So I took a more simplistic approach. I bought a few chick flicks that she had been hounding me about and a gift bag and a artificial rose poking out the top. I cut a slit in the DVD packaging and slipped the tickets inside one of the movies. Knowing that Katie is a detail hawk I thought that the tampering with the package would set off alarm bells and force her to open the movie to check and see if it was stolen.
So Allison and I give her the package and say happy early birthday. Like two months early so that really caught her off guard. She takes the rose out and open the bag to find the two movies.
"Thanks for the early gift of movies??" Still with a confused look I tell her that there were not many left so I grabbed on knowing this was the movie you
really wanted. So go ahead and open it and we will watch movie.
I was for sure this would work. She opened the DVD as easy as stick of gum.
Me: "How did you open that so easy?"
Katie: "I don't know the plastic just came right off."
Without the use of anything sharp this was an amazing. So I tell her to check inside to make sure the movie is in there. She pops open the case, yup it's in there. And she closed the case back. At this point I am in the face palm position on the couch.
Me: "Are you sure you didn't see anything else? Check again."
She opens the case again and takes a longer look at the DVD and the contents and shuts the case. Now I am in a double face palm.
Me: "Katie look inside, what was that white thing?"
She opens again and takes a closer look to see my name printed on the front cover of the ticket pack. After reading and absorbing for what seemed like forever she finally starts to freak out. I explain what we are doing and when and that I needed to do this early to get a babysitter.
Katie: "Did you get the day off work?"
Me: "No, they denied the request so I will be ill that day."
I tell her to thank her daughter for the tickets. She woke me up early that morning on my vacation after you turned off my alarm. If I wasn't up to buy the tickets at @ 9:00 am we would be stuck in the back of the house. But everything worked out and we are a week away from enjoying our show. I am just as excited as her to get out of town even if just for the day.