Birthday Party
Last night we were invited to a child's 6th birthday party (6.00-9.00 pm). Beforehand, I did wonder whether I would cope with a 3 hour children's birthday party, but it turned out to be fun!

Children's birthday parties here are as much an event for adults as they are for the children. This one was held in a venue which runs these parties. It was a large hall (like a sport's hall) full of trampolenes, rope walkways etc. on which the children were let loose but carefully supervised. Plenty of space for them to career around.

Alongside this hall were some rooms which could be booked for the party. This was used by the adults and the children came in and out as they wished. We were served with wine, maracuja cocktails (passion fruit), salgadinhos (small savoury eats) and docinhos (small sweet eats) - all delicious and all very bad for the figure!

The children came in for an excellent magic show and to see the cake being cut and sing 'Parabens para voce'.

The three hours flew by!