Amey tenth birthday

The traffic was pretty bad, and that let me see how majestic and beautiful the wind mills looked against the silver sky. A row of five six wind mill silhouettes rotating majestically against the silver sky plate. As I got closer,  the view reduced to one wind mill in all it's grandeur. 

I was to start at 5:00 PM, and reach by 5:45 PM for the party that is supposed to start at 6:00 PM.  GPS lady told me to turn right and I turned and got into a dark  parking lot. I came right out, and took the turn right after the wall, saw "Sky Zone" on the building, and parked right next to the gate. 

There were multiple doors all around the building, and I feared that I might walk through all the wrong ones before getting to the right counter. But no, I got to the right counter in first attempt. By now, it was already 6 PM. 

Manu came in, and he had a very different perspective on the traffic. He did not enjoy the windmill silhouettes. Abil was there with his wisdom and silence. Mahesh, Vijesh, Murali, Manohar came in with Tracy Hills brotherhood.  Had just met Sowmya(Vedant's mom) and Priyanka(Virat's mom). Luckily, they knew each other, and gave each other company. Gafoor and Ramshi showed up, Shiv dropped Sresht, Divya Vipin was calling me and I waved her over. We got a box to store our shoes, gifts etc, while kids put on the slip-proof socks and went up the ramp into the trampoline world. I remember how I had waited for Rameez to arrive before cutting Niya's birthday cake about forteen years back.Ramshi tried to get into the trampoline world but the kids did not let her cut the line apparently. 

Meanwhile, Divya video called, and got some glimpses of all the activity going on all around. It was like a stock market frenzy. The building definitely seemed to be at or even above capacity.  While the kids were jumping with joy, adults stood around and talked. Everything seemed hurried.

At 7 PM, the allotted time for jumping was over. And now, everyone was to go into the party room for eating pizza and cake.   We hung around, waiting to be kicked out from the trampoline area. Sure enough, Omar (our host) annouced over the PA system that Amey's birthday party guests are to get into party room 3.  Roped in the kids into the room.  Pepperoni and Cheese pizza was served. I got the ratio wrong, and should have ordered more cheese pizzas.  After pizza and cola was done,  our host Omar brought in the cake that I had given him for freeze keeping as I came in. He asked me if I had any candles. That is when I recalled that while I had called Mahesh and we had brought in the balloons and the return gifts, I had forgotten the 1 and 0 candle. I had run behind these candles earlier in the day as well. That is what happens when you are neither the big sheet cake, nor the pack of return gifts. You get left out. They were both lying face down in the back of the car as I picked them up, and hoisted them on the cake. They finally lit up with Omar's lighter.

The party room was all crammed with benches. Reminded me of old school class rooms.  Kittu blew the ligths off the  1 and 0 candles as kids sang Happy Birthday, I could not get my note right and join in for some reason. Kittu started cutting the cake. Our host Omar took over , and took care of cutting the rest of the cake, and sharing with the guests. Before we knew, it was eight, and the party was over.  Time for good byes. Sure enough, Gafoor was there to help carry the gifts to the car. We called Divya on the way home, and shared the details of the party.  And then we had a tough discussion on whether to spend the gift card money in the real world or in Roblox.