Henry turned 7 this year. He wanted a Portal party. I was excited to do another Portal party. I got my Portal-obsessed older son to help me. I made a giant companion cube, GLaDOS, buttons, and Turret. We had planned to do an escape room-like experience, but then Henry threw us a curveball. He wanted to invite friends and have it at the space park. Time to pivot!
True to form I put the wrong date on the invites so we had 3 celebrations. Why am I like this? The first party was on his birthday. He had been asking for a cake from my Harry Potter cookbook for months. It was a bear to make and I don't know how much he actually liked it, but he got his cake!
This is where it gets convoluted. I put the 9th instead of the 6th on the invite so of course no one showed up. We had fun anyway and it was a good run-through of the game. I had 2 mega buttons that we put around the park and the players had to put the cube on one and a person on the other one to win the level. We also had turrets, people wore a badge with a picture of a turret on one side and the phrases they say on the other. The adults were the turrets. In the game, they shoot bullets so I gave them laser guns. I didn't get any portal guns made, so they had the laser guns too. Charles was the High Energy Pellet dispersal person. He was equipped with an orange bouncy ball to throw at the players.
At one point Henry put me on the button!
I made propulsion and repulsion gel.
Wheatly is a character from Portal2 so he is represented by the balloon. Henry really enjoyed it. We recruited a few kids from the park to play too. So overall the first attempt was a success. Then we went home for cake and presents.
The Cake is a Lie! In Portal they promise you a Black Forest cake as a reward if you complete the game, it is never given to you. To make mine a lie, I made a chocolate cake, but it's not black forest. On to party two!
The setup was faster and we had to rescue the button a few times from kids, but Grandpa Ron came and our neighbor too so that was fun. This time Henry decided to be the Pellet distributer, unfortunately, this meant he slammed the ball in our neighbor's face. Whoops. She had never played Portal so it took a bit to explain the game, but they ended up playing three times, so this was a Triumph. A huge success.
Cake portaling away
Just me and my cube.
Henry was being extra sneaky and put the button under here.
After the game, we had to euthanize our companion cube.
It was surprisingly hearty, we had to have Grandpa hit it to open it up! Everyone was excited to get the candy, but no one more so than Devon! Since he finally had his spacers removed he can now have sticky candy again. We finished with PJ&J sandwiches shaped like the Aperture symbol, more repulsion gel, conversion gel, (ice cream), and cake.
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