It was my friend Lillian’s birthday! She had a sleepover party, and I was invited, along with James, Emily, Kaitlyn, and a different girl, but she didn’t turn up. I bought Lillian a present, a really cool cookiemaker, and she also got a beautiful doll, who wasn’t like those ones with the big cheesy grins and the strange hair that makes them look funny – it was really beautiful! I hope she liked my present for her. We immediately ran straight to the trampoline, and put up the tent we were to sleep in, while others designed the dinner tablecloth. On the trampoline, we bounced really super high and did challenges and Lillian showed us how to do front flips – I attempted to do one once, but simply rolled on the floor a bit with my hair over my face.
We had a delicious barbeque dinner after playing some awesome games. The first game we played was where you wrote some famous person on a sticker without letting anyone but you see it, and then sticking the sticker to someone’s forehead. That someone had to ask yes-or-no questions about their character – like ‘is it male or female?’ sort of thing – and try to guess the famous person. Most of them were Muppets, who aren’t really famous at all, but ah well, it was still fun!
After a chicken wrap and some ketchuppy stuff, we had some scrumptious birthday chocolate cake with vanilla icecream! Then we decided to have a midnight feast, so we got a load of sweets (me choosing about 8 minstrels wisely and sensibly) and put them into a little foil package. James, however, went a little far with the midnight feast idea, so he tipped a whole large packet of minstrels into his package and loads of haribo and sprinkles of red lace sugar! Then Fran, Lillian’s mum, hid the packages around the garden and we had to find them before we were able to pretty much sit and wait for midnight in the tent instead of falling asleep in the tent!
Have you heard of my strange obsession with clocks? Well, joy fell upon me when I saw the two ancient clocks in Lillian’s house! One was a huge, beautiful grandfather clock, old and ancient, with a moon and a sun on the top, and flowers and angels in the corners; and the time and the date, all in fancy writing; with a long, long case and a swinging golden pendulum. Here Lillian’s dad Dave came and gave me a lecture about the clock, and he wound it up with the special key! Then the other clock was even older; it was an emerald green mantel clock, and Dave and I tried to investigate how it worked, for it wouldn’t chime properly and that sort of thing. We looked at the cogs and the chains and the bells that showed if you turned it round. Both clocks were really quite beautiful!
Then, after a last energetic bounce on the trampoline, we got into our sleeping bags and zipped up what I called the ‘cubiculums’ after the awesome Latin word for bedroom. Poor James had to sleep in the tiny hall of the tent and he got soaked! None of us, but James, really got to sleep before midnight, for Lillian and I were whispering about ideas for stories and profiles for characters, and Kaitlyn and Emily were chatting about something-or-other, but James slept right through the midnight feast and we couldn’t wake him up! Then, unfortunately for me, I was woken up by Kaitlyn shouting and James firing insults at her like ‘shut your cake-hole’ and that sort of thing, at quarter past five in the morning! Let’s hope that doesn’t happen again next time ;D
In the morning, we had a tasty breakfast and we played on the trampoline and did hide-and-seek, etc. Hide-and-seek is a brilliant game when you’re at Lillian’s, because you’ve got so many little nooks and crannies!
Really excited to go there again!