Anna’s 9th Birthday – Part Trois
Today we held the third and last celebration of Anna turning 9 years old – this time for her female classmates, and a couple of school friends. Just like ‘last year‘, we invited them all to enjoy ice-skating for a couple of hours at the Ice Rink in Laugardalur. The event was mostly a success, except for one bad accident… ahemm.
Apparently one of the girls, ironically the only one to actually practice ice-skating and thus not wearing a helmet, fell over while goofing off with one of the metallic skating-aids. Neither Finnur nor I saw the accident or the injured girl because we were in the wrong place, but thankfully one of the other parents dropping off a kid phoned her parents that had just dropped her off, so they arrived quickly.
I remained utterly clueless until I happened to wander down to the rink-entrance area, where I spoke briefly to the family before they whisked her off to the hospital. There she was apparently diagnosed with a mild concussion from thumping her head on the ice, and a potentially broken nose from the metallic skate-aid. 🙁
Still, the party went on, and a seemingly good time was had by most if not all that remained. Some photos!
Winter Wonderland had appeared overnight, after spring-like conditions this previous week. The snow-cover probably meant there were fewer people at the ice-rink, which was fine by us!
Anna (red pants) and a gaggle of girls.
Anna’s gotten to be pretty speedy at skating, but still lacks proper stopping skills etc…
Finnur was in charge of Bjarki, who’s been begging us to go skating for quite some time now. He did really well, and kept going without complaint even though he fell over quite a few times. He got remarkably good at getting himself up to speed with the skate-aid, and then sliding for a good long while. He also tried skating without the aid a few times.
Time for cake and juice!
Candles lit, and singing in progress. It’s remarkably hard to sing ‘Happy Birthday’ when another song is blaring through the sound system… 🙂
Nine year old Anna has lungs and knows how to use them!
Let them eat (store-bought) cake!
After the cake, everybody went skating again, until the ice was cleared some forty minutes later for re-surfacing. At that point we brought out some frozen sun-lollies, which the girls and two boys slurped on while Anna opened her presents. By the time they’d re-surfaced the ice, it was already four o’clock, and parents started showing up to pick up their kids.
Shockingly, Anna’s party was just one of THREE birthday parties all or some of us attended today! We attended a birthday party at lunchtime for Finnur’s niece, then came Anna’s party at 2 pm, and we dropped Bjarki off at a daycare-birthday party at 5 pm for an hour or so. And just to top off this very social day, we then had dinner with Adda and Halli. Oh, and Bjarki also attended a birthday party yesterday, so after this weekend, we’re pretty birthday-partied-out! 🙂
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