Happy Birthday, Goatherder

Two years ago, Newt, Stick and I decided to have a surprise birthday party for Heidi. We decided that having it in Mapleton was the easiest, so we had to come up with a ruse by which to get Heidi out of the house and back into it without ruining the surprise. Fortunately, Newt is a genius and single, so she came up with a cunning plan. She got one of her many mathy single male friends to ask her out with the condition that she "find a date" for his roommate. Newt asked Heidi if she would go, and Heidi (to our general relief) agreed. The date was actually the day after Heidi's birthday, if I recall right.

We went for a fiesta theme, so we ordered this tres leches cake from the local Mexican bakery with an English-speaking staff memeber:



Stick and I made the food and set up while Heidi and Newt went on their date. Unfortunately Heidi's date's roommate broke his leg just late afternoon before the date, so he had to take him to the hospital. This meant they left for dinner later than expected. So the surprise party guests ate, hung out and worked on a word search about Heidi (in Spanish!) while waiting for the guest of honor to come.





Heidi in the meantime finally finished dinner, at which point the guys told her and Newt that they needed to blindfold them to take them to their next destination. If you've ever been on a date at the G.O.D.University, then you'll know that really wasn't that unusual. Somehow it all worked out, and they brought Heidi home, where she surprised us! (In the commotion of the date, they forgot to call and tell us they were on their way) Stick threw the 1000 paper cranes she'd been folding at her and it was quite exciting.





Now relieved of the anticipation, we could relax and play those classic party games, like pin the tail on the burro:



And of course, beat the effigy of Heidi's favorite animated supergirl (ok, not really beating, but that is what we would have done, had it not been the middle of winter; instead we got to pull on strings, hoping to get the one that released the trap):



And just generally enjoy the smooth sounds of latin music provided by Venom.








At least it looked like a party by the time it was over.