Birthday Decorations

If you have been reading along here for awhile, you have no doubt seen the decorations, etc. that go into having a birthday party here. When you are invited to a party at a salon de eventos (party place) you can be sure that the room will be decorated. They go all out with everything. At the end of the night the guests are expected/encouraged to take the decorations home with them. There are balloons everywhere, candies are wrapped up prettily, table centrepieces are lovely, goodie bags are given to everyone and are wrapped appropriate to the party theme, and of course, there are pinatas (yes, plural in a lot of cases). In other words there is no shortage of decorations.
This pictures below show a table centrepiece from a birthday party. The party was held at a salon de eventos which has water slides and kiddie pools, so the theme was sea/water related.
The bottom piece is styrofoam which is then painted and decorated. The next piece, the clear plastic container, holds small seashells and above that are toothpicks. The uppermost piece is a dolphin. When you tip the dolphin forward it activates a mechanism that pops out a toothpick and he picks it up with his mouth. Cute, eh? Each one of these was made by hand by someone in the family before the party and there are one or more of them on every table. An enormous amount of work goes into creating a party here.