oh, behold our future....

Craig and I decided that Katie's last night in town should be fun, so the three of us headed to Dave and Buster's for dinner and "gambling".

The highlights of the night include the following:
1) the waiter up-selling Craig on everything...(Craig never allows himself to get up sold, but that night was different.)

2) The Flaming Finger! It not only has an hilarious name, but it's also tons of fun. Flaming Finger lures you in, thinking that you will win the game and every time you're so CLOSE...but you lose. The object of the game is to trace your finger through a maze while time ticks away. You have, like 18 seconds, to complete the maze, and time ticks away faster and faster and faster, especially when you get towards the end of the maze! Every time, you lose! But the game is so insanely fun that you keep swiping your card and wasting your money. We went back and forth to this game and you know what? CRAIG WON! Tickets came spilling out and spilling out and spilling out because HE WON THE JACKPOT!!!! Yes folks, Craig beat the Flaming Finger.

3) The Compatibility Game. Katie kept talking about this really fun game that she played at SNAP with her boyfriend that tested your compatibility with another person. (side note: SNAP is no longer held in the school's cafeteria, rather, it is held off-campus at someplace like Dave and Buster's. I still thought our SNAP was really, really fun). At any rate, I am not a big fan of all the gun games, partially because I really stink at them, and also because I am greedy and want to play the games that give you lots and lots of tickets - the gun games sometimes don't even give you tickets. So, Katie and Craig fired up a game and by accident, it was the Compatibility Game! You basically go through the wilderness fighting off giant bugs, amphibians, and other forest creatures. If you kill a bug that would have gotten your partner, then you made a "love shot." I swapped out with Craig at one point. My personal favorite was swatting giant frogs with boat oars. It was really funny. Sadly, in the end, Katie and I were not compatible...

4) I didn't think the night could get much better until I saw The Gene Machine. It was such a horrible concept that I had to try it out! You could choose one of two options. Option A: choose and animal to morph with you to produce something like this...Here's what The Gene Machine has to say about option A: "See the magic for yourself. Indulge and find the real you. Choose from a host of options and watch as you Morph into your selection. Find your Fantasy world." (I copied and pasted the exact text, grammar errors and all. )

Craig and I chose to skip the fantasy world because there was obviously no creativity in option A, so we (or rather, uhm, I) chose option B: to see your future child. The machine took our pictures and morphed them into a baby. Before you look the horrific future child we spawn, I will share with you what The Gene Machine has to say about option B: "See your future child. Morph with a mate or one of our video models. Make your selections and see the resemblance. Every picture will be a cherished Souvenir."

And behold, our son and cherished souvenir, complete with a globular chin. (and please excuse my shocked face...)
Seriously, click on the picture and zoom in to see the weird child! That chin is hideous!

Can anyone guess what our last game was?

Katie and I watched anxiously as Craig used our last Dave and Buster's money on one last game of Flaming Finger...he lost. Didn't matter anyway, the machine was out of tickets. Wonder how that happened?