Several weeks ago I mentioned that I was planning a belated birthday party for myself. Which we FINALLY threw this Saturday. And we pretty much had a blast. It was a ‘scavenger hunt’ themed party. Here are some photos and some deets from the date (I am uploading them to here even before I figure out which ones I’m going to put on Facebook, that’s how important you guys are to me.)

We started in the apartment with a Loren themed word scramble. The final answer lead them to the next clue.

A sign that the local coffee shop let me hang in their window (I double checked with all the local shops we used while planning.) This clue took them to the book store down the street where they had to look up each word in the next clue from a book (some of them were in French.)

I bought some tiny dark chocolates from Just Creations took them home, and stuck a little clue inside that lead them back to Ian’s Treat Jar.

Where we hid little rolled up maps (tied with glittery string). That were ‘written by Ian’. So they included loads of little things like ‘Stop here to smell a tree’ and ‘Turn left at the yellow ‘Yeld’ sign which memorializes where someone once yeld at a good dog for no reason. Never forget’. Kent and I anthropomorphize our pets a ridiculous amount. So it was only fair that he was included in the scavenger hunt.

Ian’s Map lead them to my mother’s house. Where I hid a clue in her front yard. Jars with pictographs in them. I ‘glittered’ the lids of the recycled jars and tied little ribbons to them to make sure they were easy to find. The pictograph lead everyone to the final location. A local bar where there was ice cream cake (and beer) waiting for everyone. We had a pretty great time. After the bar we met up with a couple other friends and then headed out for karaoke, because we all love karaoke.