I'm not big on birthday parties and have probably only had two or three of my own over my (almost) 13 years, but yesterday my friend B invited me to her party and it was SO FUN!

Friday night, me and her other friend, A, slept over. As small as I am on birthday parties, I like sleepovers even less. I need sleep, and a sleepover isn't the place to get it. But I got a full 8.5 hours of sleep. We didn't get up till 11-11:30. I was still tired, but oh well.

Her party started the next day in early afternoon. Besides me, her and A, there were 4 people. First, we were divided into two teams. Pink and Orange, I was pink. Then we each got a blank canvas apron to decorate with markers. Oh, and person got a bandana, orange team got orange ones pink got pink ones. Each team was assigned a driver, a folder, 20$,  pen and a calculater.

Now, I bet you are wondering what we did, but that'll come in a minute.

In our folder was 6 recipies. We had to decide on 1 appitizer, one main dish and one dessert. We had to make a shopping list of all the ingredients we needed, then get our driver to take us to the store where we had to buy it. And it had to be under 20$. If it was $20.01, we had to cut something out to make it under the 20$ mark. We bought everything we needed, with 37 cents to spare. Then we drove home a started cooking. It was kind of fun to be on a strict budget. We had to really look at the different brand name prices, and ended up having to buy margerine instead of butter because marg. was 75 cents cheaper and the butter put us over our budget.

It was an Iron chef contest. AWESOME!

I pretty much was in charge of the appitizer. Savory 3 cheese dip, served with nacho's and red peppers.

B and K took over the main course, pasta with a garlic and herb sauce. 'A' did the desert. Pinwheel cookies with chocolate dipping sauce. Each plate had three cookies, which were placed to look like eyes and nose, then the dipping sause was drizzled into a smile and eyebrows. (We got a perfect score for desert creativity!) The desert smiley was my idea!

There were three judges. They judged each dish out of 5, according to creativity, presentation and taste. 

Oh, and there was one more rule. Everything had to contain some sort of cheese. It could be cream cheese,  cheddar, parmesan, as long as it was cheese.

My team won by 5 points!

Then we had pizza and cupcakes. And we got chocolate bars.

Cairo