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Entertaining:Tropical Fruit Shortcake for a preteen bday party

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One of my favorite girls, my second niece celebrated her birthday a couple of days ago. Last week, she had called us up asking for permission to use grandma's house for her birthday get-together. Well of course, lola immediately agreed since she happens to be a favorite. Our house is spacious and has a lot of equipment and supplies- an ideal place for entertaining. Besides who can refuse a request when she has already thought our her party through. "Oh well," says the events planning aunt.

I bring my nieces with me to work - when I go about preparing and executing parties for other people. They sort of get hired as junior helpers. When the kids were younger, I liked planning their birthday parties and would even bake the cakes and cookies . My siblings were too busy to plan and just liked giving me a budget to play around with.

Considering that my niece will be turning twelve she definitely said nono to those cutesy celebrations. She wanted an all girl hangout- they would be going swimming if it did not rain, come back to the house for snacks and to change , then being true girls would be spending the rest of the afternoon at the mall.

She said she would take care of the invitations herself. For the food she will serve, she still has to decide on the main pasta dish- whether it would be an Asian noodle or a taco sort of casserole. Of course she has to have auntie's standard dips, no party would be complete without chips now would it. I will be serving raita, a light indian dip for the veggies and a cheese loaded sour cream dip for all those chips .

To celebrate youth and vitality and the fact that we live in the tropics, she was going to have her guests come in their favorite summer attires in vibrant tropical colors. Mostly teenagers and pubescent girls can get away with the neon colors she suggested - lime green, mango yellow, orange, violet colored shirts will be the standard attire.

She wasn't going to serve much since the party was highly informal. She however emphasized that she will be serving homemade bubble tea. Now gotta remember to bring out the blenders now. I told her that it would be a good idea to be limiting her flavors to three choices, so she chose mango bango, lychee coconut and a four fruit combo- all in keeping with her tropical theme.