Feliz Cumple!

So, we have gotten to know each other in our program fairly well! Well we recently learned that our friend Julie's birthday was yesterday. Naturally, being the fun-loving caring people that we are, we decided to host her a birthday party at our apartamento! I was in charge of dinner because apparently all of my other companeras are hopeless at cooking. Of course, I decided to cook the ever so elegant and difficult spaghetti! Well Mis companeras decided to go the ATM and I showered while they were gone. Then I uploaded more pics, then fiddled around the kitchen, obsessively checked facebook, chopped a clove and half of garlic, prepared the cookware, obsessively checked twitter. Then I started to think, damn they've been gone awhile!

Well they finally came back and I started dinner! Our downstairs neighbors decided to join us for our meal and we had some wine while we waited on the birthday girl. Well apparently wine and this group of people equals an insane amount of sarcasm and just flat out goofery (yes, goofery.) We honestly could not stop laughing. Then dinner was ready and we were starving and no sign of birthday girl. She was an HOUR late to her own party! Of course scenarios are running through our heads that she died, got taken, decided not to come, or any other worst case scenario. We are joking and laughing to try and forget about our hunger, but it was too much! WE HAD TO DIG IN! So like animals we plow through some spaghetti, sip our wine/wine and choc. milk/malibu and pepsi.

 We are all almost finished with our meal when we hear, "KARI!!!!!!!" We look out our balcony and there is birthday girl!! Someone goes to get her and as soon as she sits down we ask her if she wants any spaghetti. She says that she's not hungry, which makes all of us laugh our asses off because we had been struggling to abstain from eating, then we went through a guilt-ridden meal only to be shot down. Keep in mind, we aren't drunk yet. Well, we put away all of our plates and then comes the ultimate surprise! A BIRTHDAY WATERMELON!!! We literally bought a half of a watermelon at a fruteria and stuck candles in it! We lit the candles in the birthday song begins like this,

"Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday dear............... (long pause)........ JULIE!"

At that point we all lose it! WE FORGOT THE BIRTHDAY GIRLS NAME!!!!!!!! Sabah is clutching the table because she's laughing so hard she's about to fall out of her chair. Kari is literally on the floor trying not to pee her pants laughing. Nadya is still clutching her chocolate milk and turning red from laughter. Ally's head is on the table trying to maintain some composure. I couldn't tell what Penny was doing because I was laughing so hard I literally was only intaking air and not exhaling, basically asphyxiating myself with laughter. Julie is looking at us like "You dumb bitches invite me to a birthday party, forget my name in the middle of the birthday song, and then laugh about it?" Which of course makes Julie laugh with us. Needless to say, once we finished her song with her name actually in it, we dug in spoon first into the watermelon.

The rest of the night followed our lighthearted dinner in the same fashion only at different bars with different tapas, we of course had too much to drink, but hey we're in Spain!

I honestly don't think I'll forget this night because I haven't laughed that hard in years!


New nicknames after last night:
Nadya=Choco Vino because she was literally double fisting wine and choco milk and vino, calling it delicious
Sabah=  Simba or Mufasa or Simba Mufasa