Sunday, October 30, 2011

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Monday, October 3, 2011

Planning a Last Minute Birthday party without burning a hole in Your Pocket ! ;)


So today is my son's birthday, he has turned 2 years old. Wow! time has past ! I had some high and lows with in the coming weeks before my son's birthday weekend. Money was tight but I had to do something for my baby, hes not turn this age ever again and I knew that I could manage to to plan something on short notice. My sisters good friend shared with me about two weeks prior with the thought of maybe Chuck E Cheese was a good spot to celebrate. But I will honestly admit that the few Chuck E Cheese's I have been to has been a horrible in my experiences, torn down looking business with messes in countless areas inside.

But! I found one that was the opposite of all my experiences, in the city of La Mirada. It was about a 40 min drive and traffic sucked but it was well worth the experience. I booked a reservation in advance. It was optional, I could of grabbed a free table but I was coming on a Friday and that would mean I would have to come hours in advance to hold down a table. That was way to much for me, especially with the birthday boy with me waiting for everyone's arrival. And I had a long day at school earlier that day...lol

So reserved 4 kids and 4 adults ...the package consisted..


STAR Package $12.99 Per Child
  • 2 hours of reserved table space
  • Ticket Blaster experience for the Birthday child
  • Medallion for the Birthday child
  • Inflatable crown with 8 tokens for the Birthday child
  • Chuck E. Air-walker 3ft balloon for the Birthday child
  • Star recognition in our Birthday show
  • 20 tokens per child
  • Soft drinks with free refills per child
  • 2 Slices of one-topping pizza per child
  • Festive tablecloth and plate-ware
  • Party host/hostess
  • Email invitations powered by Evite
And to top off all that, I got a limited time offer by receiving a Bonus 100 tokens for booking the party on a Friday and I also had a birthday coupon for 20 free tokens. Let me just say 4o tokens can cost 15-20 dollars and tokens go fast. lol And ...lol I had a party hostess specificly for my part. She was awesome, she threw in 4 extra cups to my package and a scoop of ice cream with 2 lit candles on top ;-)

Now I thought when I would receive pizza slices per child...it was specifically for kids, but nope ! I received my eight slices in a whole large pizza and my drinks+ bonus drinks where unlimited refill. Yay !

So again, my party package came with a crown, medallion, tokens, plus 120 free tokens(40+dollar value) a child life size chuck-e balloon and ice cream..etc

All this came to 55 dollars with tax... I cant believe I reserved 8 seats, got large pizza, 8 cups of soda and all the tokens I received for free with coupons that you can receive online or in your local newspaper. lol


The birthday cake was added at the end ! Thanks to my sister Angie, for buying my sons birthday cake. Thanks sis ! ;-) It was a lil korny , but hey we had fun! Oh, dont let me forget that our 2 hour reservation at our seats were free for the rest of the night. So my 2 hour stay got pushed to me staying 3 hrs...lol Another bonus lol

And to add, the tokens spent on games won my son 2 toys! My son was running around like a wild child, with sugar from his cake in his system lol He had a blast !



thanx for reading ! ;)