Happy Birthday Sara and Abby! You beautiful, crazy bitches!
All the hens
For their birthdays, we got Sara & Abby a cell phone because they were the only ones who didn't have one and we could never get a hold of them
Mhairi and I won the contest for best Sara and Abby look-alike. (Mhairi is Sara and I'm Abby)
Sara and Abby with their clones.
Imy made some wicked punch for the party. It was some weird combination of sherbet, soda and juice, but it was goooood.
Helen isn't having any of the punch
but I am
Our friend Mike & Abby
Mhairi and Katie doing some kind of strange interpretive floor dance
Mohamed, Ahmed and Yussef. The couch crew
Abby Brite
Helen & Sara. For the record, Sara always makes these contortionist faces.
Heeeeeeere's to sister Sarah...I was teaching the girls some of my old high school carousing songs
Imy and her boyfriend, Pet Shot Boy. This is foreplay I guess
Vladimir, (a couch surfer who was staying with Sara & Abby for the week), Primo, and some random guy in a green shirt.
Katie eating M&M's off the tiniest little Alice in Wonderland spoon. We have the strangest stuff in our apartments here.
Mhairi checking out her Sara-sized boobs.
Lookin' good, sug
Lacie & Mohammed
The Katies. Katie W. is usually in bed by 9:00, so this party was killing her
Abby does the best model faces. I was trying to capture one myself and failed miserably
I'm not sure why Mike is holding this beer, cause he doesn't drink
Me and my Katie
Loveys
Mohammed trying on a witch hat, but you can't see it all. He's still adorable
Sarah and I bustin' a move (to Spanish music, what else?) We both showed up wearing the same shirt again that night, only in different colors.
Primo trying to help Joelle with her Arabic
What's up, Katie?
Mohamed, our boss. He loves to hang with his flock of foreign chicks
Sarah looking innocent after she tackled Katie for no reason
Another Sara-esque facial expression
The Sara(h)s. We rock
Sarah and Primo. A new couple emerges
I'm not sure what's going on in this picture
Again, I'm trying to capture an Abby-inspired model look. I don't think Tyra will be calling me anytime soon.
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Abby and Sara H.'s birthdays both fell within 2 days of each other the first week of November. Since Halloween was just a few days before, we decided to have a combination party to celebrate both events. Because it was a Halloween party, Abby came dressed as Rainbow Brite and Sara came as Batgirl. What they didn't know however, is that we had all secretly planned ahead of time to come dressed as them. As I said in an earlier entry, Abby and Sara have a really unique sense of style. They love to wear stripes and polka dots and they also wear things that don't match and layer skirts and tops all of the time. We thought it would be fun to dress up as them for their birthday/Halloween party, so we got out our funkiest outfits and threw them together for that night.
The party was at Sarah & Imy's place, and was scheduled to begin at 7:00. We all planned to get there around 6:30 so that we could get things ready and surprise Sara and Abby with our costumes when they arrived. However, my Katie ended up taking a nap after work that day, and I couldn't wake her up until almost quarter to 7 that night. When I finally woke her up, she hurriedly got changed, and then we rushed over to Sarah & I'my's. Right as we walked up to the entrance of their apartment, we saw Sara & Abby coming down the street from the opposite direction. We didn't want them to see us dressed in our Sara & Abby costumes because it would ruin the surprise, but it was too late, they had already noticed us. "Hey, guys, wait up," Abby called from half a block away. We debated ignoring her and running up the stairs, but by the time we made a decision, they had already reached us. "Hey girls, I love your costumes!" I told them. "Yeah," Sara answered, "and what the hell are you supposed to be?" Katie and I remained silent and just stared at them with smiles on our faces. Abby looked us up and down and finally said, "Oh, my God! Are you supposed to be us?" "Yes," I said, "but it was supposed to be a surpise. All the girls are dressed as you tonight." They thought this was hilarious and burst out laughing.
The party was a blast. Many of our Egyptian friends came, and we ordered pizzas, had cake and punch, and ate and drank until we felt like we were going to burst. We had a wonderful time that night playing cards and games, listening to music, and dancing. Lacie's husband Mohammed came with his cousin, who is named Mhaadi, but we call him Primo, (cousin), instead. At one point during the night, Primo was talking to a group of us girls and he said, "So, these costumes that you are all wearing; I don't understand them. What are you supposed to be?" Sarah B. told him that we were dressed up like bumkins because that is what Sara and Abby dress like. "I am confused," he told her. "Why do you think your friends dress like bumkins?" We went on to explain to him that Sara and Abby love to wear clothes that don't match and sometimes they look like bums from the street who just put on whatever they find lying around. "Ok, yes. I know what you mean. But I still don't understand. Why do you think your friends are bumkins?" We tried explaining it to him again, but he still didn't seem to understand what we were talking about, and he was starting to get frustrated. Finally he pointed to a pumpkin that was sitting on one of the tables and said, "THIS is a bumkin, why do you think your friends are bumkins??" After he said that, we all started laughing. We finally understood why he was confused. In Egypt, people don't pronounce P's with the 'puh' sound, they use the 'buh' shound instead. For example, they call Pepsi, "Bebsi." So Primo thought that we were trying to dress up like actual pumpkins, and he did not understand what stripes, polka dots, and Sara & Abby had to do with pumpkins. Ever since that evening, Abby and Sara have been affectionately dubbed the "Bumkins."
