Celebrating Carlotta

On the 20th of July it was Carlotta`s sixth birthday. She has become a big girl. Lots of things have happened during the summer and in many ways she really has grown.
On her birthday my parents were in S. Petersburg, so I invited two friends of mine whose girls are about Carlotta's age and who we see quite often when we are in Finland. They both were my classmates when we were at school and our children get along very well.
We baked oat cakes the night before and made a cake and bought some sweets. The weather was nice so the children could play out in the garden and we could drink our coffee outside. Carlotta was very happy with her little birthday party.
I got this template from Maybemej, but used different colours in it.

As my parents weren't there and Carlotta wanted to celebrate with them too, we went out to have lunch this Friday to Kärkisaari. We usually go to this summer restaurant once every summer and love the atmosphere there. A few years ago the place got new owners and isn't as good as it used to be, but the place in itself still is wonderful. This time I must say the service was a bit awkward. They always have cold starters and and then you can choose either meat or fish for the main course. I ordered to the children (they don't have any special children menu) who all wanted meet and when it was time to order for us adults they told us that they had ran out of meat and only had fish. I don't like fish, so I said, I preferred meet. The waitress, who I suspect is also the owner of the place, asked me why I didn't like fish when you get so intelligent when you eat it and suggested I could eat my children's leftovers from their plates. Nice, I said and when she asked if my parents wanted fish and they answered that there obiously was no choice, they said that they could always decide not to eat at all! Never heard a waitress giving those kinds of answers to a client... Well, in the end I did eat what the children left, as both Carlotta and Sofia hardly ate anything, so the problem wasn't that there wasn't enought to eat, but the very strange way to treat their guests. Otherwise the food was nice and the cake good. But I'm not sure if we will go there to celebrate Carlotta's birthday next time.
Me and Daniele went there with our bicycles. It's about 12 km one way, so we burned off at least a little part of our meal.