Two weeks prior to visiting Oliver, I engaged several of Oliver’s close friends in Kaiserslautern to plan a surprise birthday party on 8th May, a Saturday. It was quite tricky in the first place because Oliver was also planning a birthday party himself. He was planning to have a grill party on Saturday. So, I came up with a master plan. I told Oliver since I’ve missed his birthday for the past few years; I suggested that we spent the day to ourselves by going for a day trip to Stuttgart and we could celebrate his birthday the day after, on Sunday after church. He was initially reluctant because he told a few of his friends but I told him that he could inform his friends to come the day after. So he agreed. Good boy. So that being settled, I communicated with Nicholas, Chelsea and Sonja on Oliver’s surprise birthday party and we came up with these; Black & White Theme, venue at Drew & Chelsea’s residence, some cooked dishes by Nicholas and tapas by Chelsea & Sonja, guest lists (this was tough, but thank God for Nicholas) and all I had to do was distract Oliver. The plan was Oliver and I will make a day trip to Stuttgart, Chelsea to ask Drew to sms Oliver and invite us for a dinner at their place at 7-ish pm, so we’ll head to their place straight after Stuttgart.
When the day came, we went to Stuttgart and met up with Evangeline and Sebastian.
So far so good. Oliver still did not have any clue at all. He was constantly on his phone though trying to arrange with some friends for the grill party on Sunday. I felt bad but hey, it’s all part of the grand plan. After spending what I considered a brief time in Stuttgart, we took the train back and reach Kaiserslautern at 7.30pm. We walked to Drew and Chelsea’s place which was just minutes away from the train station. When we arrived at their place, I noticed the drive way was clear, very clever of them because Oliver might have guessed if he had seen lots of cars on the driveway. We walked up a flight of stairs and when we opened the door, everyone went “SURPRISE!!!” and OLIVER WAS SURPRISED!
So, the grand plan works and everyone wished Oliver, we catch up over wonderful food and drinks prepared by Oliver's wonderful friends.
Birthday cake made by Kelly was amazingly delicious.
Friends of Oli's who came and followed the Black & White Theme except for few. :)
We took group pictures.
Oliver received a coffee machine that he’d been wanting to get.
And yes, he was a very happy birthday boy.
We did have the grill party the next day.
:)
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