23 on the 23rd Bonus Track

One of my superb friends rightly pointed out that I never updated what my friends were planning when I was banned from the room. I felt it only right in honour of my team here that I informed the wide world, through web-means, of what effort they went to.

I was taken back to the eating arena aka the kitchen and dining room, and they took me into our private team room and they had laid out a whole party table of hats and party bags and serviettes (how DO you spell that word??) and a present for me. And by my seat was a card from my parents which was awesome. Then they brought in a cake that they'd made. It was immense. They'd felt that two layers looked too small so they made four layers!

It turned out that they'd been planning it all since before we left England! All through that week they'd been creeping about buying food here and there and lying to me outright. It was comedy. For someone supposedly very perceptive I had failed to notice, amongst other things:

- the fact that they had left for shopping without me despite me wanting to go
- Jonno had faked a deep and meaningful conversation in order to stop me walking into the room in which they were making my cake
- walked blatant food stuffs for cake making past me without me even noticing
- the fact that everyone on site knew it was my birthday yet I'd told very few

There was also another comic event when I was looking through someone's camera photos and on it was some photos of the cake they'd made, I was two photos away from it when Hannah realised so told me to stop, and then Izzy made up some excuse that there were photos of her doing a cartwheel (which to be fair there were) but that she was embarrassed so didn't want me to see them. So I passed the camera back. Little did I know that at that point their pulses were through the roof!

I would also like to praise Jonno for his genius deception with the insitgation of a deep and meaningful chat about something he was finding hard, just when I told him I was about to go for a walk to a place the guys were cooking in. I was sold like a kipper and I sat there and shared some deep advice from my soul haha. Jonno claims he needed that chat anyway at some point, but he just seized the moment and brought it forward!

So yeh, that's what happened on my birthday!