the real fiesta

Cosmic bowling with 16 of her friends was Sophie's choice for her Bday this year. It was the biggest party we've thrown so far and the good news is we really didn't have to throw it at all. The bowling alley took care of everything and all we had to do was bring a cake, candles and goody bags. It was crazy and fun and probably something we'll only do every once in a while.






I remember my sister Jami telling me about her friend who decided they were going overboard for their daughter's party when they considered draining the pool and bringing in salt water for the dolphins. That sums up about every party in our area. Spiderman parachuting into the park, petting zoos in the backyard, parent buffets, a bouncy thing is absolutely mandatory as are Disney characters (minimum of 2 per bday child) It can get crazy. Once, Sophie went to a party for a little boy in her preschool and gave him some kind of action figure as her gift. It turned out this kid was giving those exact same action figures to the boys in their goody bags. 2 of them in fact along with a bunch other stuff. That was pretty embarrassing. It's like that new movie, "Keeping up with the Steins." One kid has his bar mitzvah on a yacht so, of course, the other family tries to go above and beyond. That's pretty much how it goes in our town. Luckily we've always been way to poor to even think about entering the race. So, I hope Sophie really enjoyed the big fete, it won't likely happen again until she goes off to college.

By the way, the bowling alley guys said the slowest roll their record is .98 MPH. Let's hear it for the Big O! He's already breaking records and he's not even 4.