This weekend was pretty fun. On Saturday Stephanie had 7 friends over for her 13th birthday party. Imagine, eight 12 and 13 year old girls! Whee!
They are a really nice gaggle of girls though, so they all had a good time. And so did Liz and I.
The original plan was to go ice skating at the Parade Ice Gardens. They are supposed to have open skate from 2:30 – 4:00 on Saturdays right now.
I say original plan because we all arrived at the ice rink around 2:30. After we had been standing around for about 10 minutes, one of the people working there told us that open skate had been canceled because The Wild (the Minnesota state hockey team) were going to be using the ice starting at 3:00.
WTF? This is a Minneapolis Parks and Rec facility. Why is a professional hockey team booting people off the ice so they can practice?
So we discussed things and decided to go play mini-golf at Lava Links instead. And the girls had a good time.
Then we went to our house where the girls had a snack (which they practically inhaled) and made a crafty item. Stephanie and I had gone out and bought each girl a wooden letter that was their first initial and lots of sequins and pom poms they could glue on. So each girl made a fridge magnet.
After they were done with that I made sushi for them and then they had cake and ice cream.
Then they popped in Monty Python and the Holy Grail to watch until their parents picked them up around 8:00.
All in all it was a very successful birthday party.
