If you missed Part 1, here is a link Now what??
They all stood in front of the door of the mysterious house reading the note that had been under the doormat. Tink was holding the key which had been under the mat as well. In the note it has said that he was supposed to be the first one to walk in the door.
“I wonder why you have to walk in the door first.” said Snowball.
“Me too!” said the others, and Tink’s face grew red.
“I am not sure that I want to walk through the door first. Who knows what is in there?”
“That is true, a strange bird could come flying out and attack you!” said Snowball.
“Or perhaps a hippo!” said Alabaster.
Everyone gave Alabaster a strange look. “A hippo?” said Jinx.
“Hey, you never know!” replied Alabaster, looking sheepish.
Tink shook his head as he put the key in the door. What did he have to be nervous about? He was letting his imagination get the best of him.
He turned the lock, and said “Here I go!” The others stood back a little as they watched him.
Tink walked in and “KERPLUNK!” a large bucket fell on him dumping out a ton of confetti all over him! He stood there in shock as the others were laughing.
They all noticed the banner stretched across the room at the same time. “Happy Birthday Tink!”
“Hey, we didn’t know it was your birthday!” Snowball said.
“Well apparently Candy Cane found out.” said Tink.
“Ahh! Santa must have told her, Santa knows everything!” Jinx said.
Spying the large Double Chocolate birthday cake on the counter, they all headed over to help themselves. 2 pots of coffee were beside it.
“Wow! This is one BIG cake and look at ALL the candles, how old are you Tink?” asked Snowball. Tink’s face flushed once again.
“I am not sure if we should light all of them, look how many candles there are! Is it safe?” Snowball asked.
“Sure!” said Jangle, “Here, I will light the match” and he picked up the matches that were lying on the counter.
After all the candles were lit, they told Tink to take a deep breath for there were soooo many candles.
Tink took a deep breath as he made a wish and then he started to blow. He blew as hard as he could, but there were just too many candles and it started getting smoky!
“SPLASH!!!” Tink and his friends were suddenly getting rained upon inside! That is when they noticed the sign on the stove saying about how there was an indoor sprinkler system installed for fire protection.
It didn’t take long at all for the candles to go out and the smoke to go away causing the sprinklers to stop. The friends all looked at each other and were speechless for a moment as they were dripping wet. Then Snowball spoke up.
“Do you think Candy Cane knew about this sprinkler system?”
Alabaster said, “Do you think that she purposely put that many candles on the cake knowing that it would set off the sprinkler system?”
“Nah!” Jinx replied , “but yet….” and they all were thinking. Suddenly they were startled by a sound. Turning their heads they looked out the window and saw Dinosauris landing on the top of the hill. They were ready to go, they had some questions for Candy Cane!
I’m surprised that the hippo 🦛 didn’t eat the cake 🎂.
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I am sure the hippo would have eaten the cake IF there would have been a hippo BUT there wasn’t! That was just Alabaster’s wild imagination! 🙂
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I’m not so sure. There may have been a hippo. A friend of the dragon, perhaps.
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Oooh but I am sure, there were no hippos! 🙂 Poor Alabaster wants one BUT…he is just confused!
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Santa will get him one for Christmas
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Well I sure hope that Santa knows his animals better than Alabaster does or he may be surprised with what he gets!
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Well, Santa does believe that reindeer can fly, so who knows.
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Wait!! Are you saying reindeer don’t fly???
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In my experience they don’t fly, but I am not a reindeer expert.
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Well maybe you are right. Maybe he secretly uses flying hippos instead.
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That would probably make more sense.
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LOL!
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And my words about “flying hippos” will probably come back to haunt me!
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Well, you do have a vivid imagination so who knows.
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Haha! I know someone else with a vivid imagination too. 🙂
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Hippos fly?
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This story was dripping with surprises. So, is it really Tink’s birthday? He just mentioned to me today that he’s 63. That’s a lot of candles. He’s really up there. I mean, he makes the hills look young, and the trees look like saplings.
Happy birthday, Tink!
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Yes, it is! I just found out by reading the a comment in his post earlier today. Wow! He is OLD, eh? Getting up there close to you. LOL! 🙂
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He may try, but he’ll never catch up with me.
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Yeah, I never will either, sad isn’t it! 😄
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Hmm, that is kind of sad.
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And, how old are you?
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Plenty-nine.
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Never heard of that number…🤔
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It’s plenty high enough.
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I’m 54…but, I may have already expressed that.
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I’m a smartass. Okay, I’m 61.
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See. You’re still not old enough to draw SS, yet.
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Not quite. And at 62, what you get isn’t much.
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Ed Zachary. I’m not altogether sure I’ll even get ANY.
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Well, it’s supposed to run out of funds sometime in the near future. We’ll see what happens then, but I’ll bet a lot of politicians will be coming up with excuses.
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Ed Zachary…2!
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Yup, far higher than my number!
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But in just 73 days, your number will be up. Or, that is, it will go up. In fact, both of them will.
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😶🤚!!
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There is no chance of you losing count is there!
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No. And it gets easier and easier, the closer we get.
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Double chocolate cake with coffee? That sounds yum but, I’m seeing elves jacked up on caffeine and bouncing off the walls. But, with wet cake & watered down coffee, maybe not.
Tink is 63? I missed that. How old do elves get?
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Yes, I was thinking of them when I had the sprinkler go off, can’t have them too wired! I think the water probably mellowed them down!
Yes, Yesterday he did! And since he hasn’t seen this post yet, he is late to his own party!
Elves get very, very old! 🙂
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Wait. Who is Tink?
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LOL! Its not Tippy. Its Jim. 🙂
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Ah. Thank you!
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B-b-but what about the c-c-cake? Nobody ate that lovely chocolate cake??? What a waste! What a shame! 🎂 And presents … where were the presents??? 🎁
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Chef Salvo had a big cake waiting for him when they returned and there were presents! 🙂
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Sigh. I guess that helps, but the other cake was still wasted … all that lovely chocolate and wine! What was in the presents???
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what a wonderful birthday celebration to be surrounded by my fellow elves! And I’m assuming the cake was vegan, and the coffee was vegan. that’s what you have to look forward to when you’re 63… 🙂
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Oh of course. All vegan! Though the cake may be a little soggy. 🙂
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the water might make it taste better… 🙂
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Haha!! I believe that!
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I am a farrrrrr way from. 63, at least that is what I keep telling myself!
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Next year I have the Beatles song to look forward to…
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🙂
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