My friend Marissa Murphy celebrated her 27th birthday this August. In order to celebrate we (JulieAnne, Erin, Megan and I) decided to surprise her with a party. Ok the party itself wasn't a surprise as much as what we were going to do at the party. Marissa's favorite thing is food. She is kinda a "foodie". And she loves dessert. Because of this we decided to take her on a dessert crawl around Anchorage. All that she knew was that we were picking her up at 6:00 and that she was eating. Before her party I had to manipulate information out of her.
Me: If someone was going to get your family fast food for dinner tonight, what kind of food would they get them?
Marissa: Why? Your getting me fast food?
Me: I didn't say that. I said IF someone was going to what would it be?
Marissa: I thought that we were eating dinner tonight.
Me: I didn't say that I was taking you out to dinner tonight. I just said that you would be eating.
Marissa: Oh ok then Pizza Man.
See how sneaky I can be about getting information from someone.
My friends JulieAnne, Erin, and I went to pick Marissa up pizza in hand. She grabbed a couple pieces of pizza and asked if she should be a pig and take another one.
NO!!! her husband and I yelled at the same time.
Then we took off to our first destination. We had a very specific time that we had to be there by because others were going to meet us there. We had to be there by 6:30 which we would of been if we could of found parking. Our first stop on the dessert crawl was The Alaska Cake Company. I got a key lime tart thing and Marissa got a Bacon Cheesecake tart. They were both really good. After we ordered the rest of our group (who also couldn't find parking) joined us. Our group now consisted of Megan Johnson, Ruth Sena, Dene' Quimby and Brooke Cook. We all chatted and enjoyed our first treat. When it was time to go we told Marissa about our little catch. We could not continue onto our next destination until she completed 2 things on our scavenger hunt list.
The first was get something out of a strangers pocket. No I don't mean steal I mean ask them for an item from their pocket. That was too easy. She jumped out in front of someone on a bicycle and yelled "STOP, STOP, THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT!" and the poor sap did stop.
Marissa:"I need something from your pocket"
Poor Sap feels pocket: I don't have anything in there
Marissa "Nothing at all?"
Poor Sap "Just my chapstick"
Marissa "That works."
Then the nice homeless guy gave her his chapstick and took off on his bike.
Marissa throws her hands in the air and yells "I GOT HERPIES"
The next item on the scavenger hunt was to get a group of at least 4 people to do the "superstar" pose. We took off wandering the streets of down town Anchorage. Passed several people and came upon a group of tourists.
Marissa:"Hey can I get you to do something for me?"
Group of innocent tourists: "No" starts walking away. One kind on stops "I'm sorry we don't speak English."
We take off on the streets again where we come across a group of young'ens.
Marissa: "YOUNG PEOPLE, YOUNG PEOPLE, STOP THIS. IS. IMPORTANT!"
Once again I am surprise but they stop. Why I am surprised young people are pretty stupid. Sorry young people out there but really you are.
Marissa: "Can you guys do the Superstar pose with me? You do know the superstar pose right?"
upon completion of the sentence all 20 "Young people" in unison break into the superstar pose. It was great! Marissa then thanked them profusely and gave high fives (which is amazing anyway because she doesn't do high fives). Laughing and joking around with the "Young People" as they leave. One even came up to her and asked her for her phone number. To which she replies "NO" and walked away. Hey I guess she still has it even 7 months pregnant.
After she got her 2 items on the list passed off we went to Modern Dwellers Chocolate Lounge. Marissa and I both got a iced hot chocolate for our dessert there. As her challenge on her scavenger hunt she needed to talk someone into miming that they were stuck in a glass box with her. That was an easy one. There was a group of about 7 biker people and Marissa just plopped herself right down in the middle of them and just started chatting like she had known them forever. Some how she convinced this guy whose name is Red to pose with her. He had the biggest knife attached to his leg. Marissa kept making sure that he wasn't going to stab her with it. Before we left he asked her if he could take her away with him. We asked him if he was ready to take care of her unborn child? He was completely willing to take on that responsibility. We also told him that her party day just happened to land on National skinny dipping day and that was how we were going to end our evening. Red wanted to go with us. He tried to give us his number so that we could call him so that he could meet up with us. Then he yelled out the door as we were leaving "I am a certified lifeguard." If we actually did go skinny dipping and we actually called him to go with us he would have to swim with his big ol' knife just in case one of us got attacked by a bear. I think he could take him.
Our last stop on our dessert crawl was The Sugar Spoon. Which just happens to be my favorite dessert place in the area. We ended up hanging out there for several hours. We all just gossipped and had a swell evening hanging with the girls. Marissa said that she thought that our evening was epic and I am inclined to agree. It was so much fun and can't wait to do something like this again! It goes down as one of the best girls nights that I have had! Happy Birthday Risky Sue!
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