(My girl wants to) Party all the time ...

How many parties can you fit in a telephone booth? Not as many, apparently, as we managed to stuff into one lonely old November week.


First - Hallowe'en. Not exactly Canadian style, but British style suited the terrors just fine (less houses, but more bang for your buck. We're talking full-sized chocolate bars.).

Tante Stinky was in charge of make-up, as it was a "London" night for Mamuks. Dzuk is a bit skeptical, I believe (nau.)

Then came Mudzuks' 'school friends' birthday party, which luckily Annika was still around for as well. This year Mamuks gave up on cakes and turned her hand to underwater papier mache instead....

... while pizza-maker Papuks played galley slave.

Well, not only galley slave. He was also jellyfish pinata maker extraordinaire. Perhaps too extraordinaire. Particularly as we hadn't quite reckoned on it being pitch black already at 5 oclock -far too dark to go across to the field with Big Tree - we improvised inside. The pinata was far too powerful a match for the wooden spoon, as the frustrated bashers soon discovered.

But the bottom, as always, evenutally gives way...

Happy customers!

But the partying doesn't stop there, oh no. The next night it was Guy Fawkes - i.e. Bonfire Night in England. Opis rose to the challenge! With marshmallows...

And real fireworks - both small and sparkly, and big and potentially dangerous! (You can see Papuks has almost lost a leg in that second pic...)


But we're just warming up, really. The next morning O-squared brought over a torte and more goodies for the birthday girl...

...while Dzukie and Vecais were already looking a bit hungover from all that partying (hmmm, fingersmears on the glass doors, anyone??)

But nothing a little bit of fresh air and park action can't cure.

And finally the real day arrives!

(I think she enjoyed it, through a sleepy sort of fog....)