Current mood: accomplished
I told you we would find a way to come up with an adventure this weekend. It is never a dull moment in the Cardoso house thats for sure.
Well today started like any other day... kind of lazy and nothing really great happening. Then Adrian woke up and came downstairs. He asked me if I had checked my email and I told him no. He said he sent me an email to see if I wanted to check out a new place he heard about. It was a place called "John's Incredible Pizza Co.". It is a cross between Dave and Busters and Chuck E Cheese. I quickly jumped on the website and checked it out and it looked soooo cool!!!! It was so much bigger (and cleaner) than Chuck E Cheese and had more rides and games!! We HAD to check it out! The other good thing was, it was nearby in Riverside (city).
So after Mia's nap we all go ready and zoomed down there. It was SO HOT again today and driving through Moreno Valley it peaked at 107!!! Yikes! I was glad that the pizza place was indoors.
It wasn't to hard to get to and only took us about 20 mins. Once we got there and went inside, the first thing we noticed is how HUGE the place was and though there were tons of people it wasn't crowded. There was tons of space to walk around and not bump into screaming kids or pushy parents! NICE!!!!!
It only cost Adrian and myself $9 a piece to get in and Mia was free. They also had an all you can eat buffet!!! So we walked around a bit then decided to eat. I was a bit leery about how the food would taste but to my surprise it was actually really good!!! Tons of variety and the quality was pretty good! They had about 5 different rooms you could eat in, each with its own theme. So if one room area was to packed you could go to another. We decided on the music video room and grabbed a booth there.
Mia really wasn't to interested in eating, she wanted to go on the rides and play games. So to entertain herself while Mama and Dada ate, she bounced on the booth like if it was one of her jumpers! haha
After we got stuffed we walked over to the games and rides area. The first ride we put Mia on was the tiny carolsel. She LOVED it and rode it a good 5-6 times before we had to drag her off to check out other things. Of course she wasn't to pleased with this, but was quickly distracted by all the other neat things to check out. She rode a tiny little train but refused to ride a tiny little dragon (not sure why). We had her play the "pound the gopher with the hammer" game but wasn't to interested in that either. We showed her a few more games like the "claw game" and later took her to play skeet ball. She actually enjoyed this, she loved throwing the balls up the ramp but she couldn't get them all the way up. Soon balls were flying everywhere!!! including the game next to us!! haha
Then we saw a train roller coaster!!! It really didn't have dips but it was REALLY fast and I mean FAST!!! Mia wanted to get on it so Dada took her. Sure enough that thing zoomed around like no body's business. Even Adrian said it was a bit fast, but Mia loved it! She screamed and cheered smiled. She refused to get off of it and made Dada take her on it again!!! haha She ended up riding that roller coaster 5 times! Poor Dada! haha
There were some other games we had her play. Like a bowling game and one of those air pressured gun games. She had so much fun and was smiling so much. They even had a playground area with slides and other rides, and she got to play there as well.
Soon I got tired. My tummy started to hurt from being on my feet to long so I had to leave Adrian and Mia while I sat down back at the food area. While I was gone, they got on the train one last time then turned in their tickets to get prizes. When they found me, Mia was holding a Giant red balloon on a stick, wearing a glitter bracelet and had a pink punch hand in one hand. She was so happy, until we sat down. She wanted to keep exploring but Mama and Dada were tired! We munched out a bit more then looked at the clock. Could you believe we were there for 4 hours!!!!! I didn't even seem that long!! Guess time really does fly by when you are having fun!!!
So after we munched it was time to go. Mia was not to happy about it but it was near her bedtime so she had no choice. We said byebye to John's and headed back home. Now Adrian is upstairs with her putting her to bed. I think we will join her soon... all of us are pooped!
Wow what a fun filled day. I love days where we do spur of the moment unplanned things and they work out!! Sure makes up for the horrible time we had at the company picnic yesterday!! haha I can't wait to go back to John's infact we already signed up as VIP members!!
