Surprise Surprise Aaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Jones celebrated her birthday in shock yesterday.

HISTORY

She was in India for her sisters wedding and told Carter that she will be back on 6^th Jan, the day after her birthday and would surprise him by coming on the 5^th. Carter heard of the plans somehow and he made plans of his own to surprise her.

PRELUDE

We all gathered at Carters place and had a round of music, beers, colas, Christmas sweets, finger food etc etc. Boy this guy is a good host and a bloody good cook. May his tribe increase! We made fun of Mello [she didn’t know that and she too laughed at the jokes], discussed Jones rabbits who now sat as decoration on her pillows and praised Carters cooking. Tashu made plenty of demands for certain songs with the comment, “ I never ask for anything,” before each song.

THE EAGLE HAS LANDED

Peter then went to pick her up from the airport and gave us a missed call to say that they were close by. We cleared up the place as if no one had ever been there and we hid in the bedroom after we put the candle on the cake with the numericals 52 instead of 25.

DARK ROOM

Then we switched off the lights and waited. Merv was the last to enter the room and he comes in strumming the guitar in the dark and says, “This is going to be the pitch.” Lol. Lol. Lol. We had such a laugh. Poor Merv he always is so diligent about everything. Then Lynn slapped Mello in the dark. Now no one really knows what happens but my take is that Mello was thinking about Peter and she said out aloud that he is so handsome and Lynn gave her one with the hand to remind her that she and Peter were hand in hand. That did not dampen Mello’s spirits though and she went on to think out aloud that maybe we were being the ones fooled and they would yell surprise at us as they entered. Mello always is entertaining. Vee and I laughed till we cried. First Merv and then Mello.

AAAAAAAGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Then we heard the doorbell and we could hear voices. Then footsteps. And more voices. Finally the door opened slowly. And instead of shouting surprise Vee goes, “aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.” [To our surprise Jones was dressed in a hot sweater and all. I guess that was going to be a surprise for Carter later that night that she had planned.] Jones looked shocked, saw my face, yelped, “AAAAGGHHHHHHHHHH,” and ran back to Carter cos she was so scared. She finally recovered and starting pounding Peter. Smack, Dishh, Sock, Crunch, Biff, Dishum.

Then we cut the cake, sang Happy Bday and had a good time.