“Party in the USA”

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Tonight Stephanie Gates had her 19th birthday party at her house. As you can probably guess, the theme for the party was ‘Party in the USA’. After feeling a bit overdressed last year at the Sizers’ Christmas gathering, I didn’t know how extreme to dress up for tonight’s party. In the end I just went in some casual clothes, nothing too out-there. Though I did have blue shoes, a blue hoodie and some blue on my T-shirt so as to keep with the American colours (or should I say colors). I arrived at Steph’s house not too long before 9pm and made my way round the back of the house. From the looks of things, the American atmosphere was definitely buzzing with all these American flags and balloons hung around the place, along with those cool red plastic cups you see in all those teen American movies! I actually later found out that there’s a company that makes those red cups called the Solo Cup Company and the ones we had at the party were the real deal!

Having a good time chatting on the deck

"Yea-eaa-ea-eaah! It's a party in the USA"

There was already a decent-sized group of people at the party when I arrived. I said my hellos and wished Stephanie happy birthday before I blended into the scene. Some people were dressed to the American theme a lot more than others, notably Luke who didn’t actually have a shirt on at first (and I didn’t even get a photo!). Hand-painted T-shirts was a recurring style in many outfits too. From feeling overdressed last time, I started to feel a bit underdressed this time! But it didn’t faze me for long once I started chatting and mingling with some of the peeps.

It turned out to be a really good night of catching up with old friends and finding out what everyone was up to these days. I had a nice long chat with Cresilda as we reminisced about the old days way back as far as primary school! There turned out to be heaps of people at the party that I didn’t know (or at least I didn’t think I knew them from vaguely seeing them in the dark). In fear of missing someone out, I won’t attempt to recall everyone I caught up with, but to everyone I talked to – thanks for the catch-up! We should do it more often.

See more photos from the party in the photo album.

From left: Shaun, Stephanie, me, Hannah, Rosie

P.S. Happy birthday to my other friends, Claire and Rebecca from church! I hope you both had a great day and got a chance to relax and enjoy yourself on your special day