April Fools!

It was a quiet afternoon and our dad was at work (coming home in an hour or so.) We scrambled to put together an April Fools prank. First, we dipped little fuzzy balls in chocolate. They looked exactly like cherry chocolates. We opened a can of pop and substituted the contents for highly concentrated salt water. Then we put a note on the door saying we'd gone to a movie and would be home soon. We decided to hide in the closet with Dad's laptop loaded with a cat meowing sound effect.



To add to the deception, we printed this recipe and left it on the counter.




There was only one thing left to do....wait and wait for Dad to come home. He was almost a half hour late. But finally, Marielle, the lookout, spotted the van coming up the driveway and we all piled into the closet with the laptop.



It turned out that he fell for every one of our traps! He ate a whole phony fluff ball chocolate, drank a big swig of salt water and was checking on line to see which movie we might have gone to (without him!) when he heard the cat. The cat sounds became more and more frantic and we had a hard time keeping our composure as we heard his "Here kitty, kitty!" calls. But we managed to surprise him with our screaming when he opened the door. This picture fails to capture his look of utter shock. He made it so fun!