Our good friends, the Dutsons, came yesterday with their 4 helpful boys, and together with Christian, Gabe and Luke, decorated everything with an obvious ocean theme! Streamers and ribbons in blues and greens squiggled from the ceiling like waves, a net in the corner held goggles and beach items, with shiny fish spinning around it. The table was covered in a blue vinyl ocean and had fish-y items to welcome the girls. Genuine sea shells dotted the entire room, from the buffet table by the window, to a chandelier set around a floor lamp and lending a seaside air to the nearby tropical rice paper umbrella. A beach towel on each chair made you think we had all just come in from the pool. 2 of our young friends stay over the night before, and the 5 boys handed out leis to the girls who came through the door...making them feel very special, and a little embarrassed!! The "Island" cake included Polly Pocket posing as a mermaid, and carefully placed fish and umbrellas thanks to Emme's help! The front door was decorated just for Victoria, and the boys also made some "grass" skirting to line under the bar and be a backdrop for the "Happy Birthday" banner we borrowed from some other friends!(Thank you, Daisy!) She loaned us several of the decorating items and leis from a luau held at her house last year.
The party continued with the Funky Chicken dance, limbo, Musical beach towels, and a little of the Macarena! The girls popped inflated balloons which held a prize of a small sparkly ring, and they then played hide and seek with their gift so that Victoria had to earn those presents! She had pre-packaged small cellophane bags with a sea shell necklace, pencil, and starfish sucker for each guest. They were happy to leave holding their goody bag, and a Small "wave" bottle...made with a water bottle, and dyed-blue water and vegetable oil with ocean confetti floating and bobbing around in bubbles!
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