Surprise Party
Posted on May 24, 2008 by Ching under Family, Flickr, Life.
Brian threw me a surprise party last Sunday. He had been acting weird the days leading up to it so I kinda-sorta knew something was up. After we picked up Jan at her house, it looked like we were driving to his parents’ house so I knew where he was taking me even though he had Jan blindfold me half-way through. He didn’t drive around to various places to disorient me. He wasn’t tricky about it or anything, so I could tell where we were going.
It wasn’t fun being blindfolded. That’s for sure! It actually made me feel somewhat queasy. When we got there, I was surprised by Bill and Lisa (their kids, Mia and Charlie were there too), April and Corey, Grandma and Grandpa, and David and Donna. Chad, Jay, and Becca came too, but they did not arrive until later. I really didn’t think we were doing anything special because we had just celebrated the previous Sunday (for Mother’s Day) and we were celebrating again tonight. I figured we would just skip last weekend. As it is, we have been celebrating for various reasons three weeks in a row. I can’t argue, though, because I love celebrating. I think everyday is a reason to celebrate.
Here are pictures of Brian and Jan leading me to the door blindfolded:
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Brian and I continue our post graduation celebration today by getting a well-deserved hour-and-a-half couples massage at Beau Monde. That’s this afternoon.
SIDE NOTE: I deserve it for going to school full time and work full time, nonstop, since 2003. Brian deserves it for putting up with me.
After that we are picking up Grandma and Grandpa and taking them to the Brubakers for one final family dinner before David and Donna leave for their thirteen-day Baltic cruise. They leave on Tuesday and will be celebrating their 35th wedding anniversary on the trip.
As for Brian and I, we are going to see the last balcony showing of Indiana Jones after dinner. Then we’ll have to get up early the next day to drive to Kansas City. We are hitting Legends Mall, playing a poker tournament at Harrah’s on Sunday, spending the night there, and then playing another poker tournament on Monday before heading back. There may be some other gambling and other activities mixed in, depending on how quickly we get knocked out of the tournament. Hopefully, that won’t be the case though. I’d like to be able to make it to the final table and maybe even win the whole thing. That would be nice.
It’s going to be a long weekend, one that we will probably need to recover from at some point. Ugh. I tried to talk Brian into waiting to see Indiana Jones until next weekend, but he whined and moaned and groaned and protested that it will not be in the balcony next weekend so we must see it today. I hope the movie doesn’t disappoint because we didn’t even get my favorite seats =P and we are having to watch it late so we can squeeze in into our tight schedule this weekend and it will probably make us really, really tired.
I shouldn’t complain, though. Brian and I have been looking forward to this weekend for several weeks now. Please be sure to check out my photostream on Flickr, as I will post pictures as the weekend progresses. Have a wonderful and safe Memorial weekend, everyone!
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