SURPRISE!

[candyland]

Let me start by saying that my friends and I have never been good at surprise parties. We've tried to have them before, and they always get screwed up.

So this year, we decided to try again. My friend Lauren turned nineteen on Wednesday, so we decided to have the party on Friday, when she wouldn't be expecting it. Another friend, Cassie, is her roommate, so getting into the apartment was the easiest part. We had it all planned--Cassie had to work, but I got the day off. So she would leave the key under the plant on their front step. Lauren's mom would help us out by taking Lauren out for dinner to someplace with a long waiting list--they went to Red Lobster. And then we would get everything decorated and such. Then we'd surprise her when she got home.

Well...it started going wrong from the get-go. I picked up Kathy, and we picked up the cake and headed to the apartment. The key wasn't there. So we dropped the cake off at my house (it was a DQ Cake and needed to be in the freezer) and went to the mall to visit Cassie at work. When we asked her, she looked blank for a minute. Man, if she'd said that she had left the key under the plant, there might have been some trouble. But it turned out that she had just forgotten to leave it. We got the key, grabbed the cake, and headed back. Cassie had gotten the streamers and such, and so we found some tape and began decorating.

One by one the guests arrived, and we all got comfortable to wait. Cassie got home and got the food out. Finally, at about eight-thirty, Lauren and parents pulled up. We each grabbed a balloon and crowded around the door to wait.

I guess I should mention at this point that we could crowd around the door without being seen by Lauren because Lauren is legally blind.

But anyway, her parents brought her in, and we were trying reeeeeeeally hard not to crack up. But then she came in, and ran into the streamers we'd hung from the door connecting the porch with the rest of the house. Her face went totally blank, and Cassie gave us a count-off with her fingers, and we yelled "SURPRISE!" and pelted her with balloons. She never saw it coming.

The rest of the party went on as your typical sleepover will do. We listened to music, pigged out, watched her open presents, and played "Don't Let the Balloon Touch the Ground." We all (eventually) fell asleep--at about, oh, three in the morning. Ish.

Lauren and Cassie each slept in their beds, and Kathy took the floor in the hall. Rachel took the couch, and I got the floor. But when we woke up the next morning, I was on the couch, and Rachel was on the loveseat in the next room. We're still not sure how we got moved around, but it doesn't really matter. I was comfy when I woke up!

I ended up going out to lunch with my parents after I got home. Then I crawled into bed and napped for an hour before I had to go to work. Man, I was a total zombie. I feel bad for Dusty, having to work with me when I could barely keep my eyes open.

So then, as if I wasn't worn out enough, the dish washer in the laundry room decides to break down right as we all start closing. I mean, the back area by the sinks smelled like smoke. Very heavy, very gross, and very overwhelming. Ugh...we couldn't even get back there to do dishes until it had dissipated a little bit. Very nasty. But I came home and blissfully crawled into bed...where I promptly got insomnia.

Such is my life. But the party was fun ^__^

Comments

[kyteaura.livejournal.com]

LoLz. Great the surprise party turned out well. There was one little problem, but at least that was delt with. It's kind of weird how you end up where you ended up waking up that morning...Sleep walk? Too much pork grinds aren't good for you =P