Pizza Palace

Saturday afternoon Chris, Justin and Kira came over. Dennis was taking Stephanie away for the night for her birthday and Valentine's Day. Stephanie let Chris use her car to drive to Des Moines. It is still hard to believe he is already driving. This is the first time we were going to get to spend time with Justin. After a year long court battle, Stephanie was finally granted custody of her 14 yr. old. He moved from South Carolina to Iowa three weeks ago.

Chase took to him right away. He played Candyland and Chutes and Ladders with him, and let Chase win! He knew how to get in good with Chase. Instead of buying Valentine Day gifts for the kids, we decided to take them all to Pizza Palace. We had never been there before, but thought we would try it out. They have video games, kid rides, duckpin bowling, laser tag and blacklight mini-golf is opening this weekend.

It turns out that they are more oriented towards older kids. There weren't a lot of kiddie rides for Chase. However, he enjoyed playing the racing games. Chris, Justin and Kira went and played laser tag, and had a blast. We stayed for 2 hours and then headed home.

One bonus of having the kids over, we had a babysitter for the night. I nursed Tony and got him in bed by 7:30. We then headed over to Melissa and Tom's. Our favorite restaurant; Crimmin's Cattle Company just recently re-opened. We were waiting until all four of us could go. We were also celebrating Valentine's Day. We arrived by 8:30pm and still had to wait 30 minutes. I really enjoyed my meal. They still have crab legs on their salad bar, which is my favorite. Tom wasn't happy with his prime rib, too much fat, but Eric and Mel loved their lemon pepper chicken. After dinner we went back to Mel and Tom's house and watched, "Airplane." A definite oldie but goodie. I have seen that movie at least 10 times, and I still cannot speak jive!