Last weekend I took Goonie and our family on a double surprise trip. He didn’t know where we were heading – he just knew we had a couple surprises for him. The first part of the surprise was a trip to Chuck E. Cheese’s for dinner and to play! They had sent us a gift card for dinner and 30 free tokens! Of course we ended up buying more but it was a fun an affordable trip out!
The last time I was at Chuck E. Cheese’s I was a kid. I remember it being loud, and dark – my mother says it’s a throwback memory to visiting Show Biz Pizza (that changed to Chuck E Cheese when I was a kid). But when we first went in I was shocked at how bright and (relatively) quiet it was inside.
As we came in, they stamped our party with a black light stamp number for our party. We could only leave together, and no one could leave with Goonie except us. And added security feature for your kids that we appreciated from the get go!
When I was small and went to Chuck E. Cheese’s my favorite game was ski ball. But I was a lot shorter than I am now. Even the area for the “bigger” kids proved to be a little too short for me! After all, Chuck E. Cheese’s is for kids, not always the grown up version! This however did not stop Goonie from having a great time and playing all of the games that were down at his height.
Why did Chuck E. Cheese’s send us to dinner last week? And what was the second part of the surprise? Chuck E. Cheese’s has paired up with Free Birds the movie, and wanted to send us to the movie after we had a great dinner. You can even see Goonie in his Turkey hat (that’s the clearest shot we could get!)
I know what you’re thinking, dinner at Chuck E. Cheese’s is great for kids, but not always for adults – and what about those of us with food allergies? With the gift card Chuck E. Cheese’s gave us we were able to get a large pizza for the family, and I ordered a gluten free pizza! Yes! A gluten free pizza at Chuck E. Cheese’s! The gluten free pizza is baked in a bag, and brought out to you sealed. It even comes with it’s own pizza cutter, so you don’t have to worry about it being cross contaminated at all. It’s not gourmet, but it was nice to be able to get more than a salad while every one else is getting pizza!
After dinner we played until our tokens were gone. We had a lot of fun and even earned a lot of tickets that could be redeemed. We had to sit on the ground to feed the ticket counter (and hear it crunch) but after it was said and done we had over 400 tickets for Goonie to redeem and get goodies from the shop. Something that has updated since I was little was you can actually buy extra tickets if you wanted to upgrade to the next point level – no sad and disappointed kids going home without the prize they really wanted because they were a few tickets short!
But the night wasn’t over! We were then off to the movies to check out Owen Wilson, Amy Pohler and Woody Harrelson. It’s actually one of the few Thanksgiving movies out there! What would happen if Turkey’s could go back in time and change their fate – make sure they’re no longer on the table for Thanksgiving dinner? Would they be able to pull it off? Who is the Great Turkey? Free Birds is now in theaters and you have to see it find out the answers to these questions!
We had a great time at Chuck E. Cheese’s and watching Free Birds, you can see more pictures below:
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My tradition is leaving early or showing up late to diner with the families cause I’m greedy and work that day so I get double pay.
Taking a nap after the big meal!
Watching Football. Sadly my husband’s family who we typically celebrate with don’t watch much football.
No big traditions other than enjoying turkey dinner and pumpkin pie. But we do have family game night and draw for secret santa gifts for Christmas
We have our traditional Turkey dinner, we cook as a family while watching the Macy’s Parade on tv.
We always go to Grandma’s the day before to do all the cooking together! It is so fun having everyone help get things ready for the next day and spending some extra time together
Before we eat, everyone gives at least one thing they are thankful for.
We always watch the parade on TV. Our kids did when they were little and now our grandchildren watch it. We love seeing all of the floats!
My family runs the annual Turkey Trot 5K on Thanksgiving morning!
Relaxing and Watching the football games!
We like to Fry our Turkey and have Oyster and Corn Bread Dressing!
Sitting down to dinner together, turning on the Chirstmas lights
I like going to my parent’s house for dinner and seeing all of my extended family.
no big things just go to nanas house
My granddaughter loves Chunky Cheese!! We don’t get to go as often as she would like though, we have to live on a budget, so this would be something she would love!
Our tradition is just the family getting together for dinner.
