Aftermath

Another year, another kid's birthday party done! And so am I... I think I'm coming down with something now that all the hard work is over.

These were the boys that turned up (most of them) - birthday boy in orange near the front:



And this was the volcano cake!



Not shown is the garage converted into a maze of very dark crawl-through tunnels and 2 caverns. It took 3 hours to set up on Saturday night! It was constructed out of nearly 50 black plastic rubbish bags, and almost a full roll of clear packing tape. Current garage contents in boxes and bags helped form the passage supports. From the entrance at the front of the garage there was a crawl-space to the first chamber (guarded by a big hanging plastic spider at face-level). In the first chamber there was a "dead man" - clothes hung from the roof, with the shoes just at the right height to clobber the head when you exit the first passage. From there it was a belly-crawl through another twisty passage - and here I hung large, floppy, cold arum lily leaves from the passage roof, which hit you in the face as you went through. Which made at least one boy scream like a girl! :) The final chamber was lined with that popping-plastic-bubble wrapping stuff and filled with balloons.

And there was much merriment, screaming and shouting as the boys explored. Seems to have been a hit!

The only other game we played was pass the bag and when it stops feel the contents, make up a name for the cave monster inside and the best one wins 5 bucks. In the bags were a pile of hair, a squishy toy from Infinity with soft spikes, and a lovely gooey mix made from gelatin and blue water. Gross-out levels soared!

Food went down well - chips and salsa, and home-made honeycomb toffee, and home-made rocky-road, and a container with sour worms and jelly snakes. The cake, as usual, is only half-eaten. Dunno what we'll do with the rest. Send it to school perhaps?

And that's another birthday out the way! The kid scored 215 bucks in prezzie cash, along with a Narnia 3-CD set (The Final Battle), a cool tracksuit and a finger-skateboard. He's already on the PS2 which is his main gift from me, but I have a little something to give him for his ACTUAL birthday tomorrow that he doesn't know about.

Sjoe - I need a weekend now!