Aloha - Our Hawaiian Luau

The day started sunny and bright. Beyond belief by lunch it was hailing in our backyard! CONTINGENCY PLAN!

We rearranged the furniture and I had to quickly revise party games for inside (I was not brave enough to still have water balloon races!)
I made the sign above, placed it near the door with colours and glitter, so the party guests could write her a happy birthday message or draw her a pic as they arrived (after receiving their lei!).

And sure enough just before the first guest arrived, Out came the sun! This was lovely but I had set up everything inside and was then a little cheesed there was no time for an outside move!

The coconut ice we made was delish and went very fast.

I felt out of my depth as the party became an indoor/outdoor affair but I pulled my hawaiian self together and the games began. We started with water ballloon races while it was still nice outside, followed by hot potato though the boys seemed more interested at dropping the potatoes and watching them burst.

Then a little Limbo, a few games of statues and an old favourite - pass the parcel, even wrapped in old fashioned newspaper!

It rained in the middle of the party but near the end we were lucky to have a ray of sun for the pinatta. We had lots of ideas for the shape this year,with the final decision being the number 7 (Thank you to my gorgeous man for making and decorating xx)

The cake worked. An icecream frangipani.

I served it into cones for everyone which was fun and saved on plates and washing up!

All in all, everyone had a lot of fun and most importantly Miss Skye had a ball.