Enjablog

Woo!

Ian and I started Saturday out with a quick trip to Costco for some last minute snacks for our party. He did some cleaning while I baked up some cookies. We finished much earlier than expected, so we took a break and went down to the pool and then headed over to Toys R Us for some Animal Crossing awesomeness. We spent almost an hour at Toys R Us trying to get the 6th Mario item, but with Ian’s diligence, we finally succeeded. Also, thanks to Sonny for looking up and double-checking the number of items we were trying to get.

Got home and finished up some dishes before Sean arrived a little early to have dinner with us. Soon after, people started showing up. Sonny and Ben had decorated a cake and brought it over to ensure that we had a party:

It was so cool. The cake was hollowed out and filled with Reese’s pieces. The sand surrounding the cake was crushed up vanilla wafers, in which they hid pieces of gold. I wish I had taken a picture with the lid open, but it really was a pretty authentic cake treasure chest.

Anyway, about a dozen people showed up: friends, coworkers, siblings, siblings’ friends. I’m incredibly pleased that the party didn’t split up into small cliques this time with groups gathered in different areas of the apartment. Everyone seemed to have something in common that they could chat with other people about. Mostly, it was just a competition for being the biggest nerd.

Around midnight or so, we got our first complaint that we were talking too loudly and there was thumping. With a dozen people sitting around chatting and music barely audible in the background, I was skeptical. But our living room is right next to our condo board president’s bedroom, so we moved everyone to the other end of the living room to try to alleviate matters.

Twenty minutes later, with our guests gathered in half our living room talking in hushed whispers, we got another call from the front desk saying there was still too much thumping and the police would be called if they needed to complain again. It seemed obvious by the fact that I could hear everything on the phone and she could hear me clearly that it couldn’t be that loud in my apartment. But that seemed irrelevant to the situation.

I think everyone thought it was amusing enough that they wanted to stick around and find out what happened. So, at least that didn’t ruin everyone’s fun. The last of the guests trailed out a little after 3, with no police officers to speak of. It was an incredibly entertaining night. If only there had been more thumping…