Wednesday, August 05, 2009
Sweet Sixteen
On Monday, Bethany had her sixteenth birthday. It was a little bit low key because we had a bigger blowout for her fifteenth birthday, but we still wanted to acknowledge it. A good friend of hers turned 16 three days earlier, so she spent two nights in San Diego last week with a group to celebrate that.
On her return, we surprised her by having several friends spend Saturday night at our house. We setup a projector and big screen to play movies for the group in our large upstairs playroom. On Sunday, we took them to play laser tag and have lunch.
The laser tag games were an interesting combination of younger boys, teenage boys, and the group of 5 girls (and me). The games were supposed to be free-for-all with everyone scoring off of everyone. However, the groups seemed to naturally evolve into teams anyway: the little kids and related adults vs the teenage boys vs the girls. The older boys seemed annoyed by the audacity of the girls to challenge them as a group while the younger boys were happy to have a natural enemy in the girls to skirmish with. The girls seemed to follow the free-for-all spirit of things in game 1, but learned (with a little coaching from me) to work together like the other groups were doing. At the end of three games, the consensus was that it was fun and ideas for future father/daughter events were discussed.
Sunday evening ended with a family outing for dinner at Lucille's, a local BBQ restaurant that Bethany selected.
On Monday, some friends with annual Disneyland passes (the deluxe kind that are not blacked out in August) took Beth for her free Disneyland day that the park offers. She took that chance to renew her annual pass (received on her fifteenth birthday) with a discount from her free ticket. We finished the night of her actual birthday with the family at home watching episodes of Smallville on DVD (we are getting around to watching those which I got for my birthday last year).
On her return, we surprised her by having several friends spend Saturday night at our house. We setup a projector and big screen to play movies for the group in our large upstairs playroom. On Sunday, we took them to play laser tag and have lunch.
The laser tag games were an interesting combination of younger boys, teenage boys, and the group of 5 girls (and me). The games were supposed to be free-for-all with everyone scoring off of everyone. However, the groups seemed to naturally evolve into teams anyway: the little kids and related adults vs the teenage boys vs the girls. The older boys seemed annoyed by the audacity of the girls to challenge them as a group while the younger boys were happy to have a natural enemy in the girls to skirmish with. The girls seemed to follow the free-for-all spirit of things in game 1, but learned (with a little coaching from me) to work together like the other groups were doing. At the end of three games, the consensus was that it was fun and ideas for future father/daughter events were discussed.
Sunday evening ended with a family outing for dinner at Lucille's, a local BBQ restaurant that Bethany selected.
On Monday, some friends with annual Disneyland passes (the deluxe kind that are not blacked out in August) took Beth for her free Disneyland day that the park offers. She took that chance to renew her annual pass (received on her fifteenth birthday) with a discount from her free ticket. We finished the night of her actual birthday with the family at home watching episodes of Smallville on DVD (we are getting around to watching those which I got for my birthday last year).
Labels: Bethany, Birthdays, Disneyland
# posted by - Rob @ 11:30 AM 
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Yes happy belated birthday!! Glad to hear your sweet 16 was filled with lots of fun and travel!
Ya did great there Rob!
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Ya did great there Rob!
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