birthday parties in america and england tend to not only inelude eating but also some sort of an activity or two. often, for children between the ago of 10-14, they will have a "sleep-over" party. usually this kind of party is held on either friday or saturday night when the children do not have class the next morning. for this type of party, the birthday person invites apout 5-6 close fireds over for dinner, the children will eat cake and ice cream and the birthday personwill open his/her gifts. during the evening, the children may go bolwing or or ice-skating or goto a professional basketball or football game, or do something else. the children will often eat pizza at midnight and then talk and play games such as card games or computer games until the morning . in the morning , the mother will make a big breakfast of some special foods such as pancakes, fried bread or waffles with sausage, baconor eggs. then the children are picked up by their parents around 9:00 in the morning