Cooking Mama at Jennifer’s

This afternoon we were invited to Jennifer’s 20th birthday party at her house (Jennifer is a girl from my Sunday School who studies Chemical Materials Engineering). We thought the party started at 4pm but when we arrived at her house, we didn’t see any other cars. After sitting in the car for a few minutes, we thought we might as well go in. When Jennifer answered the door, we found out that most people were actually arriving after 5, so we were a little early. We met a couple of Jennifer’s friends who were already there though – Sarah and Marco. They were still planning the group games that we were going to play later in the evening. Soon more people started arriving and we were trying our hardest to remember all their names. Nadine from church arrived as well, so we started talking to her since she was a familiar face. Jennifer took a photo of us with her Polaroid camera (Calum thought it was an underwater camera!) which was really cool. I hadn’t seen one of those cameras for ages!

I haven't seen a Polaroid Camera for ages!

Everyone prepared a different dish

When there was a sizable number of people, we started eating food from various dishes people had prepared. There was heaps of different food such as pasta, chicken nuggets, sausages with pineapples and tomatoes, sausage rolls, sushi, sweet desserts…

The evening was getting on and it was time to start the group activities. We were split into four teams and then told which game we would be playing first and with whom. Our group (The Cool Bunch) was up against Team 1 first, playing a game called Jukebox. We were played the beginning of different songs and we had to identify what song it was. It was the best out of ten songs and our group ended up winning! Other games during the evening included Jenga, a speed drinking game with coke and a straw, and a rubberband-passing game using straws in our mouths. I don’t actually know what the prize was for the winning team though; maybe there wasn’t one.

Our group playing "Jukebox"

Make a wish Jennifer!

We all sang Happy Birthday to Jennifer after the games, before group photos were taken. One of Jennifer’s friends got a little crazy with the cake cream, which soon escalated into a cream fight. Because I was standing in the corridor while this kerfuffle continued, I was caught in the crossfire. As Jennifer passed me she wiped a large lump of cream on my T-shirt, although I don’t think she realised. It was no biggie; I just used a tissue to clean myself up. We didn’t stay too long after that and we left at the same time Nadine did. It was a pretty fun night overall, really good to meet some new people and have fun celebrating Jennifer’s birthday!