First, I woke up to a text message on my phone saying to look up my name on youtube.com and I would find many video's dedicated to me from some of my closest friends in the states! You can do the same if you'd like to... Just go to youtube.com and in the search engine put, elyse purtilar. So after I had tears in my eyes from just hearing Jackie Hart say "I wish I was with you, I love you, I miss you, MUAH!!!!" : ) It made me smile throughout the whole day! So after that I got some nice cards and birthday wishes throughout the day I had a delivery from the florist from my family and they are beautiful lilies, which are my favorites!!!!! And my family didn't even know!
Yesterday we had to go throughout Downpatrick and tour where we're going to help out the next team since it all new to us! So as we were touring, I was naive enough to not notice that my two best friends here were not with us and "cleaning" the Oasis! So we toured and then we all got back and just finished up the work we had needed to finish up and then Richie took me out for coffee at this new and amazing coffee place called KREM!!!!! It was so, so good! And we saw Ben Haas there, who was also in on it?! Like seriously, everyone but me knew... I'm pretty sure there are people who I don't even know that knew about it... UGH, whatever, anyways! After that Richie "needed" to get stuff for the tuck shop up at crosspoint. So we went to get that and then he got a call from "John" saying that the alarm was going off at Oasis and we had to go check it out! So we went, and while I was at the store I got a 2 liter of water because I was so thirsty and I thought that it would be a really good weapon after the fact... So we get to Oasis and we walk in and go through the kitchen and I see that Cynthia's purse is sitting on the table and I said to Richie as I walk into the coffee bar (which for some reason Richie was practically jogging to get into the coffee bar), "Hmm... why is Cynthia's purse on the table?" As I walk into the coffee bar I hear people screaming "SURPRISE!!!!!" and balloons everywhere! So there is my family from Northern Ireland all standing around a table with more lilies on them and candles! It was so overwhelming that I started shaking and almost started crying that I turned around and started to walk out! One cause I almost crapped my pants, yes, my pants, and two because I was so pissed that it was kept as such a good secret!!!! UGHH!!! So as I'm about to walk out shaken... oh and might I add that all my pictures I have glasses on because I had pink eye! Happy Birthday to me... anyway, Richie pulled me back in and I just stood at the same spot with my mouth open and almost took the huge 2 liter or water and hit every single one of them! It really was the best birthday I have ever had, and it will never be topped again! So after I calmed down, a wee bit, I realized that Kayla (one of my best friends) made me homemade manicotti for my dinner and Cynthia made me a 7-layer bean dip which are both my favorites and so good, her dip even had guacamole in it!!!!!! MY FAVE!!!! So, Richie prayed for the dinner, and I cried cause it was really sweet! I know, Richie... sweet?!? I don't know how it worked either but it did! : ) So I opened up my card and present and we ate with an Irish landscape in the background and then we watched football on the big screen and just hung out! Then we went back to Murlough, cleaned everything up and then Richie, Ewelina, Kayla, and I went to hang out for a bit, then I came home to read all of my messages on the computer, talked to my parents and went to bed! And that is the story about the day I turned 19! It was soooooo great! It was the best birthday I have ever had in my life! I'm pretty sure nothing will ever top it!!!! EVER!!!!
Thanks so everyone who helped and especially to Ewelina and Kayla for putting it all together, and Richie for being the biggest CHEEKY MONKEY!!! : )
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