Eustache's Graduation Party

08/10/2008. Eustache did not graduate, but that was the marketing angle for a party with his schoolmate from the school he left last month. Party was at Douglass Park.

Eustache was so busy playing (which today meant digging gopher holes) that there's no picture of the party boy, even though he insisted on wearing a buttoned shirt for the occasion. His favorite special occasion shirt.

The background of the picture above is a chocolate cake which I made and deserves its own picture:


It's rather time-consuming labor-intensive to make, but the result ended up pretty darn amazing. Recipe here. If you have 3 hours to spend, well worth the effort.

You can reserve a picnic table at Douglass Park, but we were too late doing so. You can also bring your own table, it's a public park after all and you don't need a permit if your party is not so large, but you may run into the ire of a deluded lady who convinced herself she had rented the whole park for her private party. She eventually apologized, but not the best way to start the day.