The afternoon saw Charlize's 2nd birthday party, at KSpace. There were about 15 kids there, plus one or both parents for each. Nick didn't come as he needed to study. Emily was surprisingly very shy at first. She seemed nervous even with lots of children to play with and her friend there to greet her.
After playing a while we tucked into the buffet food. There was some reasonably healthy stuff but Emily got her hands on a large cookie and scoffed most of it before I had a chance to whisk it away! Afterwards we trooped down to the 'gym' (which was where we used to go for the classes) to play for half an hour or so.
Emily immediately became her usual self and was laughing a lot. Then it was back upstairs for the cake, which was humungous and very rich: chocolate sponge with thick chocolate butter icing and icing balloon decoration. Charlize had a go at blowing out the candles then an older boy piled in, but I noticed that he was dribbling on it as he blew and made a mental note of which part was affected. Towards the end a member of staff came in wearing a Kokomo costume and Emily was transfixed, though she was too nervous to go and shake his furry hand.
In the evening Nick and I watched a subtitled Japanese horror movie: Dark Water. I had originally felt like seeing some comedy but we'd watched all our funny DVDs recently so I suggested we see this one instead because it was still in the wrapper though I had bought it at least two years ago. It's a chiller, and though there's no blood at all it is really frightening in places. I gripped Nick's arm throughout, and afterwards I felt too scared to even go in the bathroom alone and various scenes played back in my head for ages before I could sleep.
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