Our Pot of Gold

Back in April we were at the Mall of Dubai and Stinkerbell saw an advertisement outside of a bakery and stopped in her tracks.  She declared at that moment that this, this was the cake she would have for her birthday party and that the theme would be rainbows.  Who am I to argue?  So I did a bit of research and found that the cake just looked difficult and I could, in fact, do it myself...the invitation she picked, on the other hand, looked simple but took me a lot more time (but they were really cute...)

With the theme and cake decided upon, and the invitations cut and pasted, we just had to decide on the location.  Stinkerbell kept going back and forth between doing a spa party,  a painting party and a "crazy" party at the trampoline park.  But mostly she wanted to have her party at Beckiland like every other kid in Prague (including her sister).  But the site closed late last year.  Thankfully, it opened again, under new management and a new name, Toboga, the month before her party!  Invitations - check.  Cake - check.  Location - check.

Let the Rainbow party commence...

Gift bags - a blank canvas, paint pallets , rainbow Twizzlers and a gold chocolate coin.  Because no rainbow is complete without a pot of gold at its base...

J and Stinkerbell ready to attack all that Toboga has to offer.

A couple of hours into the celebrations we wrangled them to eat...

The food was good but they didn't really want to sit still...so she proved she ate 

And then we sent them off to play again...Until it was time to dig into the cake that started it all...

Pre - frosting.  Layered and ready to go...this monster would take an entire four cans of frosting to cover!  But it was exactly what the birthday girl ordered and that made all of us smile!

We lit the candle.  Or rather the sparkler and her face say it all...

And after singing to her we tried to blow it out, but it was just had to burn itself t

Finally, she got to see the inside - the most important part.  And I held my breath as I waited to see if she would approve of my attempt to recreate the show-stopping moment in Dubai.  I think I succeeded...

and I think the adults agreed too...

 

After a bit more playing, it was time to wrap it up.  And because it was her last party here in Prague, I wanted to make sure that I captured a picture with most of the partygoers and the birthday girl.  I think I succeeded.  And I love the silly faces and the smiles and the memories they made in celebration of the sweetest almost 7 year old I know.