My Not So Great Birthday Party

By Pauline

            A couple weeks before my 5^th birthday (I think), I told my mom that I wanted to have a scavenger hunt for my party. She thought it was a good idea, and she got my older brother to help her with it. I woke up really excited the morning of my party. When I got to the living room, my mom told me that she had set up some kind of hunt in the backyard, and that I shouldn’t look for any ribbons. I didn’t really know what the game was, but my mom wanted help making the teams. Of course I put my crush on my team and a kid I didn’t like too much on another.

            When everyone got there, my mom started explaining the game. There were three teams, and each team had a different assigned color. Ten ribbons with each color on them were hidden in the yard. The yard was pretty big with a swing set, sand pit, little crappy house, and a garden in the back. There were some bushes and trees along the perimeter of the yard.  Each team had to find all of them and then go back inside the house to give them to my mom. She would count them and make sure we had all ten. If we didn’t we would go back and look for the rest. If we did she gave us a paper puzzle of an object. Once we figured out what the object was, we had to go find it and look for a key in it. Once we had the key you could unlock a cabinet with treasure in it.

            She started telling us who was on what team. There was a blue, a green, and a red team. My best friend and my crush were on the red team with me. The kid I did not really like, Cirdec, was on the green team. My best guy friend, Arthur was on the blue team.

We all got ready to go outside and my mom yelled “go.” My team decided to split up a little and we started looking around the yard. We had a little trouble keeping track of how many ribbons we had. We thought we had all of them so we went back inside, very excited to be first. But when my mom counted then we only had eight of them. She sent us back outside to look for the rest of our ribbons. We spread out one last time and found the rest of the ribbons really easily.

When we finally had all of our ribbons, we went back inside to get our puzzle. Everyone was already working on their puzzles, so our team was a little stressed out. Cirdec’s team seemed to be in the lead so I was a little agry. But we finished first. It was a picture of a little plastic house. I knew where it was, so I told my team to follow me. I led them back outside to the front of the yard. There was a little plastic house for tiny kids. We couldn’t all fit inside so three of us went in (there was no roof). All the other teams had followed us, with my mom in front of them. I saw there was a blanket on the ground, so I picked it up and underneath it was the key. My team was so excited, but I think I was more excited than any of them.

We followed my mom back inside. She told me which cabinet the key opened. I was having a little trouble unlocking the cabinet. When all of the sudden, the kid I hate the most comes up next to me, opens the cabinet next to the locked one, reaches inside (all the cabinets are connected in the inside), and gabs a box of candy. The kid ruined my birthday party!  Everyone was cheering for him. I was supposed to get the candy out. It was my team who won! He had no right to open that thing! I will never ever forgive that kid!