Our tradition is to have the whole family over for dinner
We fry a turkey, make the sides, and watch sports and make a shopping list for black friday
Our tradition is to run the local Turkey Trot in our city!
Our family tradition is just have a nice dinner and tell stories about each other. 🙂
My favorite tradition is decorating with the kids. We pull out the big box and relive old stories and make new ones!
Watch the parade while we peel potatoes and football while we finish up getting dinner ready!
i love going to my grandma’s house and just relaxing with everyone & watching some of the games
just being together for a family dinner
We like going to a family movie after dinner.
Watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade together.
Getting together with family we don’t get to see that often
We go to my parents in the morning then we go to her parents in the afternoon usually for every holiday!
My favorite Thanksgiving tradition is making the meal with my Mother.
I love getting my whole family together for Thanksgiving dinner every year!!
After our Thanksgiving we all play horseshoes together and reminisce
We like making cookies together.
my favorite thing is cooking the meal!
watching the game
My fav tradition is putting the Christmas tree up that day.
watching the parade on tv and putting up the tree that night or the morning after.
We love watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade together on TV while we are cooking dinner
My favorite Thanksgiving tradition is each of us makes a statement about for what we are thankful.
We go to families houses each year and have a great time eating and hanging out
my favorite thanksgiving tradition is we go to my husbands mother house and she cooks an italian feast while we watch football, we have lasagne and stuffed shells and turkey and all the rest of the fixings, we play cards later on, its a good time, i love it
Our favorite tradition is making Thanksgiving placemats with the kids each year. They LOVE it and use them until Christmas
Our tradition is to eat lots of amazing food and spend time with the family!
My favorite tradition is getting together and eating lots of good food.
We eat a mid-afternoon lunch/dinner, play some games ,then go to bed early to hit up the black Friday sales.
our family tradition is everyone comes to my parents and we cook and eat and watch football GO cowboys.. We also play card games
i love actually sitting down as a family eating an awesome huge meal!
We love getting together and tell stories,laugh and do the dishes as we are!
Dinner with family
We exchange names for secret santa and now that my kids are older we play cards.
I love cooking with my mother in law.
After dinner and clean-up, we pull out the Black Friday ads and start making our shopping plan of attack !!
We cook and family comes over to eat and watch the football game. Lots of men in the family, lol.
We like to get the family together and eat and play games.
My daughter and I go to a movie the day after Thanksgiving.
To give thanks around the table and have a special meal together with champagne
All of our families go to my parents house for Thanksgiving and after we eat we play cards, usually Phase 10. Then we go over the shopping ads to make plans on where we’re going shopping. This year I’m afraid the new shopping hours are going to cut into family time because my sister lives an hour away and her family will leave early because our town doesn’t have that many stores.
We all go to my parents house for Thanksgiving and each of us brings sides or desserts. After we eat we paly Phase 10 and the kids usually go play on the trampoline.
It’s our Thanksgiving tradition to do a potluck with the family so sometimes some strange stuff shows up on the table.
We always watch the parade on TV and after dinner while the guys are watching football the women and children play games.
One of my favorite traditions is watching a game with my father and brothers.
Honestly, it’s just my husband and I, and we just watch the parade, nothing really exciting, at all.
Eating a good meal
We watch movies and nap after eating each year.
My favorite tradition is eating a good meal and reminiscing about old times.
Watching the parade.
Love after dinner-sitting wit sis and Mom to map out our black friday mission
My sons and their families all come to my house for dinner and we use the wedding china my mother gave me for my wedding. It’s the only time of the year we use it.
the night before thanksgiving we read a book called a cranberry thanksgiving and we bake the cranberry bread together
We do not have an Thanksgiving traditions. We use to go to my grammys every year but after she passed away the day before thanksgiving we really don’t do anything anymore.
I love being with my family and talking to them we don’t have a lot of time in our daily lifes to do that
Getting all together for dinner and it’s the one time a year we have cranberry sauce!
We watch movies the night before Thanksgiving and play cards. It makes it a cozy atmosphere before the chaos the next day.
We watch the Peanuts thanksgiving specials.
our Thanksgiving tradition is a big Dinner and a day of football