Claire made this super sweet promo photo with all of our friends' faces. There's me at the top left corner. Eep!
My boyfriend is a big fan of the TV show Lost. He’s extremely knowledgeable in all things Lost, and even goes so far as to blog about it with his friend after every show. I’m pretty sure he knows the name of every character, every obscure reference and probably the title of every episode.
So, what would have been more appropriate for his surprise birthday bash than a Lost theme?
Yes, dear readers (do I even have dear readers?), I know that this is an ethnic food blog, but alas, what is more ethnic than jungle cuisine?
Don’t even think for a second that — in the midst of the leaf decorations, dry-ice smoke and bloody costumes — I didn’t pay attention to the menu.
We had shrimp salad tacos with corn tortillas, fresh fruit, beer (that we brewed ourselves) with Dharma Initiative labels and tropical cupcakes (made especially by Kalee and Mason).
Becky as Kate. Sweat stains and blood, too!
We required everyone to dress up like the Lost character that they resembled most, asked everyone to kindly sully their faces with dirt, apply fake blood and create strategically-located sweat stains to illustrate the strife and hardship of island living.
Andrew in his Jack costume.
Oversize banana leaves hung gently from the ceilings, as did garlands and garlands of paper leaves. There was a fisherman’s net and a blue tarp covering the furniture, as if we were trying to create some kind of shanty. One of our friends dressed as the smoke monster, and another came as the Island itself. We had a pregnant Claire, an Other and a Jack, of course. Three of us wore backpacks throughout the evening.
We had Lost trivia up on the walls, rolling ocean waves throughout the perimeter of the house and yet — somehow, inexplicably — the evening culminated with our entire group of friends singing Les Miserables’ “I Dreamed a Dream” to the birthday boy.
Ocean waves and leaf garlands
Kalee and Mason's pineapple-coconut island cupcakes
