Happy Birthday! Well, technically it was a while ago, but we travelled all the way back to Virginia to celebrate a birthday. And of course if Minty is going, I might as well get some pictures to share.
This happy unicorn was holding down the balloons. Can we have a fake candle in a closed jar? It looks cool, I guess, but a real candle would not work in a closed jar, so it kind of breaks the illusion. Yay; I ruined it by explaining it!
You think we have enough pizza? There's actually a couple more on the other side of the counter to the left. We originally were going to get an event-space at a local pizza place for this, but it eventually wound up just ordering a bunch of pizzas at a home.
Ooooooh fancy ear rings. Hey, they must have cost a lot; I'm going to get a picture of 'em!
I photo-shop'd out the name, to keep this blog anonymous, and thought it might be nice to edit out the number as well! Haha ...you're welcome! (Not that it was a particularly high number or anything...)
When getting a custom Carvel Ice Cream Cake, you can't just say "all vanilla" because then you'll get vanilla crunchies. The "Win" version is: vanilla on the bottom, chocolate crunchies, and vanilla on the top. Although personally I don't mind the standard chocolate ice cream on the bottom, this is definitely superior.
I had to look it up, but Orange Roses symbolize the joy that a relationship brings you. Somebody brought them for now-obvious reasons.
Can I get my freaking sandwich already? I'm PMS-ing over here! Haha that actually stands for Professionally Made Sandwiches. Don't you love it when places have joke names? This is a real place!
This roast beef sandwich was amazing. It's been a while since I've had something on focaccia bread. And I like the little unique touch of serving the fries in a cute brown paper bag.
My friend told me this is referring to things like potato salad and pasta salad. Can you imagine getting a lettuce-type salad "by the pound"?
Our plan for the afternoon was to go play minigolf. My friend kept quiet about it, but this particular course was going to possibly bring back some "memories", so it's probably a good thing that a morning rainstorm had washed away the course. Notice the big puddle over there!
A quick internet search for an alternate, and we wound up in the Virgina Beach Town Center. Here's a map of the shoppes all around here.
We were heading into Apex Entertainment. Which is a big fancy "Chuck E. Cheese: for adults as well as kids"
We did not ask about this pretzel. Judging by the size of those dipping cups, this did not seem particularly "largest". Who's going get a lawyer over "largest pretzel"? Silly, right? They can say whatever they want about a pretzel. Virginia Beach's Most Pretzeliest Pretzel.
Rather than list all the stuff going on at Apex Entertainment, it was easier to just snap a picture of their own ad. Pick your favorite fun thing and do it.
There's the rope climbing course. Not particularly high off the ground. There's saftey harness tech involved, so I think the only way that kind of thing is worth it, is if you're super high up. Still neat to have it in here, I guess, but we passed on it.
Minigolf! It's "indoors" so the rain would have no effect on this one. Blackbeard will have to get his revenge some other way.
There were only three choices of ball colors near the register. But inside there was a vending machine, you could pay card-points at, to get a... special color? Seemed kind of unnecessary, but... okay.
Black Light glow course! The bumper walls had a very non-flat contour to them, which would make this course extremely difficult by standard minigolf um... standards.
Is that Blackbeard? On the first hole? He's got a beard, and it is black. I only thought about it now, looking at this picture, but I could have totally taken a picture of his treasure map. Although somebody has surely found the treasure by now. He should really be more careful with his treasure maps.
The black lights in the ceiling would catch your glance every once in a while, and totally blind you. Who would have thought that black lights could be so bright?
This octopus was a pain! The first player went right through it, but everyone else seemed to bounce right back out! It was a frustrating mystery.
This was probably the coolest hole in the course. The ship there is a big slope, and on the upper part is a hole that would drop the ball right next to the hole at the bottom. But if you missed, it would roll back into that gutter that drops the ball behind the random mess blocks. Nobody made it in the upper hole, but it was fun.
That octopus got us all worried that this skull would do the same thing, but it turns out a few of us managed to go through it fairly easily. It was dark in here, so trying to look into these things was impossible.
I thought I'd take a wide shot to get an idea of what the whole place looked like. But it also looks like... maybe I tool too many pictures of the minigolf course haha. At least my phone's camera was taking awesome pictures in the darkness.
There was a horrible thunder and rumbling in the ceiling. Through those cracks in it, you could tell there was a Go Kart track above us! We're probably safe, right?
Those little bumpers on the shuffleboard thing were glued down. I like the ghostly worded "hole in one" on the wall, because I'm pretty sure that each one of these holes here was specifically designed to NOT be able to get hole-in-ones. You'd need a ton of luck to actually get one.
Yarrrrr! I'm hanging out on this here pirate ship. Looks like we're nearing the end of the course.
I was trying to get a neat picture of myself lighted up in different colors thanks to the black lights. Turns out my camera filters were going to have none of that. Still, it's a cool canon fire image in the background here. BOOM! I'm a pirate!
The last hole was by far the best one. You might be able to see the hole directly under the shadow of that canon? If you miss it, it just drops into the gutter underneath, kind of like where a ski ball-miss would go. We assumed the canon would "fire" if you made it. After everybody missed the hole, our last player whacked it and instead of the pity gutter, it bounced right back out.... about a dozen times! They kept hitting it, over and over again. After a few shots it was insane! It refused to go! It got in eventually, but it was a very funny few minutes.
Final scores! Like most of mini golf places, usually there's a hole or two that completely blows up a player's score, and the winner is the one that happens to the least. We didn't read the rule on the side that caps the holes at 6, instead we capped it at 5 to keep that effect down.
Did they run out of colors around here? Who's going to remember they parked in the MAROON garage? Did Bugs Bunny name these things? What a maroon!
Cute little plushies in a claw machine! We scouted around for the prices of the play cards but I think the general concencus was that it was a poor price-to-points ratio. I can't be sure since we didn't actual get any cards or points.
Say it with me: "WHEEL"... "OF"... "FORTUNE!!!" Da-da-da da da da da-da-da! You can't escape the intro playing in your head when you see this.
Is "snatcher" a fun word to say? I think it is.
Always fun to see what the big-ticket items are in the exchange shop. I don't recall ever seeing autographed sports pictures in one of these things. This could be worth so many more tickets in the future!
I'm not going to do the math, but seeing something like an XBox for 200,000 tickets will give you an exact ticket-to-dollar amount. Of course you'll wind up paying for this thing ten-times-over, but hey, you got to play a bunch of fun games, too!
I have a friend who is a fan of the classic big-eyed alien stuff, so we briefly thought if we were going to get some card points, this might be something to save up for.
These tiny pool ball keychains were surely something that you could get enough tickets for. And if they would have had a 2-Ball one, my friend would have insisted on playing for a minute enough to get it. A long time ago, he had a stick shift car, and he drilled a hole in a 2-Ball to use as the knob on the shifter, since the blue matched the interior of the car.
How are you going to flip this machine in frustration when you start to loose? This is nothing like real Monopoly at all!
Laser Tag was just as expensive as the minigolf. $11 per person. Except that the Laser Tag game lasted only 7 minutes. A ton shorter than the minigolf we just got done playing! Did different people set the prices around here?
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