A blast at The Blast!

For the girl's birthday this year, we decided to do a party with her classmates instead of a big family one. After noting we did not want 20 five and six year olds running crazy in our house, we chose to go to “The Blast”. It is an indoor playground, kind of like McDonalds, but about four times the size. We invited about ten, to make the pricing manageable, and no one seemed to care that the other students weren't there. They provided a cake and use of a party room. I thought this seemed like a great option, better than Chuck E. Cheese, which can get expensive with all the tokens.

The only thing was that there were two other parties going on at the same time, and others that just walked in. It was an absolute zoo, but the kids had an extremely fun time.

The girl got many, many nice new toys, most of which came lots of small pieces, unsuitable for the boy to play with. I can just imaging him eating some Barbie shoe like her cousin did about a year ago, and think nothing about it. I packed away some of her toys while she wasn't looking, and will save them for another holiday, and she will hopefully see them as new. I will give one to her for Christmas, and then for Easter and any other reason to be proud of her, like when the next report card comes.

We did end up having a celebration with the family, but it was just immediate family. We went directly after we left The Blast (where clean up was a breeze, since there we didn't have to do a thing) we went to our favorite pizza place, the Ole Piper Inn. My parents, my MIL, and SIL were there, FIL was out of town with family hunting. My sister had a very tired girl to deal with; she just went home when the party was over.

Daughter got some more presents at the restaurant, and MIL brought a very chocolately cookies-n-cream cake. She mostly got clothes, and she was very excited about them, especially because she got a fancy new “party dress” and a shirt with Hello Kitty on it.

Over all, it was a crazy, busy day and the girl was extremely satisfied with it, which I guess is the biggest reason we did all this.