Arcade: First Saturday a Success!

Okay, to start off with, a lot of people have been asking for photo updates. So, I have created a flickr photo set that I will be adding photos to. Here it is!

I got to my parents house at about 9:30 Saturday morning and Zach and I started working. We learned very quickly that we had very different approaches to the project, but it ended up working out. We spend the entire day planning, talking about things, what part should be what size, drawing, looking at other cabs online, etc. We decided about noon that we needed to go out and do a little research on a few cab related things. So, we tried to find arcade cabinets and pizza. We ended up 2 for 2 :) Regal Cinemas didn't have any arcade machines with joysticks, but Bullwinkle's did. We got our measurements and moved on to pizza. I haven't had pizza hut pan crust meat lover's pizza and cheesy break sticks for a LONG time...it was great!

Oh, k, back to the cabinet, sorry ;) After all the research and planning all day we finally knew what we needed to buy, so we headed off to Home Depot. We got all of our wood for the project and our polycarbonate thermoplastic. It was loads of fun. The lady at the checkout couldn't believe what we were building. Her response was, "What, are you guys tripp'n?!"

So now we have a garage filled with wood, all our plans for building it, and a lot of excitement and motivation :) Hopefully I will be blogging another update soon :)