Rhea's birthday party at Toys'R'Us

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Rhea's birthday was at Toys'R'Us. Which is a toy store, but they have a room, by their playscape where they arrange birthday parties.
After Rhea's party , i highly recommend it.

Rhea's party had a Princess theme, which means, she had Disney Princess cake,
princess plates, cups...and you get the idea.We had a total of 15 kids:Rohan, Ryan of course, cousins Katelyn and Allison, neighbour :Trudy, and friends
from day care : Kate, Ashley, Molly, Stephanie, Rachel, Makena, Jed, Joshua and
Phillip.First they all started by painting, with crayons, a "Happy Birthday" banner for
Rhea.

Then they had face painting and tattos, all the kids got in line for both.and
got them multiple times. Rhea knew it was "her day" of course and i saw her
cutting in line a couple of times.
Then they had the scavenger hunt. The scavenger hunt consists of clues all along
the store (in an order in which, the kids get to see all the cool toys that are
available in the store so they can pester the parents to buy them) the kids go together..they run ,walk , walk fast , scoot,
and hop at various points during the hunt and are led by the two Toys'R'Us employees (both teenagers) who were organizing the party and who were very good.. Everytime they find a clue (a folded sheet of paper), to get the paper to open and to read it, the kids would have to loudly shout (" Happy Birthday Rhea").11 kids shouting is a lot of shout. And they did this all over the store. so everybody knew it was Rhea's birthday.

The first clue was something to the effect of "I love to hang upside down from a
tree....etc...) Answer: Monkey (so they go to the soft toy section of the store
and find another clue) the kids have to guess the answer, and they were pretty
good at it..The second clue was i'm tall , and blond, and have a lot of pretty
dresses etc. Answer:Barbie. "How does Barbie travel ? Does she walk?" asked the Toys'R'Us host.To which Ashley piped up quite innocently " But she's *not* real..."Note to self: Do not let Ashley talk to Rhea about Santa Claus.The answer was "A Car". One of the other clues was "I swing across buildings, and can even climb up them" Ashley was confident it was "Diego" (from Go Diego Go, and Dora the Explorer)
Everyone else said "Spiderman". Ashley wasn't convinced.
The trail eventually leads them to a treasure chest. Which is a chest full of candy and other goodies. All the kids were told to pick 3 candy bars. Some picked 4/5. Katelyn picked four, so Rhea kept telling her sternly "You're only supposed to pick 3 Katelyn" until Fiona stepped in and said it was ok.

Then they all returned to the room, where we had cake and pizza, and fruit drinks. Rhea blew all the candles out in a single blow, so that was impressive.
Once we were done with the cake and pizza it was time for the pinata. we had a heart shaped princess pinata that we had stuffed with goodies that fiona had bought, like candy, kids sunglasses, blow pops, and other stuff that kids love. It was a string pinata, so all the kids hold a string at the bottom of the pinata and pull and that releases the candy.The kids then put this into their goody bags. And then go home, eat all the candy and drive their parents nuts.
As if that was not enough, we had also arranged for all the kids to get a plastic ziploc bag, that they can then go to the ToysRUs candy stand and fill up to the "grey line" on the bag.And they have a huge assortment of candy..so the kids love it. Of course this time they were supervised by the parents. (who would pick candy *they* liked)
Then it was time to leave..All in all, all the kids had a great time. Even rohan and ryan, who were in a playpen watching most of the time. They were pretty happy too, since they got to eat some cake..And everytime we would take them out, they would make a break for it, crawling to the door of the room and trying to leave.Rhea got a lot of cool gifts too, but more on that later..