Bon Voyage Party

Up to 2 Months Before

• Bake and completely cool Sailboat Cake; freeze unfrosted and uncut cake tightly wrapped.

Up to 3 Days Before

• Make Peanutty Good Luck Snack.

The Day Before

• Chill juice for Banana-Orange Sunrise.
• Remove cake from freezer; cut, frost and decorate.
• Make Olive and Onion Salsa for Subs recipe; cover and refrigerate.
• Make Orange Vinaigrette for Orange-Avocado Salad; cover and refrigerate. Prepare orange slices, onion rings and salad greens; store tightly wrapped in separate containers in refrigerator.

The Morning Of

• Make Spicy Tortilla Chips; store loosely covered.

Up to 4 Hours Before

• Make subs; wrap (uncut) in plastic wrap and refrigerate.
• Make Cherry Salsa; cover and refrigerate.

Just Before Serving

• Make Banana-Orange Sunrise.
• Cut subs.
• Prepare avocados for salad; complete the salad.
  

• Decorate with a nautical, tropical theme. Buy rope at a hardware, boating or home store. Make cardboard anchors of various sizes, and attach different lengths of rope; scatter them around the party area.
• Adopt a tropical color scheme, or use red, white and blue if traveling stateside.
• Blow up inflatable globes and inflatable palm trees (find at toy, party or museum stores), and hang from the ceiling or use to decorate the party area.
• Choose music from the traveler's destination. Purchase at a music store, search special music Internet sites or borrow from a library.
  

Bon Voyage Activities

• Hold boat races. Use toy boats and a plastic tub, or if you're partying by the water, use adult-size inflatable boats. Set up obstacles in the course for extra fun.
• Tell stories. Guests divide into groups of three or four, and create stories involving the guest or guests of honor. The trick is the players must use words given to them (cut about 12 from a newspaper or magazine, and paste on cards). You can require they use all but two of the words given. Someone from each group reads the composed story to the rest of the party-goers. Give the same words to each group, and you might be surprised at the results! You can award prizes to the funniest, most true to life and the craziest.

Bon Voyage Food

• Serve Peanutty Good Luck Snack out of a toy-size plastic boat or a bowl in a four-leaf clover shape.
• Fill a large plastic toy boat or inflatable boat with ice to hold canned or bottled beverages.