The six adults I went with had a great time. It was myself, husband (in our early 40s), my dad and stepmother (early 70s and late 60s) and my in-laws (early 70s). I wanted some place a bit fun but not in a park since my dad and stepmother didn't have park tickets (they surprised my in-laws by coming just for a couple of meals).
My father is THE biggest grump int he entire world. Others say members of their families are grumpy but my father takes the cake. The highest praise I have ever heard him give was "that's was neat". And that only a few times in my life.
His first glance at Whispering Canyon was that we would never get seated. And then when we were seated in less than ten minutes, he said that it wasn't 'whispering" by any stretch of the imagination. I told him to relax and have fun. The in-laws who are very reserved enjoyed the antics of others. What did my dad do? He asked the waiter why we had crayons on the table but nothing to color. So the waiter brought over coloring sheets for us. My grumpy old dad sat there for the entire meal and colored that sheets! He actually got a "reward" certificate at the end. Which he insisted on taking home with him.
It's all on how you go into the dinner. If you think it's going to be noisy, loud and stupid, it will be. If you think you are going to have a decent time, you will.
The parental units had no idea what they were getting into. At the end, my dad walked proudly out with his coloring certificate and my stepmother was doing the hokey-pokey with everyone else and all of us were waving the towels.
And my mother-in-law who finds something to complain about with every meal, didn't say anything about the food. And she would have if anything was substandard on her very long list of unacceptible food items.
