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Had some major excitement at my house last night. I brought home three bags of Calbee baseball chips from work. The kids and I have been putting the set together bag by bag this year which has been great fun. One thing that I have discovered in the process is that putting a set of Calbee cards together that way is made massively easier if you have three mouths to eat the chips rather than just one. I've tried putting sets together on my own a few times in the past and it always ended up with my house overflowing with bags of potato chips that I just couldn't eat because there were too many of them. We've actually got about 3/4 of the base set put together now, which is pretty good.
The excitement of opening bags has been waning recently though as we inevitably are getting mostly doubles now. But there was one thing that was keeping our enthusiasm up - the chase for a Lucky Card.
As I've written about on here before, Lucky Cards are cards that you can redeem for prizes. This year's Lucky Card will get you a card album, which is an extremely enticing prize for a seven or four year old kid. They've been wanting one of these ever since we opened the first bag but so far we've been out of luck.
Until last night that is. After dinner and after my son did his homework, I gave him one of the bags to open. He opened up the cards and immediately started bouncing off the walls screaming "I got a Lucky Card!!!!!!" in excitement. Seeing a kid get a card he really wanted like that is an impressive thing to behold. It reminded me of my own childhood when I'd get a Don Mattingly in a pack. I had my camera handy so I snapped some pictures of his moment of victory.
So this morning I stopped off at the post office to buy a pre-paid postcard. We have to cut out a tab on the Lucky Card, glue it to the postcard and mail it to Calbee, and within a month they say they'll have our card album at the door. That is so great since it means the excitement of the chase for a Lucky Card is now replaced by the excitement of the wait for a package to arrive in the mail. He'll be checking that mailbox every day when he comes home from school for the next few weeks until the day it arrives.
This makes me really psyched about Calbee Series 2, which should be hitting the stores later this month and will mean a whole new chance to chase the Lucky Card in that one for whatever prize they'll be giving out that time.
