Ben and I pulled the greatest trick ever on the boys.
Last Wednesday I told them we needed to meet Ben to go eat dinner with someone who was coming to interview with his company. He was only staying for an hour or so between flights, so we needed to go down to the airport to eat with him in one of the airport restaurants. Also, Ben's company needed to send several suitcases of papers back with this guy, so before we could go into the airport, we had to check the bags. The boys thought this was odd, but sometimes there's no understanding some of the strange decisions of corporations. Inside the airport, we went through security so that we could get to the restaurant. But, unfortunately, when we got in, we found out the guy's flight had been delayed, and he hadn't arrived yet. We ate anyway, and then sat at the gate where the guy would be coming in. Finally, his plane came to the gate. We didn't know what he looked like, but he knew Ben would be waiting for him with his family, so he would recognize us when he came off the plane. Well, the passengers came out of the plane one by one, but he wasn't there! So, we needed to go down into the plane to see if he was there! The airline gate agent, led us down to the plane. Once in the plane, Ben said, "Why don't we just sit in these seats and see if this plane is going anywhere good?"
At this point, the boys were totally baffled. "What's going on? Mom, what's going on?"
Ben sat by Mosey and asked him if he thought the flight attendants would notice we were on the plane. "Don't tell them, Dad!"
But, finally, we let the cat out of the bag. We were on our way to Florida!
Several months ago, we found great tickets to Orlando, so we decided to surprise the boys. Boy, was it a surprise! I kept thinking the boys would see through our extremely flimsy ruse, but I guess they trust their parents, or something... :-)
We flew into Orlando, arriving very early Thursday morning (like, 12:05 AM). We stayed the night in a hotel, and then drove down to South Florida the next day. We stayed 5 days, until Monday night, then drove back up to Orlando, and flew back home yesterday.
It was such a great trip. I have a bunch of pictures which I will try to get posted in the next few days. We went to Butterfly World, out to the Everglades, we took a glass-bottom boat tour out to the coral reef off of Key Largo, toured Coral Castle (Brigham loved this place), went to church at our old ward, spent some time with some dear friends, went to all our old haunts in Rock Creek (the area of Cooper City where we lived), went to the beach on Key Biscayne, went on a bike ride through the Hugh Taylor Birch State Park, and finally back to the beach one last time.
It was so much fun and such a needed break for all of us.
Now we're home, suitcases are unpacked, laundry is started, and it's back to real life. :-)
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we pulled this trick on our kids once. Told them I had to meet a client, again with important papers in the suitcases. You should have seen their eyes when the plane started moving. What a hoot! Even though they are grown now, they remember that well - wonder if they'll pull it on their kids now...mmmmmmmmm
Wow, what a trick. That reminds me of what Jill and Steven did when they took their kids to Disneyland--had the car all packed, and just asked them one night if they'd like to go to Disneyland instead of eating dinner :). I bet this will be something that your boys never forget.
Oh my goodness!! I was wondering where you were all last week! What a wonderful thing to do --I wish I could be a more spontaneous person. Duty is sometimes overrated.
So fun that you pulled off that great surprise!
I told my hubby about this. We sat and debated for about an hour whether we could pull that off. :) My oldest as Aspergers so when he's anticipating a change he's a nightmare...we reveled in how nice it would be to not have panic attacks leading up to a trip. Then we wondered how bad the tantrum would be at an abrupt change in schedule like that. We're still occasionally debating which would be worse...b'cause I totally want to do it to them. :)
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