Transformer's Burlesque

Heather had a birthday party. Last year's theme was toga. It was a lot of fun! We ran around everywhere in our togas and looked super cool. This year's theme...Transformers/Burlesque?!?

How in the world are we suppose to manage that? *utterly confused*

Like this!

And this!!

As it turns out, the idea was to dress burlesque and have Transformers themed plates, cups, etc. It was a little more doable that way. *sigh of relief*

We had yummy cocktails (with a virgin option, of course), swimming rama and ice cream cake!

Oh, the cake.

I guess Heather had a vision in mind as to how she wanted her cake to appear. (Wait! Let me precede this part of the story by telling you how much she loves Optimus Prime. I mean, she LOVES him. *psycho!* Back to the cake...) So she picked out her ice cream cake, bought a Optimus Prime figurine and made sure that is hand was formed so that he could hold up one of her candles.

Everything was going fine until we started lighting the candles. What in the world possessed her to have 24 candles on the cake?!? There was wax everywhere, some of the candles were already half melted and then Optimus's candle started to wilt. *mass pandemonium* OH NO!! Quick, Heather! Blow out the candles NOW!!!

Poor Optimus. Not only did he have to survive the trial by fire, he then was molested by Heather. It must have been a sad, sad day in his life... *moment of silence*

Moving on. We played a trivia game in which the object was to find out who knew Heather the best. Since Heather has a long held tradition of crying every birthday, I was sure this was her ploy to provide an opportunity in which she could sob maniacally while screaming, "You don't even KNOW me!!" Alas, it was not the case. And I won. Duh.

Then the fun part. SCAVENGER HUNT!! *super excited!!*

We had to all sorts of crazy things. Find someone wearing polka dots and take a picture with them, have someone serenade us, find a couple on a date and have the guy give us his number while his girlfriend took a picture with us, find a dent on a car and put a bandaid on it, pump gas for someone, make Heather's initials with our bodies and more! (All within an hour.)

Can you picture us running around in our burlesque gear at 10pm on Capitol Hill? FUN TIMES!!

Happy Birthday, Heather!