centre of the universe - the dreaming: Almost time!

10/02/2004: "Almost time!" Mike thought 'pin the bustier on the wench' was too risque for five-year-olds, so we're doing a 'pin the eyepatch on the pirate' game instead. And probably a 'sink the paper boat' game in which we give the kids bunched up newsprint balls covered in tinfoil and have them try to sink the paper boats floating in the kiddie pool by hucking their 'canon balls' at them. Then possibly a 'walk the plank' contest in which they have to walk across a board suspended on two stools, spanning the pool.

I'm baking the cake now - it's going to be a very keen 3D pirate ship (complete with pirates!).

I've finished the treasure chest gift boxes (we bought some little wooden boxes at one of those handicraft stores, and I painted them with glow-in-the-dark jolly roger flags on top. Inside each one is a sticky squishy monster (they appear to be made out of flubber), a parachute soldier, pirate stickers, and pirate tattoos. Oh, and some 'booty' - gold coins.

I still have to make a treasure map or organise a treasure hunt, but I won't know where to hide the treasures until tomorrow. We're going to have each kid find 5 or 10 gold coins, then they have to each give their coins to the thieve's guild (that'd be me) to get the treasure map, which shows them where their gift boxes are.

Man.

Mike has asked me if I'll do a pirate birthday for him.

And there WILL be a wench at that party. With AND without a bustier. And grog. We'll have real grog. not just apple juice with weird food colouring in it.

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