My Birthday Trilogy Part 1 - The Party

I am doing sort of a birthday trilogy, I like to call it, about my birthday this year and this is the first part. I am going to be talking about the party I had three days before my birthday.

The guests were Elizabeth, Elisha, Manvi, Alyssa, Conor, Pierce and Grace. Including me, that is eight people.

We had so much fun! Elisha arrived an hour and a half early, and when it became close to time we sat at the window, and began stalking people. The second person to arrive was Manvi and she joined us along with Alyssa and Liz. Then, we started making pizzas.

For toppings we had, pepperoni, sausage, hamburger, mushrooms, olives and onions. I think that's all we had. Conor, Pierce and Grace came a little bit later, and we started a game of Who Am I?

After that, we played the create a scavenger hunt game. On one team we had Elisha, Pierce, Manvi and Grace. On the other we had me, Alyssa, Elizabeth and Conor, the only guy on our team :). We were supposed to make a scavenger hunt for each other in search of four large cookies and cream Hershey bars for each one of us. And a Peachwave gift card for everyone, but me. The other teams' was harder than ours.

Then, if I'm remembering correctly, we got our personally made pizzas and went downstair to be embarrassed by watching ourselves in Water Molecules and A Midnight Summer's Dream, two plays I wrote a LONG TIME AGO (so if you ever see them don't judge!).

That was the perfect time to announce that we were going to do a create a film activity. The teams were Conor, Pierce, Grace and Alyssa and me, Elizabeth, Manvi and Elisha. We each chose numbers to get four random props in which we had to include somehow in a film which we get to make up. Then later, the teams switched props and did it again!

Before we watched them though, we created desserts in which the teams were Elizabeth, Elisha, Grace and Alyssa and Me, Conor, Pierce and Manvi. It just so happened that the other team got the ingredient that went together best, marshmallows, whipped cream and oreos, and our team got cocoa puffs, caramel and nilla wafers, which go together in NO SHAPE OR FORM! What we didn't know was that, at the end there were names at the bottom of the bowls in which we were supposed to give that dessert too. Believe me, there was ALOT OF COMPLAINING when people got the one my team made. But, oh well.

Then we ate our desserts and watched our film. It was hilarious! There was one which was a funny commercial for resolve cleaner (OURS), one with pudding in a hat which is as clean as soap and water can make it, even though they're dogs (THEIRS), one in which a man comes onto a cooking show and begs some girl who doesn't know him to marry her (OURS), one in which a man battles germs (THEIRS).

Then we opened presents, which I will be talking about in the second book of our trilogy.

Last, but not least, we played the Dictionary game, which sounds REALLY BORING but it's REALLY FUN! We split up into four teams, Manvi and Elisha, Pierce and Elizabeth, Alyssa and Conor and me and Grace. One team finds a word which no one knows the definition of, and writes down the real definition while the other teams write down fake definitions which they THINK might be the real one. Then, when all the definition are in everyone, besides the team that put the real definition in, votes on which one they think is the real one. You get points for guessing the right one, and tricking people into thinking YOUR definition is the real one. Manvi and Elisha won, followed by me and Grace and then, I'm not positive, I think it was Liz and Pierce then Conor and Alyssa.

It was really fun, and I'm glad everyone was able to come!