Charlie's Pirate Party

It's hard to believe, but Charlie is now five! After a bit of persuading away from some fairly difficult sounding party themes we managed to convince him that a pirate party would be the go.  He then became very excited in the lead up. Flick made some great costumes for him and Jamie and weaved her usual magic with a treasure chest cake.  I was quite proud of my pirate treasure hunt, complete with rhyming clues on ancient parchment (OK, tea soaked copy paper with burnt edges).  Unfortunately, I ran out of time and energy to make a birthday music mix CD.

We had about 16 kids on the day and think that a good time was had by all. It was also the debut event for our new back lawn and in spite of it being early August we had a cloudless and windless afternoon reaching 21 degrees.

Many thanks to Granny Susan, who stayed with us for a couple of weeks during the party lead up and has been the first to "test drive" sleeping in the cottage.

Pirate Cubby Ship

Pirate pass the parcel on the lawn

The first clue (click to enlarge)

Pirate Eamon leads the crew through the woods.

Ben reads the next clue

On the way to find clue four

The final clue was on the foot bridge above the water fall

And thar be the treasure, me hearties!

What's the time Mr Pirate? Jamie's turn

Walking the plank

Pirate treasure cake