Birthday Parties

Jan 22, 2012
I had two birthday parties to go to. The first was on Wednesday and the second was a sleep over on Friday night. On Wednesday for Dagbört's birthday, we get there and had some snacks of candy, chocolate and chips. Then we started the movie Rio while eating pizza. The movie was in English with Icelandic subtitles. During the movie we started playing the Wii game Just Dance. After the movie we turned on some music and danced around. We had fun. During the party, we had some chocolate cake. They did not put candles on the cake nor sing happy birthday. There were both boys and girls from the 5th grade class. It was really tight because there were so many kids there and it is a small apartment (just like ours). I went home a little bit after the party was over.

On Friday, after school, I had to pack for Johanna's birthday party. I went to Erla's (pronounced Ekla) house at 5pm because the rest of my family was heading to Reykjavik for a US Embassy party my parents wanted to attend. We headed to Johanna's at 6pm which is across the street from Erla's house. Between Erla and myself we had 7 bags to carry plus two pillows and a mattress. When we got there, Johanna's parents had moved all of the furniture out of the living room and into the hallway (right in front of the bathroom door) so all the girls (7 in total) could spread out their sleeping bags and mattresses. We changed into pajama's right away.We listened to music and jumped around on the mattresses. We had a snack of peas and corn then danced while listening to music. When the music stopped we had to sit or else we were out. After that we had dinner of lamb, small caramel potatoes, peas and corn. It was delicious. We had a lemon

eating contest and I won! The prize for winning was a toy race car (Spencer loves it). Then we played a few more games. After that we had cake. The candles were cool but didn't didn't work as they were supposed to. It was suppose to be a flower that you lit the wick that made a spark to light the candles to open the flower petals with candles on

them and twirled around. It also played the tune Happy Birthday. We were trying to choose a movie to watch and some of us went over to Erla's house to choose one there. The movie we choose was "How to Lose a Guy in 10 days." It was in English with Icelandic subtitles. Johanna's mom put food coloring on the popcorn which turned our mouths blue. At 11pm we finally went to bed.
The next morning we had toast for breakfast and some had cake also. We watched the movie again then changed into day cloths and played hide and go seek. I brushed my teeth because we forgot to the night before. We finally headed home at 11:45am.
All in all, I had fun at the birthday parties. I am glad I'm making lots of friends here.