FarmBoy78
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Oct 22, 2014
So, my wife and I were lucky enough to make it to DL earlier this year. We fell in love (we're WDW vets). We'd love to take my mom to DL, as she would love it too (and hey, it's an excuse for us to go).
We're trying to think of ideas on how to give her such a gift this coming Christmas. One vague idea we've had is to give her a bunch of really small stocking-stuffer type things, or smaller gifts, that hint to DL. Then at the end of gift opening, we'd tell her there's one more gift, but she has to solve the riddlepuzzle or something.
We haven't dug deep into yet as we've been busy...so I figured I would go to you good folks for some ideas/help. If it proves not worth it, we won't do it and come up with some other unique way of "telling her."
So what am I talking about? Well, for example, in my mom's case...she love's tomato juice or V-8. So a can of V-8 in her stocking or a 6-pack would subtlety reference Flo's V-8 cafe for example. Or if we wanted to do something like a dinner at Napa Rose, we could give her a bottle of wine from the Napa region and a rose accompanying it. It wouldn't directly point to DL at all, but if she looks back when we tell her, she'll have some trouble (we don't want it too obvious of course), but eventually get it because we told her all about it, or she can Google, etc.
We just thought it might be a neat idea. Again, if we can't figure it out, nothing lost, but figured the bright minds here might help with some pieces to the riddle.
Thanks,
FB78
We're trying to think of ideas on how to give her such a gift this coming Christmas. One vague idea we've had is to give her a bunch of really small stocking-stuffer type things, or smaller gifts, that hint to DL. Then at the end of gift opening, we'd tell her there's one more gift, but she has to solve the riddlepuzzle or something.
We haven't dug deep into yet as we've been busy...so I figured I would go to you good folks for some ideas/help. If it proves not worth it, we won't do it and come up with some other unique way of "telling her."
So what am I talking about? Well, for example, in my mom's case...she love's tomato juice or V-8. So a can of V-8 in her stocking or a 6-pack would subtlety reference Flo's V-8 cafe for example. Or if we wanted to do something like a dinner at Napa Rose, we could give her a bottle of wine from the Napa region and a rose accompanying it. It wouldn't directly point to DL at all, but if she looks back when we tell her, she'll have some trouble (we don't want it too obvious of course), but eventually get it because we told her all about it, or she can Google, etc.
We just thought it might be a neat idea. Again, if we can't figure it out, nothing lost, but figured the bright minds here might help with some pieces to the riddle.
Thanks,
FB78
Some context, my mother is essentially at a second home in New Orleans, so you see a lot of NOLA items. There is actually a hot sauce called Blue Bayou...it's the only one that is maybe a little too direct, but I don't think she'll put 2-and-2 together since we all like hot sauce and spicy and it's not an unusual type stocking stuffer in our family.
