Day: September 7, 2008

This past year Link has decided that Indiana Jones is way cool. So it was no surprise that he wanted an Indiana Jones theme for his 11th birthday. He had a big party with friends last year, so this year I was ready for a quieter celebration. “Quieter” doesn’t necessarily mean “simpler.” The celebration started when I handed Link an Indiana Jones lego set and told him to construct it. Once constructed, this set adorned Link’s cake. While Link was distracted with the construction, I set about hiding all of his presents. Each gift was hidden with a little scroll giving the clue for finding the next gift. I burned all the edges of the clues so that they looked extra cool. The hunt started with Link receiving an Indiana Jones style hat. We then told him that he was Indiana and the rest of us were his helpers. Then we romped through the house and the yard in search of the “rock cliff” the “farthest end of the land where the vines grow tangled” and the place that “blasts heat and rumbles, tumbling its victims in circles.” That last one had the kids stumped for quite a while. Probably because they never do laundry. Kiki finally figured it out. It was a fun family activity for us all. Later this evening Howard will be cooking dutch oven pizza and we’ll eat cake.