Beatha, Gáire, Grá: Fiesta de Suprisa para Peggy

Saturday night we threw a surprise birthday party for Peggy!

After a lot of location changes the party was held at la casa de Anne y Carrie's. Most of the volunteers came over early to decorate signs and blow up balloons to put around the house.

I was a little nervous, well actually a lot nervous about how the party would go. The day started off with no electricity and when it still wasn't on by 6p.m. I freaked out a little bit. But then I remembered to take a breath and just go with it. Peggy loves Honduras so I figured a black out birthday party would be pretty memorable. So I stocked up on some candles and made a few phone calls to let everyone know the show would go on -- lights or not!

But...

thank goodness the electricity came back on at 7p.m. and we had a solid hour to finish decorating before Peg arrived...

To get Peggy to the house Carlos told her that they had to go to dinner with the new volunteer group in town, but they needed to make a stop at Anne and Carrie's first. He explained that they hadn't had electricity all day and he needed to check their washing machine (which has not been working for a few weeks).We had all of the lights out and just a few candles lit when they got there, so everything seemed legit to Peg. When Anne let her in she seemed very confused at first...

Then quickly realized we were all there and throwing a birthday party for her. She was shocked...

As soon as we came in we sung a round of Happy Birthday, accompanied by Dan on guitar...

Here's Carlos (one of my partners in crime) and Peggy...

The party planners...

Me and Maks

After everyone ate the dancing started...

Andrew decided we should dance polka instead of whatever Honduran dance everyone else was doing. I had a blast...

Then the boys started dancing like Russians...

After a few hours most of the volunteers were sitting on the couches (including myself) so I decided we needed to spice things up with a few American songs. We started with the "YMCA" in honor of Carlos's shirt and then moved on to "Shout" -- always a crowd pleaser...