Crazy Friday Night

Last night (Friday the 8th of April in case you're reading this on a different day than Saturday) we took the kids to Mr. Biggs, our local and brand new happening place for kids. We went with our good friends Greg and Shannon and their trio of kids as well. Mr. Biggs is in this huge (10,000+ sq ft I believe) ex-manufacturing building that they've recolored and remodeled into a huge Dave and Busters/Chuck E Cheese type of place. They have a paintball arena, laster tag, go karts (not too bad go karts either, more on that later...), put put Golf course (might not have been golf though, didn't look too much into this one) as well as video games and conference rooms. For conferences and parties and the like.
The place was pretty fun but it wasn't completely finished. Some areas were blocked off or under construction still which wasn't too bad but it gave the place a little unfinished feeling. There was an area for kids and young-at-heart parents called Little Big town (get it? little=for the kids, big=for the adults!) which was a series of rooms the kids could play in, all of which had different things going on. Pretty much all of the little girls spent most of their time coming in and out of the hair salon type room. There where beauty chairs for them to sit in if someone wanted to do their hair and there were a ton of dress up/ princess-y type of clothes they could wear, and wear them my girls did. Ashlynn wasn't too interested for too long, it looked like she knew this was a big place and she had only 2 hours to take it all in. There was a little jail room were you could throw doughnuts at cops (what are we teaching today's youth!?! Madness I tell you, madness) or pretend to be in jail. There was also a huge sand-box room which a lot of the younger kids seemed to enjoy. Makenzie didn't like it at first since the sand was pretty, umm, sandy, and she didn't like how she couldn't just walk or run through it. She did eventually warm up to it though when Ashlynn and I went go-karting. There was also a pirate ship room . In the middle of the room was a mini pirate ship that had air-guns you could shoot nerf balls out of. On three of the four walls surrounding the boat were more air-guns positioned to make it seem like it was the pirates vs. the people in the walls. If you have an anxiety problem, you should probably stay out of this room. It will do nothing but give you heart trouble.
The last thing we did (and what Greg and I spent 30-40 minutes in line for, thanks for hanging out with me buddy!) was the go-karts. The line didn't seem too long but since only 5 karts were going at a time, we had a bit of a wait. Eventually we ended up in the front of the line. I was going to ride with Ashlynn and Greg was going to take his son Taylor. Right before we get to go in, a birthday party shows up. Since the employee working the go-karts usually worked laster tag, and apparently at laser tag land parties come before any and everyone else, he gave us a "sorry guys but they might have to go before you". Now this wouldn't be a problem if the problem was smaller than 50 flippin people!! It was getting close to 9:00, who throws a children's birthday party that late. I was almost tempted to shout to the party parents, "You sir(directed to no sir in particular, it just sounds better this way), are a buffoon!!" and then storm off. Right before I did, the regular go-kart employee laid the smaketh downeth. "Who's in the party? Ok, all of you? Good. You all need to wait in the back of the line like everyone else..." And off they went. They didn't complain or anything but you could feel the un-tensing of the 20-30 people behind us. Once we got in the karts we took off, the karts (after the first 20 seconds or so) were pretty zippy. Ashlynn and I were screaming and hootin and hollerin pretty much the whole time, we almost won but Greg and Taylor passed us on the inside coming out of a turn. It was a good time. Afterwards we went to Salsa Bravas which Cortney though was a buffet (had me all excited too) but alas, it was not. Just your typical Mexican restaurant. It was pretty good and the portions were good sized. After the meal, it was pushing 10:30. Time to go home. Greg and Shannon had their hands full, their kids pretty much slept thru dinner. So we said bye and parted ways. Abbey went with us too and she was (as is the case SOMETIMES, not all the time) a big help in keeping the kids busy. We had a good time. The only downside is that Mr Biggs must have a hefty mortgage to pay since admission wasn't cheap. $14.00 a person (under 2 gets in free) gets you 2 hours of playtime. Arcade games and Paintball are extra. All in all it was a good time, wonder how long it'll last with that pricing though.