Running away to play

Spring break at our house is more like “spring cleaning”.  To say my kids aren’t fans would be the understatement of this century.  We spent all day Wednesday cleaning (Monday was St. Patty’s and Hoots, Tuesday was celebrating getting Frozen by watching it twice…then Wednesday we finally got around to cleaning for half a day…not bad in my book).  But, today we were invited to celebrate the birthday of one of our friends.  Spring cleaning had to wait another day!  I kidnapped the kids…didn’t tell them where we were going…and they were so excited it was to play with the S boys.
Zack hasn’t ever really been to Chuck E Cheese and he was in absolute HEAVEN!

Andrew would not risking putting his tickets and coins down to play skeeball with his right hand.  It wasn’t like Chuck E Cheese was busy…it was just my four kids and the S’s seven.  He would have been safe.

Ball+Zack=totally engrossment.  This game kept him busy for about 20 minutes.  He cried when Ben put the last ball in the pockets.  I gave him another coin and he was a happy camper again. 

This kid wins so many tickets!

Still busy….

New game that is totally awesome.

Zack finds another game to keep him busy.

How perfect is this picture?!?!

Crazy D!

While I was chatting with D we didn’t notice that little T had picked up a rice Krispy treat and was happily chomping away!  He was pretty upset when he was found out and it was taken away!

We ended up staying there for almost 4 hours.  We ran out of tokens after the first hour..but the kids just had a blast doing whatever they did.  D and I were busy chatting and as it got busier I think other parents took pity on these poor kids with no tokens.  I don’t know how else they came up with more tokens and tickets!
Andrew is my clever little guy.  After checking each game for tokens, then rechecking for left tickets, he decided to look under all the machines to see if any tokens or tickets had fallen under them.  He hit the jackpot when he found a printout for over 350 tickets!  I made him turn it into lost and found.  Thankfully the worker made a big deal about how honest he was and gave him the tickets.  Andrew was so excited, but wouldn’t cash them in until he had checked under all the other machines.  The other boys found out what had happened and I don’t think Chuck E Cheese has ever been left cleaner!
We had a blast running away from our messy house for a few hours.  It wore us out…so we had to watch frozen again.  I think next year I’ll plan spring cleaning a little different…and instead of tackling the whole house all at once (read destroy multiple rooms) I’ll go room by room.
So tomorrow’s forecast calls for Spring cleaning…minus me