Birthdays and the kidnapping :)

This is the account of Marla’s Birthday and how her housemates (Becky, Joan, and I) kidnapped her. And now I...ha...get to tell you all about it.

6:45 pm - I walked into the kitchen and blindfolded Marla. Becky was videoing with my camera...Marla was washing dishes.

6:50 p.m - Becky and I guide Marla out the door, down the stairs and out to the gate. There we spin her around 26 times (we were only going to spin her 23 times, but then Becky thought that I should take video of it and so we spun her 3 more times)...

6:52 p.m - Becky and I take Marla outside the gate, walked down road behind our apartment and then turn around and walk out towards the road, then we started walking back to the school...we took her down to the office and up onto the grass and then to the gym (we told her that we were in someone's garage (sp?) and then we told her that we were climbing up to a tree house (which was actually the stairs leading to the 5th grade classrooms)...

7:00 p.m - We started walking toward Gene and Peter's apartment and Peter was playing on the drums, I was afraid that Marla would suddenly know where she was...so we rushed back the other way, telling Marla that someone might see us and know that we had climbed up their tree house. (she believed us too...she was scared) then we walked across the field and I was like "Look a Taxi! He can take us to our destination" Actually the "taxi" was Joan in her dad's car. So we got Marla into the car and then we were off...to drive around town. We tricked Marla into talking about Joan and the Sm's that she should date (Joan couldn't say anything...but she was laughing so hard, that Becky and I had to talk really loud so that Marla wouldn't know)

7:15 p.m - We had Joan dropped us off on the side of the road and then we walked down the gravel drive to the gate. That was when we headed for Mr. B's apartment, I sent Becky ahead to see if they were ready yet...they weren't so I walked Marla down to Miss Groff's classroom...there I talked to her and asked her where she thought that she was...and she was scared by a dog and then Becky snuck up and scared her, Marla screamed so loud and Becky and I talked about all the different things that we "saw" On our next trip around I sent Becky again to see if they were ready...I had to leave Marla on the sidewalk next to the boys apartments several times to shush some girls and to tell other people to be quiet when they walked by.

7:30 p.m - So finally it was time to walk back to Mr. B's apartment, we climbed the stairs and got Marla through the door...then we took off the blind fold and everyone yelled out "Surprise!" and "Happy Birthday!" it was really funny, she had no idea that we have kept her on campus the entire time. So we got to eat really good food and have a nice evening. :)