Iris Mauss

Wow.

Lots of games that I had thought of and decorations, of course.

My friend, who's an amazing baker, made this enormous, stunning cake.

And, of course, we had pizza.

That's exactly right.

Ecstatic the whole time, frolicking, bathed in golden rays of sunlight, exactly like that.

Well, the first thing that happened was that this is in June and it never rains in the Bay Area in June, never, except that one day.

And it was raining the morning of the party.

So we had to sort of switch gears, like sort of texted everybody, come a little later, hoping, crossing my fingers, so it would stop raining.

We still went to the park to set up because my son was very impatient and intent on having his party.

So we go in the rain.

We're setting everything up.

We're getting drenched.

And of course, people, I told them to come a little later.

But my son had the start time of the party in his head, 11 o'clock.

And 11 o'clock comes.

Nobody is there yet.

And he starts to lose it.

And I still sort of have that image in my head of him sort of standing in the rain, getting drenched, falling.

Yeah, I was really upset.