This year, Priya's birthday fell on the last weekend of school year before the start of the summer holidays. Hence, she invited her friends over for a party the week before. We were done with the preparations and were ready around 1400 hrs when the first group arrived.
Some of the parents stayed a while to talk about the weather and when they left the party began.
First it was Priya's turn to close her eyes so that her friends could hide their presents in and around the house. She found all the presents with their tips. Then, they started with decorating the piece of cake they had in front of them with, whipped cream, chocolate and colour sprinkles, m&ms, fruits and so on.
Then we divided the group into 2 and the first group went with me and marked along the way some signs for the second group to follow after 20 minutes. Well, my group decided to give them a hard time, where Jackie needed to call me twice for tips (of course, my team were amused that they did a good job). At the final point, we marked on the ground to look for us.
We found a best place to hide as you see in the picture below. Jackie's team did not succeed in finding the hiding group and I gave them a tip.
On the way back, they had so much fun that they were not looking 'normal' anymore. Ha! Ha!
It was time to give away small gifts to the her friends. I had to hold all the cards with the names of the kids and each of them need to pull the cord through the house to a place where they would end up (the cord has different lengths). At the end Jackie hung the presents randomly.
They were delighted with their presents and played further till their parents arrived to pick some of them up and the rest we brought them home with the bicycles.
Her actual birthday was celebrated on the 4th. July, 2009 with family members and neighbours. We bought a whipped cream cake and Jackie made the "Jackie's Famous Chocolate Cake' again.
When the family members arrived, Jan conducted the orchestra to ensure the birthday songs were sung properly (after 30, 178 times singing these songs throughout his life time, he thought it was finally time to conduct the orchestra. Ha! Ha!).
It was a brilliant weather and we sat in the garden to have the snacks and bites with beverages (alcohol and non-alcohol).
In the meantime, Priya and Ruben took a break while consuming a nice ice-cream.
Then we divided the group into 2 and the first group went with me and marked along the way some signs for the second group to follow after 20 minutes. Well, my group decided to give them a hard time, where Jackie needed to call me twice for tips (of course, my team were amused that they did a good job). At the final point, we marked on the ground to look for us.
We found a best place to hide as you see in the picture below. Jackie's team did not succeed in finding the hiding group and I gave them a tip.
We had later some chips and drinks before started playing various games in the dunes. It was a sunny weather.
On the way back, they had so much fun that they were not looking 'normal' anymore. Ha! Ha!
Back at home we ate pan-cakes and french fries.
It was time to give away small gifts to the her friends. I had to hold all the cards with the names of the kids and each of them need to pull the cord through the house to a place where they would end up (the cord has different lengths). At the end Jackie hung the presents randomly.
They were delighted with their presents and played further till their parents arrived to pick some of them up and the rest we brought them home with the bicycles.
Her actual birthday was celebrated on the 4th. July, 2009 with family members and neighbours. We bought a whipped cream cake and Jackie made the "Jackie's Famous Chocolate Cake' again.
When the family members arrived, Jan conducted the orchestra to ensure the birthday songs were sung properly (after 30, 178 times singing these songs throughout his life time, he thought it was finally time to conduct the orchestra. Ha! Ha!).
It was a brilliant weather and we sat in the garden to have the snacks and bites with beverages (alcohol and non-alcohol).
In the meantime, Priya and Ruben took a break while consuming a nice ice-cream.
Mellow was fixated with the guinea pigs (which are having vacation at our garden, since the owners could not take them with them to their camping place in Hoenderloo, Apeldoorn).
I made 'nasi goreng' and roasted chicken for the dinner and after the party the final guests left with the 3 dogs and Jan & Aty to the eastern part of the country. Jan & Aty are having their holiday at Arjen & Astrid's house in Wijchen (they are in the UK on 4 weeks vacation).
Joke the neighbour, was watering the plants outside and of course Ruben challenged her to spray the water on him. He needed to cool down after a heavy party of his sister.
I made 'nasi goreng' and roasted chicken for the dinner and after the party the final guests left with the 3 dogs and Jan & Aty to the eastern part of the country. Jan & Aty are having their holiday at Arjen & Astrid's house in Wijchen (they are in the UK on 4 weeks vacation).
Joke the neighbour, was watering the plants outside and of course Ruben challenged her to spray the water on him. He needed to cool down after a heavy party of his sister.
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