This day however, we couldn’t skip the perfect opportunity to throw a loop in Jacob’s rigid time schedule and give him a huge happy 32nd birthday surprise party. So much for rigid schedules, tonight you’ll just have to party North American style!

And when I say North American style, I don’t mean ‘yay I’ve been alive for 32 years, lets eat cake and hit the sack’ kind of celebration.

We’re talking trick candles, noisy bazookas, streamers, bags of candy, squirt guns, jumping frogs toys and fireball sucking contests (Maasai HATE spicy food). The competitive nature of the group seeped through our candy struck pores as we fought to suck on fireballs the longest, tears streaming down our burning faces.

The deal sealer of the night by far however was ‘pin the tail on the donkey’. Nothing like full bellies, blindfolds, spinning, dizzyness and lots of laughter to call it a happy birthday.

Jacob said and I quote “This birthday goes down in history, I’ll never forget it.”

Happy Birthday Jacob, it’s nice to meet you….and not to mention, surprise you once in awhile.