what did you do for your child's 5th birthday?

My son is turning 5 in March and I want some ideas on what to do.
He has picked about a million different themes he wants lol.
Nothing to outrages though. Money is tight.

ill probably do a small birthday party at either chuck e cheese or maybe just have people over for cake and icecream... and then take him to the aquarium since thats what we usually do, is give him his own special day

This is the first birthday we are away from all our family. :/

My daughters 5th birthday, we invited some of her friends and family to the park for a picnic lunch. Everyone brought a plate of food, and we all just shared it. We all ate, the kids played. They had lots of fun, I had no cleaning. Was a good day  
But we don't do parties every year. Normally that's all we do. Little casual get togethers in a park or something.

We took Amanda to the Aquarium for her 5th birthday. It was so much fun and she thoroughly enjoyed the experience and all of the different fish. We live in PA so we had to travel to Baltimore but it was well worth it!

We just celebrated my daughters fith birthday last Monday. We went to chuck e cheese with family then took her to babies r us to pick out a present . She was super happy to have a special day for herself she didn't care about a party or anything.

We celebrate my son's 5th birthday this summer. I've booked the arcade for him and we are having a Mario theme per his request.
I really wanted to have it at the waterpark, but it's peak tourist season & I cannot handle that. lol