all dressed up

and ultimately no where to go.

a grandmother on our block cornered hege last week and practically begged that hennie & mette come to her grandson's 5th birthday party (we don't know the child or mother at all - never even seen them). natrually hege agreed. but when she asked when and where, Rose told her it was on Friday night from 7-10 PM! waaaaayyyyy out in brooklyn (out near JFK airport). I was angry about it all week; could not believe that someone would be stupid enough to have a birthday party (at a rented indoor playground) until 10 oclock at night?! our girls go to bed at 8. but they were so excited, we had to do it, and planned to stay for only an hour.

here they are dressed up and ready - we drove all the way out, getting lost twice, and walked into the place. an employee and the mother walked up to us with a very confused look on their face and we told them we were there for Noah's party. they looked at our invitation and politely noted that Hege had confused the RSVP date with the actual party date, which was one week later.

we earnestly apologized to the girls and drove off to find some icecream. remarkably, they took it all in stride.