The Weekend That Was ...

My weekend was pretty tiring but thoroughly fun all the same. In fact I hardly had time to even blog as you you guys can probably guess from the lack of postings the past 4 days. The only downside is, I'm feeling absolutely sick right now.

I feel the coming ons of a fever, my throat is irritable, and that's a sure sign of early indications for a sore throat and cough. My bones ache in every conceivable position and just trying to type this post is a chore. My mind just isn't working at it's best right now and even wifey says I'm pretty distracted at the moment.

But me being me, I just couldn't stay away from my blog any longer and decided I'd better at least post something up before I fall sick and have no strength to post anything at all. These days when I fall sick, I tend to be pretty weak and all I wanna do is just sleep.

Anyways, the birthday party turned out to be pretty fun, though it didn't start out that way. Both wifey and me met my cousin at the venue to get the decorations up and were in for some surprises. First of all, some of the things that I requested from my cousin to get were not bought yet and even then, when it was bought, it wasn't exactly what I really wanted.

You see, wifey and me asked her to get some crepe paper cos I wanted to make some kind of landscape to put on the table with the Star Wars characters I cut out. Unfortunately the crepe paper wasn't bought yet and when they did finally buy it, it just wasn't enough and wasn't of the colour that I wanted. I wanted earthy colours and I got orange!

Just how in heavens name were we going to make a landscape with the orange crepe paper was beyond me and even then it wasn't really enough. Fortunately wifey put on her thinking cap and made the best out of it and though it didn't really come out the way we envisioned it, the kids were delighted with it :D Thank god it's so easy to please children ... LOL!

Then the backdrop posed another problem. I printed this huge, well not really huge Star Wars backdrop with the birthday boys name on it and was intending to mount it on the main wall but found out that we're not allowed to stick anything on the walls using double sided tape and neither were we allowed to use hooks as well. And to mount that backdrop I needed to to use lots of tape and hooks.

So, in the end, we shifted the main party area facing the side with windows and I tied up the backdrop over the windows. It didn't really stand out with the windows clearly taking away attention from the backdrop but that was the best I could manage. But even then, someone did notice and wants me to come up with a theme and decor for a wedding somewhere in November, so I guess it wasn't all that bad ... hehehe ...

Next were the balloons. I wanted black and white ones cos that was basically the colour scheme for most of the Star Wars movies and instead got red and blue ones ... siggghhh ... And worse yet, the balloons had to be blown up manually with our mouths.

The balloon pumps that my cousin bought really made the job even slower. So I engaged the help of my two boys, my nephews and got them to blow the balloons but in the end I ended up blowing the balloons cos you know kids being kids, when they're together they end up playing instead of working.

Eventually everything was done to the best of our abilities and we had an hour to spare to head home and then head back to the party. By the time I was back at the venue with wifey and the boys, the place was already full of kids running around screaming and playing. You know, the usual mad house routine ... hehehe ... In the end everyone had a great time especially the kids.

An hour into the party, the clown turned up to entertain the little terrors. Unfortunately the clown wasn't all that clowny. I think I could have been a better clown ... LOL! Instead of having his games in front of the main party area he decided to go to one corner and entertain the kids. Most of the adults were straining to see what was going on. And his crowd management with the kids was absolutely non existent!

I shouldn't really be complaining I guess, maybe next time I'll take up Gallivanters offer to be a clown at these parties ... LOL! The offer is still open right buddy? In the end, all that matters is that everyone had a great time, me included that by time the party was over which was about 8pm, we were all so drained out that the moment we all reached home, we were in bed by 8.30pm and only woke up about 9.00am the next day ... hehehe ...

And I'm just glad that at least someone actually booked my Dream Themes services for their wedding :D The only thing is I don't really know how much to charge them cos this one was a freebie for my cousin. Anyways, I'll worry about that later cos right now, I feel sick to the bone. I think I'll head home early from work today and drop by the clinic on the way home. Will drop by your blogs when I'm feeling better.

Some of the main stars and the backdrop ...

Wifey trying to salvage the landscape, she did a remarkable job on her own with what she had :D

The very sparse landscape with the plates and goodie bags ...

The work still in progress party area ...

Aljo, the not so funny Clown ...

The kids digging in ...

Aljo with the kids in a game session ...

The two assistant clowns who really just sat there and looked anything but clowny ...

The very simple American Chocolate birthday cake.

Chocolate cake (?) giveaways ...

The kids waiting for the cake cutting session ...

My nephew, the really shy birthday boy waiting to blow the candles ...

'Get on with it already!' The impatient kids lending my nephew a hand to blow the candles ...

The very happy albeit still shy birthday boy :D

The poodle I got Aljo to make for wifey. She was totally embarassed with my request to Aljo :D
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