Surprise Birthday Party

On Saturday afternoon at four, we’re having a surprise birthday party for our daughter Rachel. She’ll turn thirteen. Her cousins Charles and Barbara will arrive early to help prepare. We’ll take pictures, play cards and some board games. We’ve ordered a birthday cake and her favorite dessert, strawberry ice cream. We’ve invited about thirty of her friends and told them to come over before four. We hope all her friends get here by four before Rachel returns from the park. When they’re all here, we’ll call Mark to bring her over. When they open the front door the lights will be turned off. Her thirty friends will be waiting nervously in the other room. We hope it works out and that Rachel will be really surprised.