Surprise Sunday Drive

We had some Christmas "fun money" to spend and so Saturday night Tom and I made a fast plan to surprise the kids after church on Sunday and go to Chuck E Cheese. (this is a place they see advertised on PBSkids and have been wanting to go to forever!)  So after church we said we were going on a drive and so sit back and relax.  We didn't tell them where we going...it's a 2 hour trip to Spokane where Chuck E Cheese is...so we had lots of questions of where we were going and lots of guesses.  This is a road we've traveled enough to see family that they were recognizing it....and we got close to Plummer(where my dad works) and they all thought we were going there...nope....we got closer to Spokane and they thought for sure we were going to see Uncle Dan and Aunt Lindsey(my brother and sister live in Spokane)...we said Nope again...so they were really starting to wonder when we got to Spokane and headed down a different road. 

I was looking on the left side of the road and Tom saw it on the right side...so luckily there was no traffic cause he cut across 3 lanes of traffic to make it into the entrance...I'm sure we startled the people in the car that was trying to exit!  But as soon as we got into the parking lot...all the kids started saying OH MY WE ARE GOING TO CHUCK E CHEESE!!!  REALLY..WE ARE GOING HERE!!  OH WOW....

It was great...they were SO excited!  Here are some pictures of them having some fun ;)



Clara and her princess wave...so cute!



DJ doing his best at driving a snowmobile

Kolby pedaling fast to fly the helicopter 

Kassidy taking a drive

They stamp your hand when you enter so your family all leaves together right- so this guy stamped all of our arms....well here's another weekend funny.  We went to leave and the girl is checking our numbers and well...Kassidy's number can be found nowhere --they checked both hands up and down all the arms....by now there were people starting to line up behind us.  The girl said, you'll have to wait so I can get the manager....so we joked with the people behind us...that they thought we were taking a kid....They said..yeah casue you know she doesn't look anything like you guys....ha such a funny, odd, but I guess good situation...I think Kassidy was oblivious to it all..cause they were all intrigued with their little trinkets they had won ;)  So the guy who stamped us when we came in and the manager(who happened to be the same lady who helped us get the trinkets) came over and asked Kassidy "Is this your mommy?" Of course Kassidy said yes...and off we went.  So funny...but I guess they are doing their job!  We joked again with the people outsided saying --well they let us take her ;) They laughed ;)

All in all it was a great time and a very fun surprise for the kids!!  And they all want to go again!