We high-fived at the end, then it was off to the next amusement. Skee-ball is a marvelously violent carny game targetting heavy wooden grapefruit at graduated targets. There's very little skill involved, so subsequently, it's next to impossible to actually improve your score by anything other than a lucky shot. After a particularly good round, I suggested Greta come back to the table. Yeah, and your boss is a seven foot tall gray rodent in tee shirt, jeans and a baseball cap.
Pizza comes with a clutch of discounted tokens, so almost everybody orders pizza.
Then the curtains close, and an actor in a character suit comes out to mime the birthday schtik against a canned soundtrack. Kids play TV studio against a bluescreen or pan and zoom a hidden camera at dad, back at the booth, reading a magazine and picking his teeth. The tokens are sort of a blessing, since the form-factor limits the amount of commerce a kid could conceivably transact in such a place. The girls were still jacked-up from all the stimulation, but they'd had enough.