I turn 40 years old on Thursday, but Saturday night my wife and friends threw me a surprise party.
I was sitting at church watching the video announcements at the end of the service, and I heard the familiar Star Wars fanfare. Then, scrolling up the screen was a blurb about me having a birthday and everyone was invited to a surprise party in the cafe!
When I went in there, there was the cake, drinks, and a 6 1/2 foot cardboard cutout of Darth Vader holding a Happy 40th Birthday balloon! The cake looked like the Alec Guinness Obi-wan was waving his hand and it said "You WILL have a good year!"
On top of that, I was given a brown jedi robe that I had to wear the rest of the evening. I felt like an idiot, but it was cool. I wanted that for last halloween.
There was a 55" tv showing video of me playing bass at various events along with a music video (with a couple of shots of me with my beyass) from the early 90s (that I haven't seen in prolly 15 years), and plenty of pictures of playing at shows and just being a idiot in general.
And the gifts... heh... I got a Darth Vader coffee mug (ya know, the one that's shaped like his noggin - which I accidentally dropped and shattered into a thousand pieces before I could make it in the door of my house). And apparently, my wife had to search several cities to find one, but got the giant Hasbro Millennium Falcon! It's freakin' huge. I could put legs on it and it would make a cool coffee table.
Besides cash, cards, and gift cards (there was a R2D2 "bin" where you could write messages to me and drop in there), the drummer in our band got me the Snakes & Arrows live concert on DVD - which has been awesome so far, even though they look like they haven't aged well.
Anyway, I thought my wife just tolerated my Star Wars affections, but she outdid anything she has ever done before. Truly an awesome evening.
So to justify this thread as a non-blog, post about your own surprise parties.
I was sitting at church watching the video announcements at the end of the service, and I heard the familiar Star Wars fanfare. Then, scrolling up the screen was a blurb about me having a birthday and everyone was invited to a surprise party in the cafe!
When I went in there, there was the cake, drinks, and a 6 1/2 foot cardboard cutout of Darth Vader holding a Happy 40th Birthday balloon! The cake looked like the Alec Guinness Obi-wan was waving his hand and it said "You WILL have a good year!"
On top of that, I was given a brown jedi robe that I had to wear the rest of the evening. I felt like an idiot, but it was cool. I wanted that for last halloween.
There was a 55" tv showing video of me playing bass at various events along with a music video (with a couple of shots of me with my beyass) from the early 90s (that I haven't seen in prolly 15 years), and plenty of pictures of playing at shows and just being a idiot in general.
And the gifts... heh... I got a Darth Vader coffee mug (ya know, the one that's shaped like his noggin - which I accidentally dropped and shattered into a thousand pieces before I could make it in the door of my house). And apparently, my wife had to search several cities to find one, but got the giant Hasbro Millennium Falcon! It's freakin' huge. I could put legs on it and it would make a cool coffee table.
Besides cash, cards, and gift cards (there was a R2D2 "bin" where you could write messages to me and drop in there), the drummer in our band got me the Snakes & Arrows live concert on DVD - which has been awesome so far, even though they look like they haven't aged well.
Anyway, I thought my wife just tolerated my Star Wars affections, but she outdid anything she has ever done before. Truly an awesome evening.
So to justify this thread as a non-blog, post about your own surprise parties.
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