Costume Party

We were invited to a children’s costume party yesterday afternoon to celebrate the end of Pust.  The party was put on by one of the women at the Embassy and took place at a large children’s center in Ljubljana.  Rosetta and Celia dressed up as bunny rabbits and Sy dressed up as a kid with bedhead in sunglasses.  The party was fantastic…there was a band playing children’s songs and the kiddo’s danced their (cotton)tails off to če ste zadovoljni in ti to veš (“If you’re happy and you know it”) and other songs we recognized.  In fact, we were having so much fun that we were there a full half-hour before realizing we were in the wrong room at the wrong party.

So, we changed venues.  And the kiddos had even more fun there.  There were legos, trains, art projects, and plenty of snacks.  Rosetta and Celia made Mardi Gras masks, and were very proud of themselves.  True to form, Sy was infatuated with the older boys who were beating on each other with toy swords, ate his and his sisters' shares of snacks, and we had to pry him away from the legos and trains when it was time to go.

As a couple of sidenotes… We learned yesterday that the Nebotičnik (the thirteen-story “skyscraper”) was the tallest building in southeastern Europe when it was completed in 1933.  So, us poking fun at the name was pure ignorance.  Also, Rosetta had a follow-up doctor appointment today and looks like she is doing just fine.  Let’s hope it continues!