purple-mouse!

over the past few months,
jane and i have become experts
on the local chuck e. cheese scene.
did you know that they are clean and nice now?
we’ve been to four and they are all super-clean.
which is really cool-
because when i went to chuck e. cheese
as a kid in modesto,
it was always dark and dirty everywhere.
did you know that chuck e. cheese
started right here in san jose?
did you know that the first owner
was the head of atari?
he wanted to have a place
where he could showcase all of his games.
back in the day,
the only place you could play videogames
was at 7-11- and they only had like 2 per store.
chuck e. cheese had all of them.
did you know that chuck USED to be a rat,
but now he’s a mouse?
i don’t see how either are kid-friendly,
but that the subject of a future blog:
“why are there so many mice in kid entertainment?”
also- did you know its free to get in?
did you know that every game is only 1 token?
that’s pretty rare-
when you consider
that the rides at the jungle are 2 tokens
and the rides at the mall are 3 quarters!
plus they give out double tokens in coupons
so we can take 5 bucks over there and play for hours.

anyhow-
we’ve been to the chuck e. cheese on kooser,
on the east side (its HUGE!)
the one in gilroy
and the one in cupertino.
today jane decided
that she likes the gilroy one the best.
my favorite is the big one on the east side.
yesterday we actually went to two different
chuck e. cheese’s.
i was afraid that they would think
that i was a kidnapper
because when we entered the second one,
we still had stamps on our hands from the first one!
this has been a fun little quest-
its fun for me to watch my kid run around and play
and its fun to remember doing that when i was younger
at chuck e. cheese.
today was a big highlight for us-
we got to MEET chuck e. cheese
AND give him a high five,
AND take a picture with him!
whoa!




now i think we need a little break.
we’ve gotten to the point where we can walk in,
see all of the lights and games,
hear all of the music and decide that we’re bored already.
we’ve become junior highers!