Gift Experiences

I have a great experience that I would like to share.  It was totally awesome.  I took my 12 year old son to his friends birthday pool party.  They told us in advance what they were going to do and it was a surprise.  They were going to have the jacuzzi filled with red and green apples, oranges, lemons and spaghetti.

They asked for a 10 donation and to bring the gift in something waterproof so it won’t be ruined.  There are some that just gift wrapped it and brought it like that so it won’t get wet, which was ok.   When we arrived they had the jacuzzi half full of water.  The kids started swimming right away.

I gave my donation to his dad and an hour later he came back with the truck full of fruit and plenty of spaghetti.  I thought it was to much, but he made all of it fit in the jacuzzi.  He put the gifts inside the jacuzzi.  I bought him a hexbug which was perfect.  I put it in a waterproof egg and painted it red. 

The birthday kid was to busy swimming and having fun, he didn’t even realize what we were doing.  We had to cook the spaghetti so it won’t be hard.  We put all the gifts in the jacuzzi, I believe there were 13 gifts, camouflaged with the fruit and spaghetti.

When we were ready we called him over and explained what we did.  He got in there and it was just hilarious.  That spaghetti was just in his way and you can just see him getting frustrated with it.  He even shouted, “Who’s idea was it to put spaghetti in here.”  It took him a while to find all the presents, he even had his friend help him look for them.

It was absolutely awesome.  We enjoyed the whole party but that topped it.  Even after it was all over, the other kids wanted to do it, we would throw things in there and have them dig for them.  They loved it, I even thought about jumping in and seeing what it was like.  It was a great idea that I wanted to share with you.  Maybe this can give someone an idea for a birthday party.Clarissa