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Poll: Birthday Parties you had as a kid
When you were a kid, did you ever have a birthday party that wasnt at your house? For example at a swimming pool, bowling alley, skating rink, fast food restaurant etc.?
I always had my party at home but I was really jealous of the kids that got to have their party at some place cool. I dont know but I always wanted my party at McDonalds. They had the best birthday cakes.
Re: Poll: Birthday Parties you had as a kid
I had one at Paramount Pizza Palace that was awesome. It was a pizza restaurant that had a fantastic pipe organ on a rising stage in the middle of a big hall with balconies, and it had all kinds of mechanical instruments like those old carousel bands. Drums, horns, a train whistle, and even a fake songbird and a bubble machine! When it was your birthday, you got to go up and sit on the bench with the organist and "play" one of the extra instruments, so I got to blow the train whistle.
I'm trying to recall if I ever had one at the roller skating rink. Maybe. And either my sister or I had one at Noble Roman's where everyone got to go into the kitchen and "decorate" their own little pizza.
Most of the time, we had parties at home, because a) we didn't have a lot of money, and b) my mother was a crafty theme-party genius.
I had a birthday party at the skating rink several times, one at a place called Clown Around (it had rides and stuff and was awesome), and a couple at Chuck E Cheese.
I had one at a Roller Rink with another girl who was a week older than me. I preferred the ones at my house. I would have a theme every year it was much better.
My friends all had their parties at their houses as well. I guess that is what I was used to so that's what I wanted.
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Cecilia arrived 12 October 2012
When is your bday? We can throw an IN Mcdonald's bday party for you!
I didn't have very many bday parties and I think they were always at home and mostly just family events. I didn't have very many friends as a child
Most of my birthday parties were at the Spur, which is a bit like a TGI-Fridays, cheap, easy and the waiters put a sparkler in your ice cream, sang happy birthday and brought each kid a balloon. They did kids meals and there was no mess to clean up at Mom. It was really popular for my generation in SA to have Spur parties. I thnk most parties I went to were there. And besides the adults could legitimately drink wine while they were there, but really the waiter was baby sitting.
I plan on doing James birthday party at home this year, with child entertainer and wine.
Now jumping domestically.
Well that was a crazy couple of years.
My birthday is in January
It sucks having your birthday after the holidays. Nobody feels up to celebrating.
I had many birthday parties at the pool. In South Florida, every planned community has a pool, so we would BBQ, play, have cake. It was great.
When I was really young, we lived in an apartment complex that had a shared lawn. In my four-year-old mind, this open space was the size of a football field. So a few years we had the party there where my mom would set up tons of food, and my sister and her friends would dress as clowns and paint our faces. Also, great.
Also January birthday here. In fact, it's one day after most people are recovering from the biggest party of the year. No one really wanted to celebrate something else, yet again.
We mostly stayed in the house. I think we may have gone to a park or to the beach, but, I think we mostly kept it close to home. I was always jealous of McDonald's birthday parties. They were so cool!
This is what I'm having trouble with. I want to celebrate my son's first bday in November, but our place is too small. Although I would've loved a McDonalds b-day as a child, I don't want one for him. I talked to my local friends and they said that's it's not common to celebrate first birthdays outside of just family, but our family doesn't live here. In the states (Florida) I would've just gone to a park, but it'll be too cold to do that here. Oh well, we'll figure something out.
I never had birthday parties at my house--my mom was too much of a neat freak to have so many people in her house at once. Venues include:
Ice cream store with clown, roller rink, gymnastics party, ballet/dance/tumbling studio, ice skating rink, gym (as in circuit training and jump rope)--I guess I had active parties!