Hapy Birthday- again

Posted on 5/29/2007 by

Since we were all in Palm Springs together we celebrated Avery’s birthday- again. We went to Chuck E Cheese. This was a remodeled one, and it was fancy. There was a stage with a “green screen” for the birthday parties, there was DJ booth with Chuck spinning some tunes and little TVs for the kids to “edit” the music videos.

We had a coupon for pizza, drinks and 100 tokens. Yes, they still use tokens there. I definitely like the tokens better than the card. 100 tokens kept 3 kids busy for 2 hours!

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  • http://www.shouldbesleeping.blogspot.com allison

    careful she might want that to be a yearly tradition…..that’s my kind of celebrating…i personally do a birthday month.

  • Sara Filly

    Why did they do away with the tokens?
    I had been saving mine up for years, and then I went to play with my nephews and poof! No more! Boo hoo!

  • Sara

    I like that- a birthday month!! Sounds good to me.

  • Sara

    I know! I hate the card. That what was so great about this CEC in PS. The kids had to come back after spending each token to get another one.

  • http://freepressblog.org JaredB

    I think you hit the nail on the head: it’s easier for the kids to spend more money faster this way. They’d probably also say it’s easier for the kids not to lose a single card than a cup full of coins that spills as they run around, but I think the real reason is the extra money they probably make.

  • http://freepressblog.org JaredB

    Also, with the cards they can track what you spend the tokens on, so they can use that info to do all sorts of things; plan the store layout better, sell stuff to you more effectively, etc.