As for the party; we had it at Chuck E Cheese. We didn't invite a lot of people, as you pay per kid and it would have been unaffordable. We had the party reserved for six kids, three of them our kids, my cousin's kid who is WL's age, a friends son who is also WL's age, and the daughter of RR's kindergarten teacher. My cousin and her daughter didn't show up. For the second year in a row. I've kind of decided to stop inviting her even though she is WL's best friend. Mostly because next year we're probably going to have the same limit on kids and I don't want WL to be let down again.
BUT, none of that is really the point of this post. This post is about the cake.
Yesterday when hubby and I went to pick up the cake it get's handed to us and it just... It was all wrong. I mean pretty much everything was wrong. I actually used to pick up the cake the day before so that if something was wrong there was plenty of time to fix it. But since CL came along we have been picking up the day of, mostly to avoid fingers in the cake after a few incidences of that, and everything had been fine.
So we ordered WL a baby shower cake, she picked it out because of the crown and wand, we also instructed them to put a printed picture of Rapunzel on the center of the cake, and changed the border color from a darker pink than the background pink to purple (because Rapunzel is pink and purple). Not that complicated.
What we were handed was nothing at all like what we ordered. AT ALL. First the background was white, not the pink it was supposed to be. Then the purple border was shells. it was supposed to be a ribbon. the bottom border was supposed to be ruffles, it was shells. AND her name was spelled wrong.
Now to set the stage, it is an hour before the party, at Chuck E Cheese so being late isn't really a good thing because the party end time doesn't change just because you are late. First my husband and I are just like her name is wrong. And after that we realize that the price we were quoted is wrong and it is more expencive than that because we ordered two kits (the crown and wand, and then the Rapunzel picture). And then I'm just like I really don't want to pay that much, hell, I really don't want to pay for this cake at all because EVERYTHING is wrong.
My husband goes over and grabs the book and bring it over, to show this woman what the cake was supposed to look like, just with Rapunzel added. and the Lady's eyes go a little bit big because the cake we were given looks NOTHING like the cake in the picture. We're like but we're stuck with this because there isn't time to change it. So she says if you can give me half an hour I an remake it. Hubby and I look at each other and decide it is doable we'll be a few minutes but not extremely late and we'll have my mom bring the kids instead of going back home to grab them on the way to the party.
She ended up having to just rip the icing off the cake because they didn't have any more marble cakes in the back and re-icing the whole thing. This woman did an amazing job, and I am so grateful, I was so worried that WL was going to be devastated that this cake that she picked out was nothing like what she pictured. I don't want my kiddo in tears at her birthday party. No mom does.
In the end it all worked out, we got there about five minutes late and everything was fine other than it took me half of the party to destress from being so wound up picking up her cake.
And here is the fixed finished product. I didn't get a picture of the wrong one, because I didn't bring my phone in because I didn't think there would be anything I would want to take a picture of. But as you can see, nothing like what I described the original looked like. So now we will ALWAYS schedule pickup for the day before the party, so there is plenty of time for things to get fixed.
-Cathrin
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