There are considerably fewer birthday party options here than there are in Austin. We did extensive birthday party research (we even created a spreadsheet!) and decided that PISE was the best choice for a boy who
I invited my dearest friends from school, a boy from soccer, a boy named Atticus, and the sweetest little princess I met in a restaurant months ago.
At my party, we played almost two hours of gym games led by the Physical Literacy Leaders. (They ran us ragged. completely ragged.)
Then they released us, a ravenous bunch, for food.
When I first moved to Victoria, I saw a monster truck cake at the bakery. And that was the cake I had been talking about all year. It exceeded my expectations, though I don't think I ate any of it.
The best part of the cake, aside from the monster truck crushing the three vehicles, was the crumbled up brownies that the baker used for mud.
