Ahoy, It’s a Swashbuckling Kids Party Venue!

function room hire MelbourneMy mum didn’t believe me when I told her that a pirate taught me to ice skate on my tenth birthday. She couldn’t understand how I’d learned, on my first day of skating, to balance on one leg, without the skate aid to save me from a nasty fall. It was dad who’d found the place – he’d searched ‘kids party venues Melbourne’ and up popped the ice rink on his browser. But neither of them had seen the one-legged swashbuckler except for me and my little sister. It started when all the other kids discovered that they had better balance than me. The first few tries I fell hard on my backside and couldn’t get up again until the instructor smiled kindly and hoisted me almost over her shoulder. Everyone else laughed at me. Everyone except the captain and his emerald green parrot.

The sixth time I lost my balance and slammed onto the thick ice, I accidentally took my sister down with me, and she began to cry. The pirate zoomed towards us, like a gracious one-legged seagull, and offered his peg leg as a rail to pull ourselves up.

‘Aye, let me show you the ropes!’ He announced with a grin, and his parrot nodded in agreement. He taught us how to balance our body weight on one leg, and his parrot, Alf, spread his wings and demonstrated how we could use our arms to fly along the ice. Pretty soon, I was doing pirouettes around the other party goers and carving spirograph-like patterns in the ice.

I’d first seen him standing beneath the sign that read ‘function room hire’. Melbourne weather was sweltering and it was a relief to be in the cool chill of the rink. But even I, with my vivid imagination, thought it was strange to see a pirate at my birthday party, especially when the theme of my party was dinosaur. My little sister, her pterodactyl wings now sprouted with confidence, whooped at the other kids as she skated circles around them, and I, brontosaurus head held high, whooshed behind her.

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