The youngest is turning 8 next month and wants to celebrate with a party at Macquarie Ice Rink. She’s a bit obsessed with ice skating, despite getting limited opportunity to indulge her need for frozen speed. And whizzing around the rink on the Voyager of The Seas last month (hello? I know!) sealed the deal.
Booking a hosted party at a venue should mean zero effort from me … but where’s the fun in that?
Yesterday I booked the 11am timeslot here …
But the planning started weeks before with the loot bags. I’m a bit of a party bag fiend. In fact, 10 Amazing Loot Bags is the second most popular blog on my site ever (after Princess Kate’s Nude Scandal, sigh).
This time around we’re going with a winter wonderland theme.
We’ve ordered snowflake stickers – from Party Wow in Queensland of all places – to put on the front of pale blue paper craft bags (oops, better get onto ordering those) …
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Oh, what fun! What 8 year old wouldn’t love such a happy party!
I am in the love camp – in theory. Love the ideas, love looking at pretty pictures of cakes and loot bags and décor – but the actual nitty gritty of the organisation? Stressful! This year for the first time I am also booking a venue. If I were an 8-year-old girl, your daughter’s ice-skating party would be my dream party! Those ideas for your loot bags are so impressive! You could go into business doing this party stuff. I’ve booked a bowling party for my almost six-year-old boy, also in March. Have fun with your snow globe cake – let us know how it goes!
Will do Alex! Good luck with the bowling party – my daughter has been to one and LOVED it.
I was going to suggest you book at the one at Norwest but have you seen the prices? $35 per kid (for 10 kids) versus $28 per kid (for 10 kids) at Macquarie. They say the closer to the city you get the dearer things are but there seems to be a cloud over Bella Vista and Castle Hill that voids that remark.
Still, I can’t complain; those cray cray prices in the North West growth sector have meant that I’m sitting on a gold mine with our house going up $100K in 2 years.
With that sort of extra cash, I guess I can book our son’s birthday party at the Sydney Ice Arena….
I’m a little bit dazzled by the prices for the party (especially as the guest numbers keep climbing!!!). But turns out to be a nice thing for the kids to look forward to in all this mess. Congrats on the house price – ours seems to have gone backwards!