Karla & Warren's Almost-Summer (and Super-Early Birthday) Celebration, The Preserve, All Day Sunday

[glacial_witch]

Due to any number of factors, Karla and Warren had been planning to celebrate their shared birthday a little early this year. They didn't want to interfere with people's graduation or vacation plans, as a last hurrah before finals, making sure their off-island friends would be able to attend mun failure at remembering her own character's birthday,

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Arrive and Mingle

[glacial_witch]

It was a party! What else are you supposed to do? Also while you're arriving and mingling, help yourself to all sorts of kid-friendly foods: mini-pizzas, sandwiches (lots of PB&J), milk, juice, and some soda, chicken nuggets, the works!

There was even a small carnival stand where kids could get cotton candy, candy apples, kettle corn, and ice cream!

Anything that can tempt the palate of a hyper-active eight year old can be found right here.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[not_a_parakeet]

Warren was standing on the edges, wearing a coat that was probably a little too heavy for the season, and staring wide-eyed at all of the stuff. He was a Worthington, so it wasn't as though he'd never seen stuff before, but he'd been a bit of a shut-in over the past year, so this was a whole lot to take in all at once.

And also, it was totally awesome.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[longislandiceme]

"WAR!" Oh, incoming, Warren. There was a Bobby barreling towards you, hand outstretched to grab yours and yank you towards the pony rides or the bouncy castle or maybe the bumper cars... "HAPPY ALMOST YOUR BIRTHDAY!"

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[not_a_parakeet]

"AAH!" That was Warren's best attempt at 'thank you,' today, Bobby! It was a pretty good attempt, considering he was tripping off toward... wherever it was that Bobby wanted to go. "Thank you!"

It was difficult to remain awkward in the face of a birthday greeting like that one. And almost-birthdays? Were pretty cool!

Elephant & Pony Rides

[glacial_witch]

Climb up and ride around a ring on either an elephant or a pony! There's also hay and feed for them if you want to make friends later.

Re: Elephant & Pony Rides

[showmetheproof]

On most days Dana would be completely exploding with joy that there was a pony, but today? There was an el-e-phant.

She bounced frantically in line, pointing at it and singing, "El-e-phant ride, el-e-phant ride, el-e-phant ride!"

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[heromaniac]

Momoko bounced in awe. There was a pony AND an elephant? She poked at the girl ahead of her in line. "We can ride both, right? I'm tot'ly gonna ride both. is this the line for both?" It was such a looooooooooooong line it totally had to be, right?

Re: Elephant & Pony Rides

[showmetheproof]

Had to be! "Think so!" Dana beamed at the other little red-headed girl. "I never rode an el-e-phant before, but once! I rode a pony! But that was a long time ago and I wanna ride both now!"

Petting Zoo

[glacial_witch]

If riding an elephant isn't enough, there's a whole petting zoo set up, filled with lots of baby animals. Lots of different moddable animals to pet, play with, and feed if you want to.

Play nice, now! Even docile animals nip!

Re: Petting Zoo

[life_inshadow]

Apparently, playing with Bailey and Mr. Moxy the day before hadn't been enough time with animals for Tara, because she was crouched beside the pen of baby lambs, eagerly offering them a handful of grain.

And another handful.

And another.

And -- look, they were going to be very, very fat lambs if no one distracted her.

Re: Petting Zoo

[brat_inslayage]

"We should have sheep on our farm too," announced Kennedy, all sticky with cotton candy as she bounced (see above re: cotton candy) over to Tara. "Lots of sheep. Maybe purple ones!"

Re: Petting Zoo

[life_inshadow]

"I've never seen purple sheep," Tara said thoughtfully. "Purple's my favorite. Can we get them? Like, lots and lots and lots of them?"

Face Paint & Henna Station

[glacial_witch]

No tattoos yet without grown-up approval, but you can still experiment with decorations either in the form of bright face and body paint or with henna designs.

The best part about henna? It lasts for weeks. Show everyone what a cool kid you are with your long lasting henna designs!

Re: Face Paint & Henna Station

[glacial_witch]

After getting her face painted in an appropriately Glacian style, Karla decided to get henna designs all over her arms and legs. She was going to be SO EXCITED to wake up tomorrow morning.

Rides!

[glacial_witch]

There are a few kid-appropriate rides here, including a bouncy castle, a kiddie roller coaster, swings, a bumper car pavilion, a few other moddable rides, and, of course, a carousel.

Have fun!

Re: Rides!

[batwaffles]

Bouncy castle bouncy castle bouncy castle!

Stephanie couldn't really fly (she secretly knew that even if she kept hoping) but bouncing in the castle was kind of close. It was fun, anyway.

"WHEEEEEEEEEEEE!"

Re: Rides!

[showmetheproof]

"Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" Dana answered her, bouncing by, curls flying. "THIS IS THE MOST SUPER EVER!"

Re: Rides!

[batwaffles]

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!" Stephanie tried to bounce high enough to fly just for a second but ended up faceplanting into the floor of the castle instead.

. . . but that was okay because she bounced right back up again!

"Ev'ybody gets to fly!"