I think this is the last catch up post of what we did on our vacation. Isabelle’s birthday party!!

This was the first party we ever threw. It was fun but very tiring. Alan was barbecuing pretty much all day. Things we learned: not so much food next time, reserve a park where booze is allowed, cut the cake earlier, take more pictures, allow more time for set up, and remember to put RSVP on the invitations so we have a ballpark figure of how many people to expect.

We busted up Alan’s pinata from his birthday.

So now the drama…We went to park services in August to reserve a space at the park. Well, when we arrived, there were handmade signs up that said reserved for some other person’s birthday party, tablecloths, and a few decorations. But no one was there. So Alan started to cook.

Later on two women came up. They were mad that we were in their space. There is a lower and upper area and we had reserved the lower. I asked which they had reserved. They said both. They accused us of removing their decorations. We would never be so crass as to do that. I explained the wind had blown them onto the floor. One of the women rudely said it wasn’t windy enough to have blown it away. Ah yes it was, in fact we chased one of the tablecloths that had blown away.

I said I had paperwork and asked to see theirs. They said they had left it at home. I told them that if the park had double booked I was willing to share the space with them. They left and when they came back they never did show me their paperwork and they sat somewhere else.

Again Isabelle didn’t like cake.

During the party one of our guests saw a bulletin area. The park had put up a sheet that showed who had reserved the space. My name was clearly there and no one else. I couldn’t understand why they had said they had reserved the space. Maybe they assumed that just by putting up the handmade signs meant it was reserved for them? I don’t know. The woman said she had gone to park services and reserved it. One of my friends thought she was lying. I wouldn’t have sat somewhere else if I had paid for that space and had paperwork.

Well anyhoo…some last photos.

Yummy cupcakes from the same place that made the cake.

Love this picture. Poor Spongebob.