Natalie was completely overwhelmed the minute we walked in, (honestly, I was too!)
We ordered our pizza, and got our tokens. A handful was enough for our purposes. Mostly we just rode the little rides - kinda like what you find in the grocery store for a penny.
We also played a few games.
This bus was Natalie's favorite, and it was cool because she could just hop on the back when other kids were riding. She just wanted to talk on the phone anyway!
Riding with Barney was neat too.
And the pizza was actually pretty good!
Right before we left Natalie decided she just had to climb up into this elevated play structure.
When she was too little to get her legs up high enough to climb up I told her it was for big kids, (it was a no school day so there were about 50 elementary kids already climbing in the structure and clogging the slide down.) Unfortunately a friendly pair of 8 or 9 year old girls took it upon themselves to help Natalie up. I asked them to please make sure to help her down as well. Which they didn't. I can't blame them entirely... she refuses to go down most slides pretty adamantly these days, and they did try a few times to get her to come down. But she insisted on staying up there and wandering around the gerbil maze. Eventually, (20 minutes later or so) a chaperon with one of the school groups bussed in lent me a 10-year-old boy named Alex. I described Natalie to him and what she was wearing, and he went up in search. A few minutes later he came down (not the slide), with her under his arm. The chaperon had to clear the kids from the entrance tube for them. They were camped out, and Natalie was just not bold enough to make her way past them alone.
We ordered our pizza, and got our tokens. A handful was enough for our purposes. Mostly we just rode the little rides - kinda like what you find in the grocery store for a penny. 
We also played a few games. 
This bus was Natalie's favorite, and it was cool because she could just hop on the back when other kids were riding. She just wanted to talk on the phone anyway!
Riding with Barney was neat too. 
And the pizza was actually pretty good! 
Right before we left Natalie decided she just had to climb up into this elevated play structure. 
When she was too little to get her legs up high enough to climb up I told her it was for big kids, (it was a no school day so there were about 50 elementary kids already climbing in the structure and clogging the slide down.) Unfortunately a friendly pair of 8 or 9 year old girls took it upon themselves to help Natalie up. I asked them to please make sure to help her down as well. Which they didn't. I can't blame them entirely... she refuses to go down most slides pretty adamantly these days, and they did try a few times to get her to come down. But she insisted on staying up there and wandering around the gerbil maze. Eventually, (20 minutes later or so) a chaperon with one of the school groups bussed in lent me a 10-year-old boy named Alex. I described Natalie to him and what she was wearing, and he went up in search. A few minutes later he came down (not the slide), with her under his arm. The chaperon had to clear the kids from the entrance tube for them. They were camped out, and Natalie was just not bold enough to make her way past them alone. She was perfectly happy and told me it was fun up there, and all the things she had played with. I was definitely frazzled, and needed a nap just as much as she did!! I don't think we'll be heading back to Chuck E. Cheese any time soon!
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