Tuki Time!

When deciding on a party theme for Daisy's 8th birthday, we both agreed our new waterslide was a great idea. I suggested a tiki theme to go with the water part. She liked the idea but couldn't remember exactly what it was, so a Tuki party it became.

We brought several girls home from school and had a couple other friends join us as well. We had 10 girls in all. They did about a million things since they seemed to have the attention span of a swarm of gnats, but they had a great time doing it!

The waterslide was visited on and off several times, always accompanied with lots of squeals.

 The tiki bar was a big hit with the girls.  I bought several juices and mixers like ginger ale and Daisy made up the drink menu, like Freaky Tiki and Darling Dazzle. I think their favorite drink was the Totally Hawaiian, which was a bit of everything. The funny part was when the girls would sip it they were like, "Wow, that's strong!" as if we were serving real alcoholic drinks or something.

We had the best bar tender ever.

Nothin' beats a cold drink on a warm day.

 We made grass skirts.

 They all dressed up in Daisy's clothes.

The dogs got walked around the cut-de-sac several times. Sometimes the girls even had to wait for turns.

 They played in and on the tree house.

 Then it was cake time!

 I made an exploding Skittles cake. It seemed like it would be neater than it really was. Wouldn't call it a Pinterest fail, but a Pinterest let down.

 The next morning the girls set up shop and decided to try to sell some drinks to passers by.

 However, there were no passers by, so they went down to the corner to try to drum up business as cars passed. At least they were working for their profits.

 A successful tuki party!