Emi’s birthday treat
13th October and weekend 15th -16th October
Emilka was celebrating her 15th birthday too, so balloons and presents arranged the night before for her to wake up to was done as always – the same arrangement 15 consecutive years. She was happy to be able to open her small number of presents during the day when time permitted between her online school lessons.
After a delicious Italian dinner on her birthday on Wednesday, Emilka had chosen to have her two best friends in Colombo to come for a play date on Friday afternoon and one stayed for a sleepover. They danced, they played on PC and Xbox, they went swimming upstairs, they had chocolate cookies, they had pizza (yes, again!), they chatted, and they watched a movie – The beauty and the Beast and they were together. Covid permitted.
The next day, I prepared an afternoon tea for 10 people and armed with all the food and a cake made the day before (we tried our best to do a Harry Potter themed cake), 2 cars full of extended family drove to Celyon Horse Riding club for Emi and her two friends to have a 30min lesson (Emi on her favourite Valentina of course) and a simple celebration to top her birthday off. He horse riding was Rajeev, our Nepalese friend’s kind birthday treat. It was a very hot and humid afternoon, full of flies and mosquitos, but Emi was in her element with her loving animals and two dear friends.
Rennie