Celebrating 10

This year Chase decided he didn't want a party but rather just to spend the day with one of his best friends.  He decided he wanted to go see the Movie Hotel Transylvania and out to dinner.  I picked the kids and Chase's friend up from school on Friday and we headed out for a night of fun.  Since school is out earlier on Friday we had a little time before the movie started so I told them we were going shopping.  Chase was appalled, until I told him they were on a shopping challenge.  They were given 10 challenges to complete.

I have never seen 2 kids laugh and have so much fun in a store before.  All of the challenges they had to complete had to do with the number 10 (since we were celebrating 10 of course).

Some of the challenges they had to complete: Find something with the number 10 on, find something to wear in a size 10, find something rated ages 10 and up, find something costing exactly 10 dollars, put on 10 items, find something in a 10 pack, strike a pose in front of a mirror for 10 seconds, and find a card for a 10 year old.  They never did find something with the word ten on, so we changed it to find something every 10 year old would love to have  They both chose a stuffed Chewbacca.  This was the perfect amount of time to run off some energy before the movie. 

I made them each some Monster Munch to enjoy during the movie including some glow in the dark fangs to enjoy with the show.  It was a cute movie, we all enjoyed.

After the movie we had planned to go to dinner, but no one was very hungry.  So, we headed home and Chase opened his present from his friend Dani.  She bought him a new Skylanders Wii game with some action figures that interact with the game. 

Before we lost them to the video game we gave Chase a game he has been bugging me to buy him all summer...Bean Boozled.  It is a box of jelly beans with some flavors you would not believe.  I think it is based off of the Harry Potter jelly beans (Bertie Bott's every flavor beans).  They both LOVE Harry Potter and so Chase was dying to get this challenge to do with his friend.

Inside the game is a spinner that tells you what bean you "might" get.  Their are two flavors that look exactly the same, one tasting good, and one that is VERY bad.  Some of the choices were:  peach OR barf, berry blue OR toothpaste, butter popcorn OR Rotten egg, chocolate pudding OR canned dog food.  You get the idea.  So we started the game with the spinner of luck....

Not sure how many "good" beans there are in the box.  Chase was up first with the chance of getting Carmel corn OR moldy cheese.  The odds were not in his favor...

 These kids were brave, I'll give them that.  Sometimes it took a second or two to really get the taste.

 Once it hit, there was no denying you did not get tutti-frutti, but STINKY SOCKS!

Even Sadi was excited to play this game which surprised me.  She was hoping for lime...but it was lawn clippings instead!

I think the fun of the game was laughing at everyone else.  They even convinced Matt to get in on the "fun".  He chose to gamble at getting licorice....instead he got SKUNK SPRAY!  Side note:  The smell does not leave your breath for a very long time.

Occasionally someone dodged a bullet and got a good flavored bean.  I love the look on their face when it wasn't bad, it was almost disbelief.

After having enough bean boozling the kids retreated to the living room where they were lost in another world for the rest of the night.