S/O birthday parties

[brachysira]

An indoor waterpark about an hour from here has a birthday package that includes 10 passes.  I know some people who have done that as their party for their 4/5/6 year olds.  But for 4, definitely parents would have to come plus parents would have to drive their kids there.  We would need to use 3 passes for our family, could offer passes to 2 pairs of sibling invites (4) and a single friend (1).  We could offer to buy a pass for 1 adult in each family but let a 2nd adult, if coming, pay themselves?  Sound reasonable?  Will our friends even want to do that?  I would ask each one before we decided on it, I guess.

[dc2london]

For a water park, I would want to be there to supervise my child, but I don't think I would appreciate being expected to pay for myself. However, if I brought a 2nd adult or extra kids to make a family thing out of it, I would plan to pay for them. So I think your plan sounds good.

[brachysira]

Yeah, friend 1 has a little sister who is 2 but always plays with us, so she's invited. Also a tiny brother, but I hope he's free. Or maybe the tiny one and dad can stay at home, but then mom would have to handle a 4 year-old and 2 year-old herself. But it's a small waterpark.

Friend 2 has a big brother but DD adores him so he's invited. But if dad stays home, then mom has a 6 year-old and a 3 year-old by herself.

Friend 3 has a tiny brother and I'd hope that big bro would just attend with his mom, but she never wants to leave the tiny one. So his dad may come too.

[brachysira]

@uncaripswife, we wouldn't invite people from school or people we don't know, but we play with 2 of the above several x/week, so I feel like they are people who would do this as a daytime playdate except now we're paying so they'd want to come even more. Friends 2 have working parents and go to school all day so we rarely see them but I know they love this place and go for fun, so I think they'd be in too...

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Nov 30, 2016 11:39:55 GMT -5 @uncaripswife said:

Honestly, if my kid was invited to a party that I had to drive an hour each way to get to, I'd be even less inclined to come.

But maybe I'm just a birthday curmudgeon.

I typically would agree but we moved an hour away last year and frequently travel 1 to 1.5 hours each way to see our friends so this distance doesn't bother me.