Caza de tesoro
You’ll all be very proud to know that my borderline obsessive birthday party planning antics reached new heights yesterday. After my friends finally got home from Chiloé yesterday, Maddie and I managed to pull off a Valparaíso-wide treasure hunt for Sarah’s 21st birthday. Oh yes. We spent the afternoon penning witty clues (in perfect poetic meter…in Spanish), dotting the city with bright pink and green index cards stuck to benches and ledges and signs with mounting tape, making friends with a host of ice cream parlor workers and street vendors and ascensor operators who were really excited to hand off clues, and blowing up balloons with the entire staff of the Color Café. Sarah being our resident gymnast, a handstand photo was required at every stop. Not to mention a “shot” of manjar-filled chocolate.
When we finally got to Color Café, a festive table was waiting for us. The two folk singers sang “Féliz Cumpleanos” in harmony, accompanied by the rhythm of an acoustic guitar. The gruff chef with the eye patch and the fisherman’s cap handed Sarah a hand-painted glass ashtray as a birthday present. The quirky waitress, Angélica, who lives with a friend in the apartment right above the café, sat down and chatted with us for most of the night. And as we sipped our kiwi-apple, chirimolla-orange, and banana-lemon SuperJugos, we looked around at the walls covered with kites and keys and postcards and maps and crepe paper and puppets and necklaces and records and candy wrappers and tea bags and playing cards.
That just might be my favorite place in Valparaíso. And it just might have been my favorite night here.
2 Comments:
Go you!
That sounds like a lot of hard work...but you pulled it off!
I'm so glad you had fun! It really sounds like an interesting birthday party! LOL
Keep posting!!!
P.S. How did you make sure random people didn't steal the clues!? haha!
Haha well done. I adore your birthday celebrations. I want one like that =)
Miss you a whole lot && keep posting, my love <33
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