Medieval Times

We try to have one large birthday "Bash" type party for the kids every summer. During the year on their actual birthdays we have small family parties, but in the summer we throw one huge party where they invite all their friends and have a big, fun Birthday Blowout.

This year we canceled the party because their Godmother, who was very generously having the "Bash" at her house this year, had to go out of state for cancer treatment. [Please keep the Monkeys' Godmother in your prayers for a complete recovery].

So, we decided instead to take the kids to Medieval Times for their joint birthday celebration. Medieval times is a kind of dinner theater where you have a Medieval feast while watching a show of Knights and jousting and all kinds of Medieval games of skill. It was really fun and interesting!

We went last night, along with my sister and the children's Godparents and "God brothers and sisters". [One of the children has a different set of Godparents, so these are the ones that belong to several of the other monkeys].

It was a blast!

The kids REALLY enjoyed it, and it was fun for the adults too. The show was really excellent, our waiter was wonderful, the food was good [they even had really awesome vegetarian food available for the vegetarians in our group], and it was really just a wonderful evening all the way around.

Here are some of the kids in front of the big Medieval Times mural outside the show:



Here is our family [minus me!], from left to right: The Monkey Daddy holding Monkey5, Monkey4, Monkey1, Monkey3, Monkey2, and their Aunt [my sister]:



Here is "The Boy aka: Monkey2" [on the right] with his God brother:



Here is Monkey3 [also on the right] with her God sister:



Here is Monkey1 [in the middle] with two of her God sisters:



Here is Monkey5. She wasn't sure what to think in the beginning, but she ended up having the time of her life:



Here is Monkey4 with her God sister [and best friend in the whole world] with Monkey3 behind them:



Here is a rare pic of me, holding Monkey5:



After the show, the kids got to meet the "Blue Knight" [the guy we cheered for in our section] and the Princess. They got autographs and it was all very exciting! Here is a picture of some of them with the Blue Knight and the Princess:



All in all it was a great evening! Happy Birthday Monkeys!!!! Hope you had a great celebration!