Friday, March 5, 2010

Where a Kid Can Be a Kid

My roommate Peter and I have birthdays that are only a week and a half apart (same age too), so he suggested that we have a combined birthday party. "Let's go to Chuck E. Cheese!" was the first thing that popped out of my mouth. I had never been there (I nearly went for my sister's birthday in December '08, but we ditched that plan when my nephew spent the day throwing up) and I thought that after 29 years I really ought to see what all the fuss was about.

I'm not going to lie - I suspected that the party might bomb (though I wasn't half as skeptical as Peter), especially upon first entering the premises and spying one of my professors inside. The sight of this big, intimidating Wagnerian bass suddenly made me feel a little silly as a twenty-something celebrating my birthday at Chuck E. Cheese. Usually I try to carry myself with a little more dignity around the voice faculty, but then I saw him horsing around with his little boy I felt a lot less ridiculous. Overall the party turned out to be pretty fun. In retrospect, I need not have worried - how can you not enjoy yourself when skee-ball is involved?

Mr. E. Cheese himself brought Peter and me a cake

My peeps around the ticket redemption machine

Speaking of birthdays, the song "Backwards Down the Number Line" by Phish has become my favorite birthday song. According to some quick Googling, the band premiered the song in concert on my birthday last year - neato, no?

5 comments:

Elizabeth Downie said...

That was a lot of fun. :) I'm glad to be one of your peeps.

Happy birthday!!

Amy said...

Hey, that's my new favorite birthday song too! Coincidence? Um, probably not.

Glad the day-before-your-birthday Chuck E. Cheese celebration was everything you'd hoped it would be, and have a wonderful actual birthday today :).

Jess said...

I am sad that I missed the birthday festivities. I think it would be fun to go to a modern Chuck E. Cheese without the creepy animatronics like Show Biz had. Happy Belated Birthday!

Jan said...

At least you didn't wait until you were in your 60's to check out Chuck E. Cheese's! We celebrated Dad's birthday with Emily and the boys in 2008 with Chuck. It was our first and only experience so far, but it brought back memories of celebrating a birthday at the pizza place in Colonial Square that was a Chuck E. Cheese's wanna-be.

Cabeça do Denis said...

what the crap is that beard on yer face, laddie? hahaha, twas hard ter find ya. How're ya doing Mr walrus? I've been trying ter find ya in Facebook for a long time... I'm there, just search for me!