2019 Life Logs, Day 83: Ollie’s Birthday Party
Date: Sunday, March 24, 2019
Weather: Sunshine Turning Overcast and Windy; High 48, Low 32 degrees F
Location: At Home in the Cottage, East Falmouth, MA
Today was Ollie’s birthday party with his friends.
He chose to take a small number of friends to the Cape Codder Indoor Waterpark in Hyannis, so they gathered at noon to have pizza and birthday cake and then Heather and Jed took off with the five first graders plus Jonah and Sam. They needed two cars since the van still has the spare on, so I offered my car and I stayed behind and took advantage of the Goldstone laundry facilities for the afternoon. I also took a walk but unfortunately waited until the wind blew in the clouds, hiding that beautiful sunshine. With the wind, it felt so cold that I only made it a half mile this afternoon. If it is still cold and windy tomorrow, I’ll go to the community center and take advantage of the indoor walking track that is available to the public from 11:00 to 12:00 each week day. Later in the week it is supposed to warm up a bit and I am looking forward to some long walks with good friend Lynne Kirwin who is coming to visit. I can’t wait for her arrival on Thursday.
Back to the birthday party, Heather and Jed served homemade pizza and then the fantastic cake Heather made. It is called a rainbow cake and looks too beautiful to eat. She made the cake yesterday
and then put the blue icing on this morning making it into a water slide.
I knew the two boys Ollie invited, Raylan and Grayson, as we spent our mornings at swim lessons together last summer, but I had never met the two little girls, Grace and Peyton. What a group of delightful personalities! They have been learning at school about how important it is to eat the rainbow. This means eating colorful vegetables. But when they saw the rainbow cake, they immediately joked about eating something not so healthy and getting away with it by saying they were eating the rainbow.
And evidently in addition to dynamic personalities, they also had a lot of energy as Heather came home from the water park exhausted. She was the only adult in the water with the seven kids and they gave her a run for her money! But they had a great time. Ollie was very happy with his birthday celebration.
