Of course, the big thing is playing the various games at Chuck E Cheese, earning little tickets or tokens that you can 'cash in' for some valuable prize.
The four of us played pinball games and ski-ball and the rest of it.
We played a long time and had seemingly hundreds of tickets. My job, was keeping track of the tickets and then helped counsel the kids on what to do with all the 'cash.'
My suggestion, let's get something that commemorates the occasion, but could also increase in value.
So we bought the 'Bubble Pen.' It's a combo of pen and bubble maker.
But, no, the kids never blew any bubbles with it.
They never took a note in class or even jotted a note for the parents to leave on the fridge door.
It's been in its case ever since. The 'water' for bubbles evaporated or leaked out a long time ago... but Chuck stands tall in its case.
The thought has crossed my mind to place it on eBay sometime to see if someone else looking to re-live the nostalgia of the early 2000s would just 'have to have it,' but so far it sits on our shelf.
Chuck looks at me with that silly grin and a taunting look that seems to ask what in the world we (or I) were thinking leaving a perfectly nice toy in its wrapper for more than a decade.
(I watch American Pickers every week, thinking someday they will remark how great it is that folks leave things in the package and hopefully somebody is preparing for the Chuck E boom in the middle of the 21st Century. When it comes, I'll be ready... and it's something special to put in the estate plan!)
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