Today we celebrated Alex’s birthday – a little early. I figured it was a good way to have some fun play time with our Indian friends and say goodbye before we leave. We had a hard time figuring out what to do. Games kids play here are very different than what we traditionally play during birthday parties. I didn’t want anyone to feel left out or confused. Water play seemed like the perfect thing to do – it’s universally fun and perfect for the 110 degree heat. A big Thank You goes to Reasa and Ben, our American expat friends, who lent us their pool. That was definitely a hit! No doubt about it. Amazing how many kids can fit in that thing.
The cake was from Oven Magic. Folks here only eat baked items that don’t contain eggs. No bakeries that we know of have items with eggs in them. Eggs are considered “non-vegetarian” or non-veg for short. We had to make sure that we announced to all the parents that the cake was “veg” before the kids could have some cake.
Alex chose a penguin for a piñata because he’s been enjoying playing on Club Penguin, a social networking kids website. We made the piñata from a couple of balloons, flour and water to make paste, and newspaper strips. The most challenging part was finding the paint.
Over all, a successful event!
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- Water play – Ben and Jainam in the foreground
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- Getting soaked in the water play
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- Water balloon fight!
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- Dinosaur cake from Oven Magic
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- Alex just blew out the candles. We sung the Happy Birthday song. Kids here clap with the song.
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- Eating the yummy veg cake (i.e. no eggs).
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- Riya and her grandpa eating cake and ice cream.
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- Penguin pinata
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- Erik was the youngest, so he went first. It was hard to figure out where to whack the stick!
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- Harshell gave the pinata some really good whacks!
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- Scramble for the loot
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- Played so hard, these two passed out within a 1/2 hour of sitting still.
