 Welcome back to my YouTube channel guys. Today let's talk about kid birthday parties. Are they the same? Are they different? New Zealand to the U.S.? Well we're going to find out today. We're going to check it out. So I'm going to take you on a trip on my kids birthday party and talk a little bit about what I've noticed the differences because I've had four kids and so I know what the birthday parties are like in the U.S. and I know what they're like in New Zealand. So let's talk about it today. So stay tuned. Subscribe below. Hit the bell. Here we go. This video is sponsored by Squarespace. Squarespace is a great all-in-one platform to get your business online quickly. All right well it's a cracker of a day here in Wellington as they say in New Zealand. Look at me learning the terminology but yeah so do you like my glasses? My teenagers think I look ridiculous in these but you know they were a whole five dollars. Anyway today we are going to take my son on his birthday trip with some friends. We're going to go to Mission Inflatable which is this huge inflatable place but it's really big. So I really like this one. So I think we're gonna have a really good time and it's just a beautiful day out and so I thought I would do a video on the differences of kid birthday parties in New Zealand compared to the U.S. and are they different? Are they the same? You know what's different? What's the same? And so I'm just going to highlight a couple of them for you here before everybody gets in the car and it becomes really loud and it's a lot of kids. So basically the food I would say is quite different. So at like a kid birthday party you're going to see fairy bread. If you don't know fairy breaded it's literally just white bread with some butter on it and some sprinkles. Certain sprinkles like the round sprinkles I believe. I feel like you can't put the other ones on there. Correct me if I'm wrong but fairy bread is a common at a kid birthday party. They also have these Cheerios which are these. There's another name for them. I can't think of it but it's like a really red hot dog. Small and you just like pick it up and I don't know. I think you eat it hot, cold. I think it'd go either way. It's a it actually tastes the most like an American hot dog of anything that I've tried. But it is so red that it's hard to eat. And so that you see at kid birthday parties obviously you'll see chips. They also have like the Kiwi Dip which is like you know just like an onion soup mixed with some cream and that's always really good. And so yeah so they have that and like maybe some soda and cake and ice cream and you know there's variety and sausage rolls. Sausage rolls are big like mini little pies maybe that sort of thing at a New Zealand kid birthday party. So at an American kid birthday party you're going to have it's going to be a wide variety depending on where you live in the country but like think hot dogs but then if they're if you have a family that's really vegan and healthy it's going to be no sugar. It's going to be no dairy, no eggs or whatever you know. You kind of always have to be aware of that because people can be quite sensitive about making sure that that is there. Or at least you know some people some people moms are fine and they just like pack something separate for their kid if they have allergies and others are are you going to provide vegan for us? Is it going to be is it going to have sugar in it? You know so I would say before the rise of peanut allergies and vegan vegetarian and dairy you know allergies I think would be like hot dogs, soda, you know chips. You know you know what they have in America that they don't have here that you see at parties is what is it called a fruit pizza. Have you ever heard of a fruit pizza? So basically it's awesome. It's like a sugar cookie. It's the crust. It's the crust of the pizza. Then you have like this cream cheese sugary spread that you put on top of that and then you just cut up fresh fruit and you put it on it. It's like a dessert pizza so it's like a they call it fruit pizza but it's a dessert pizza. That's fun. That's a fun party. So it all depends probably on the age of your kid but you know it's just like your typical snacks like Doritos or Pringles and you know and also have cake and ice cream and then some people in America you know go all out and have like big huge parties. I don't know about you but I have been putting off creating my website until I found my solution with Squarespace. You guys are going to love this product. They have so many beautiful templates to choose from. 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Take some time today to go to squarespace.com and check out your free trial and then when you're ready to purchase your website or your domain you get 10% off with the link below. I would say in terms of what you do at a party in New Zealand compared to the US isn't a huge difference but I would say a little bit different. Like what I noticed because I have four kids and I've been to a lot of birthday parties in America and then when I came and we got invited to birthday parties here what I really liked about New Zealand is that they always had the kids doing something. Like it was very common to say let's have a birthday party you know at the laser tag place or where we're going to go bowling or we're going to go outside and do this climbing activity whatever it was was always active which I really liked because I feel like in the States it was more like for us you know and then it could just be where I lived but like it would just be going to someone's house or you know so I would take my kids and some friends to something you know like maybe to a play or you know depending on what they liked. I definitely took my son to like a baseball game like that would be normal because sporting events are fun and there's always a lot of them but yeah but I don't I wouldn't say that that was more of the norm where I feel like in New Zealand more of the norm is to actually go out and do something and get the kids tired and da da da da which is really smart because you really don't want like I don't want like last year true story last year I had I don't know six or seven different boys at my house that were what eight or nine years old no I'm not doing that again going out and doing an activity where you're burning energy that's what we're doing that's what we're gonna do yes because I was so exhausted after that and I actually went and had a parent teacher conference after that and talked to him like I appreciate all that you do I don't know how you have 30 of these I had six of them for two hours and I was like oh my gosh you know because my kids are relatively calm and I forget that probably not everybody is like that and so that was a bit of a shock but anyway so birthday parties New Zealand us a lot similar and a little bit of difference so let's go on our trip to mission inflatable we survived mission inflatable I'm not sure my knee did but we'll see what tomorrow brings the boys are really tired so that mission was accomplished and it was just a great day out so if you enjoy this content subscribe below and check out my new webpage kiwiamericans.com and my new recipe book but also thank you to Squarespace for sponsoring this video and I will see you guys next week