My daughter's belated birthday party was held today. Smaller than 50% attendance. This time of the year is a very busy time for children's birthday parties and we were a bit late in sending the invitations. She was born in July and we have only once held a party for her friends at that time because many families travel in July. After the schools start in mid-August, most kids born in the summer have their birthday parties. My daughter had to change schools this year because Russian could not be studied as a foreign language in her old school. One of my daughter's new classmates had her party at the same hour and three of her new classmates from her school who were invited attended the birthday party of the other kid. The only kid from her new school was new to the school as well. Two of her old friends were out of the country.
In addition to my wife and myself, present were 