The Best Surprise You Have Pulled Off

[disneynut4u]

In 2004, my sister & I decided to surprise our mom & stepdad with a trip to WDW. I can't remember why, but the entire family was at mom's house for a meal, and we decided to do a game to "reveal" the trip. It was kinda like "Hangman". They enlisted the kids to help them guess. When one of the kids solved it, they just looked at us "are you kidding?"

We were glad we took them because about a year later, my stepdad died of cancer. At the time of the trip, no one knew he had it. They got to have one great trip before he passed.

 

[BigNormsMom]

For Christmas last year my son gave me an all expense paid trip with him, his wife and twins sons to WDW. We were to arrive on January 15, 2011 at ASM and stay until the morning of the 23rd. As we were driving down the road he turned right instead of left the way to ASM. I told he turned the wrong way. He said he wanted to show me something. We pulled into Saratoga Springs and he said as a surprise he had booked us there instead. It was awesome. One of the most luxurious surprises I have ever had. Oh yeah, we had a marvelous time at all the park's too .
:sohappy:

 

[dramamama]

Back in April just before our spring break we surprised our turning 6 year old son with a trip for his birthday. He knew we were going on a trip or two during spring break, but is used to that since we have to travel to see any family. He is a beginning reader so it takes him a while to sound out words and then may not comprehend a paragraph by the time he finishes reading it. A day and a half before we left for WDW we gave him his birthday card while waiting to be seated at a restaurant. We told him his present was inside and it had to be something that did not take up any room on his toy shelves since he already had too many toys. He looked really disappointed and even more so when he opened the card and saw several lines of print that I told him he had to read to get his present! (I had printed in simple words that we were going down for 3 days to Disney and staying at All Star Music.) He sounded out the words he did not recognize, but didn't realize what he was reading until he got to the words "Disney World". He kept asking all through dinner "We are really going to Disney? You mean it?" I think he slept with that card that night!

 

[Illumination]

I have no kids or husband to surprise, yet. But I do have a younger sister (relatively speaking. I'm 23, she's 20). Just this last December we decided to do a birthday trip for my sister. She was in on it, and very excited. She had the option of either having the family do MVMCP, or bringing one friend with her. She took forever to decide, and finally went with bringing a friend.

So the trip finally arrives, and she and her friend head up early. I'm supposed to follow later at night with my parents, driving with them. Instead I took off of work early, raced up there, and met them just in time to check in. They were surprised I was there so early, but I brushed it off and made up some work related excuse. So the three of us got on the monorail to tour the Big Three, as we call the hotels along the MK loop.

My sister's idea was to look at the hotels and then go to Planet Hollywood at DTD for dinner. My idea was different. I had secretly bought 3 passes for MVMCP. Once on the monorail I made a show of pretending that my AP was lost. I got off at MK, claiming I needed to get a new pass. They went on to the GF. I picked up the tickets, jumped back on the monorail and met them at the hotel. Turns out they were starving and wanted to go to eat now. They were just heading out the door, when I told them we couldn't go to DTD. They both turned and asked why, and I flashed the tickets. I think I said something like, "Because we have to go to the Magic Kingdom!" or some such thing. They were shocked. My sister was in complete denial until we actually entered the park. It was such a blast.