A Pirate's 5th Birthday!

This is the lobby when you first walk in....

This is the pirate coming to life, and Reed hiding his eyes because he wants to watch, but it's just too scary :o)

So here we are trying to get a picture with him and the pirate in the background

He really has a death grip on me :o)

Unwrapping Prince Caspian!

And swords to play that he is Peter (or Caspian)

Playing Guitar Hero with Aunt Jennafer (Uncle Chance is helping)

Reed got to go on quite an amazing (and sometimes scary) adventure for his 5th birthday. We took him to the Pirate Island Wednesday night for pizza and a good time with family, we had never been to this place before and I was thinking it would be another of those cheesey little kid places, boy was I wrong! This place was GREAT! You walk in and it looks like you are entering a pirate cove, the whole place is decked out to look like you are in the throws of a pirate lair. The waiters are dressed up like pirates and they even speak like one, every 20-30 minutes there are lightning flashes (strobe lights) and the skeletons come to life and talk. (the one in the lobby had the kids fascinated and when it came to life they couldn't take their eyes off him. After it went back to sleep I tried to get Reed to stand in front of it so I could get his picture and he nearly peed his pants! He was NOT going to turn his back on that thing! So I had to hold him (while he was clinging as tightly as possible to me) while Jeff took our picture. You can kinda see the skeleton pirate in the background. I had to peel him off me just so we could go get our seats! :o) I don't know why but it made me laugh :o) the poor kid, but he still had a great time! He was just very weary of any of the skeletons that came to life that were near him :o) The service there was great and so was the price! I was expecting to pay twice what we ended up paying! I can't wait to take them there again! The arcade had things like Guitar hero, and a rifle range, along with a boxing thing that Jeff liked, really I am thinking of trying to get Reed's friends from school to go back with him. The prizes are within a reasonable range too! Only 100-300 tickets to get the big prizes (and that is easy to get)!

For the past month Reed has been asking for the Narnia Prince Caspian movie, as he recently discovered it and would watch it every day if I let him. He would say "mom I really want the PC movie for my birthday" over and over and over again. So the weekend before I remember that I needed to order it, fortunately it came within 3 days of ordering it :o) Jeff also found a sword and shield at Toys R Us and he was super excited that now he can look like Peter!