Success

Pranks properly carried out result in resounding success (and laughs).

The morning of the 18th dawned with extreme normality. So I will not venture to explain the morning further. I fear I would bore you before I even begin.

The afternoon of the 18th was a bit out of the ordinary as my sister and I went to B-- to pick up a friend in order to have a girls afternoon/evening/night out. We had a rough draft of our plans mapped out in our heads and we were soon off to the mall. Our main purpose for going on a Monday afternoon was that there wouldn't be anyone else around. This was very true. We were pretty much the only ones about the place.

Frivolous "shopping" came first and we tried on some fun prom-type dresses and laughed at how girls wore them with all seriousness (how they pull straight faces while wearing the things I'll never know). Then went about our serious shopping and in that was the first success of the day. We all found something we liked! At the same store! I got a dress and some suspenders. EP got a lovely skirt for an even lovelier price. SG got a sweet black jacket and red shoe laces for her Chucks.

On our way out of Penney's we walked by the mall theater. Seeing a movie we thought we might like to see, we looked at times. The next showing was in half an hour. We then discussed whether or not to call JW and get him to buy us spray paint. I finally just said that we should just go find out for sure whether there was an age limit on buying the stuff. We went and I went in alone (we thought it would look a little less suspicious if just one giggling girl went in as opposed to three). There is no age limit on who can buy spray paint (I hope you're all taking notes).

We then buzzed back to the theater, got our tickets, and watched the movie. Not much to report in that department, except right when the credits started rolling I got a phone call. I thought that was a perfect example of good timing.

**Time passed**

**I got very hungry**

**SG and EP decided they wanted to eat at Subway**

When we finished eating it was still growing dark. Not dark enough to pull this prank. We went to the library to change into all our dark clothes. By the time we got back across town it was dark enough.

As you well know, we couldn't just drive up and park at the A's house without their notice. So we parked at their neighbor's house. EP and I went up and knocked asking if we could park here while we pulled a prank on their neighbor--I feel I should interrupt myself for a moment here and explain that we knew these people before hand and it was fully ok with them that we prank the A's.

At this point we put on our grease paint. Then, with hoods up, we crept towards the A's house with all the proper technique of a blind hippo. To our advantage, the tv was on quite loud. They didn't hear a bit of our blundering about.

Out came the neon pink spray paint. Literally, all over the grass. We wrote all kinds of little things on both the front and back lawns. Then we shaving creamed Mister's truck windows.

Now, this is where it gets exciting. The house is somewhat on a hill which makes the garage roof low enough to climb up on. This is what we did. There are three windows that look out over the garage. Two are bedrooms and the third is the bathroom. Earlier that day we had picked SG up from their house and while she was there she had unlocked the bathroom window and opened the screen enough for a small finger to slip under. We opened both screen and window (by the way, there was no one in the bathroom and the lights were off). It was too much of a jump to get up and into the small window on our own legs so we used one of their own chairs from inside the garage.

With some difficulty we made it into the bathroom. There we stood giggles getting louder and louder (yes, JW you were right :). We wanted to come out of the bathroom and ask something like, "Where do you keep your extra toilet paper?" but we couldn't so much as say, "boo"! So we ended up just screaming while we ran down the short flight of stairs to the living room. Mister just stared at us and [he told us later] tried to remember if we had been there the whole time. TA didn't even turn around from the computer, but I was so excited about just pulling it all off that it didn't matter so much.

I must have been extremely giddy because I laughed and bounced all over the place. They loved the grease paint.

I am still riding on that thrill high.