California here we come right back where we started from: Make your own pizza at CPK

The Shops at Willow Bend have been offering free activities during the week for the Summer. It's something fun for kids to do thats inside to escape the heat. We decided to give one a try and see what it was like. OMG........insane. Apparently everyone in Frisco has kids and they weren't about to pass up an opportunity like this. We waited for what felt like eternity to make our pizza. We when we checked in we were given a wrist band to come back at a certain time. Since we had some time to kill we walked around the mall with the kids and let them play. they really are just happy to be together. Finally when it was our turn we got in the eternal line. If we had thought about it earlier and checked out what the line was like we never would have waited. Since we had already invested so much time we decided to stay. They had the line set up going all the way around one corner of the mall. They had different tables with kid friendly vendors set up through out the path. This was good and bad, it kept the kids semi entertained while waiting but, made the line go even slower as all the kids wanted to stop at EVERY table and participate in EVERY activity. Since we aren't nice parents we told the kids no way on the activities and were able to by pass a huge portion of the line. When we finally got around to the pizza making it was ridiculous. You didnt even get to go inside CPK. They had a table set up like all the vendors. Your child was handed a piece of foil with dough on it a scoop of sauce, scoop of cheese and 4 pepperoni's. They just moved the kids right along the table. They may have spent a minute total at the pizza table. Then they were shipped to another table to decorate a pizza box while there pizza was cooking. Needless to say we were less then impressed. Thankfully we have great full children who had a great time, and didn't seem to be bothered at all by the waiting. We have yet to be back to one of the other Willow Bend activities. It's a shame because they had some others that really sounded fun, if only they were run better. Oh Well, live and learn. Enjoy the pictures.