On the Thursday before Christmas, Kathleen needed to make a solo speed run to Shanghai to finish her shopping so I took a day off from work to stay with the kids (remember - you are not allowed to call it babysitting if the kids are your own children).
We rode our bikes to Times Square and went to an outlet called "Cartoony World". It is your basic arcade or the Chinese equivalent of Chuck-E-Cheese. It also works the same way. You hand over a fistfull of cash, get a bag of tokens with which to play games. The kids win tickets that can be used to purchase fabulous prizes.
We thought we were doing great after winning almost a thousand tickets. However, at the redemption center, we found that worthless itmes like thin plastic rulers and stickers all required over 200 tickets. Nonetheless, the kids were happy. We capped it off with a lunch at Subway, so they were delighted.
We rode our bikes to Times Square and went to an outlet called "Cartoony World". It is your basic arcade or the Chinese equivalent of Chuck-E-Cheese. It also works the same way. You hand over a fistfull of cash, get a bag of tokens with which to play games. The kids win tickets that can be used to purchase fabulous prizes.
We thought we were doing great after winning almost a thousand tickets. However, at the redemption center, we found that worthless itmes like thin plastic rulers and stickers all required over 200 tickets. Nonetheless, the kids were happy. We capped it off with a lunch at Subway, so they were delighted.
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