Had Katrine’s birthday party on Saturday. The drive down the DVD to the beach volleball place (she wanted a beach party, and where else can you find sand in the GTA) was bad but getting the supplies in from the car was wet and freezing cold. That however was the major glitch aside from my personal inability to properly operate Glenn’s camera which resulted in having less photos to chose from for this post. (I guess we know who will not be taking most of the photos in China)
Once everyone was inside they had fun. I am so glad that we got the games organizer. She had them running races, playing soccer, dodge ball and, my favourite, tug of war. During the soccer game, some of the girls decided to dig trenchs in the sand infront of their goal for defence purposes. They then added to their teams defence by laying in the sand in front of the net or sitting doing the splits. Just like little kids playing soccer outside except with sand instead of flowers and clouds. We arranged for some extra sand time after the food and gift portion just in case they had extra energy to burn. They build a sandcastle and played volley…well, hit-the-net ball. Money well spent.
The whole week, I had agonized over wether we had enough food. We had the party in the middle of the afternoon so we decided not to go with the usual pizza. Instead, went with cake, candy, fruit and goldfish(the crackers, not real ones). Glenn kept telling me that there was more than enough. That I needed to chill. Maybe this time I will learn to listen to him because low and behold he was absolutely right.
All in all, the kids were fun to watch and I think that all of them had fun. I would declare it a good party.
Now a moment away from the discussion of parties. Snow in April!!!!! What the heck ? My spring bulbs have finally come up and are almost ready to flower and then snow! I will be really pis**d off if I don’t see those flowers because of it. I might hate all of the pollen but I like looking at spring flowers. Except for pussy willows and Easter lillies. Have you ever noticed that they are everywhere this time of year? Those big sacks of pollen on sticks and deceptively beautiful lillies with their bright yellow pollen centers. They have ruined many a perfectly good Easter for me. Enough of my rant. Enjoy the photos.
