This week Kyleigh got invited to her first birthday party. I got to take her and decided this might make a good blog. I was reluctant to go - 2 hours of Serbian were not in my plans Saturday. It turned out to be pretty interesting. There are a lot of similarities to American birthday's but they are also very different. People do not have parties in their homes - they go to party places. Most of these are just little corner shops - maybe 600 square feet. They are divided into two rooms, one for the kids, one for the parents. While the kids party so do the parents. The kids mostly play games - things we play in America - limbo etc. The parents listen to music and drink, beer, wine schnapps, Luckily there was coffee and coke available. Kids do not open their presents at the party. Both K and Mac find this very strange. They play games for 90 minutes then eat cake, then everyone goes home. The cake is very different - its more like a tiaramusu - Miki does not like it but Kyleigh liked it - and of course I like all cake. The crowning moment - the cake candles - they call them torches - see picture. All in all it was fun. Kyleigh had a great time and I did make some connections. On the way home Kyleigh asked if she could have torches on her cake - about 3 minutes later she asked if we had a fire extinguisher.
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You guys party in BG the same as we do here in K-town~! No worries, the cake will grow on ya! They call our B-day cakes "samo helb"...hehe...makes me laugh!
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