How would you suprise an adult ?

[Nicole Mulder]

Hey everyone My name is Nicole this is my very first post ! I am not necessarily a new fan I have been watching the dis episodes for months , and have finally subscribed to the daily email and to come on here to cut to the chase I am actually planning a suprise trip right now for my husband in May , so the question is how would you suprise your spouse , friend ... a scavenger hunt isn’t going to happen , he will know right away because I watched a bunch of you tube videos of parents surprising their kids to get some ideas for ours and let’s face it there is something wrong with you if you don’t like seeing a kid well up with happy tears ? So suggestions ??? What would you guys do or want

 

[Timothy02359]

Dinner with a nicely wrapped box containing a set of Mouse ears for him.

 

[easyas123]

Several years ago, on his birthday, I surprised my husband....he has a healthy chip & dip habit so I had a mickey head shaped chip bowl (still have it!!) and in the bottom I wrote when we were going and where we were staying in perm. marker. As he got to the bottom of the chips, he saw what was written! It was fun -

 

[jade'nsuch]

Before my first trip, my best friend called me while I was at Wendy's and said, and I quote, "you wanna go to Disney with Mom and me?" Lolol I will never forget it. It might be fun to just wait until y'all get Your magic bands and then just hand him his. Unless he likes bigger displays of surprise. If thats the case I like the previous 2 posts haha

 

[Dannielle]

2 years ago my mother celebrated her 60th Birthday.
My sister and I decided to surprise her with an Adult trip to Disney.
We booked the trip and the flights, planned all our Dining and FPs.
My sister somehow managed to steal my mother's luggage out of her house without her realizing it.
I packed her bag with all new toiletries, New Disney T-Shirts, some nice new socks, ponchos....
Then I created a letter from Mickey Mouse...it read something like..."Dear ____, I hear you have a very special birthday coming up and i am so happy that you will be spending it with us in Disney World. Don't worry Dannielle & (Sister) have planned everything. your flight leaves tomorrow morning at 6:50am. See Ya Real Soon, Mickey Mouse"
Then the day before the trip we drove to my parents house. put her suitcase, with the package of magic bands on top and the note from Mickey....rang the door bell...then hid and filmed her reaction.
My mom spent the week smiling from ear to ear. She couldn't believe we pulled it off without her realizing it. (we literally see each other 3-4 times a week)

I also surprised my children. I ordered a custom Puzzle. (I used Powerpoint to create the Disney Gates on World Drive, and added in the note Surprise we are going to Disney...then saved it as a picture) I ordered the puzzle from Walgreens photo (but a lot of photo places offer the puzzle option) My kids came home from school. I challenged them to complete a puzzle without the direction/picture...so that they can choose where we eat dinner that night. once the puzzle was all together...i told them that we need to leave now to head to the airport. They couldn't believe it. They thought it was just another ordinary Thursday night.

hope these help with some ideas

 

[jade'nsuch]

2 years ago my mother celebrated her 60th Birthday.
My sister and I decided to surprise her with an Adult trip to Disney.
We booked the trip and the flights, planned all our Dining and FPs.
My sister somehow managed to steal my mother's luggage out of her house without her realizing it.
I packed her bag with all new toiletries, New Disney T-Shirts, some nice new socks, ponchos....
Then I created a letter from Mickey Mouse...it read something like..."Dear ____, I hear you have a very special birthday coming up and i am so happy that you will be spending it with us in Disney World. Don't worry Dannielle & (Sister) have planned everything. your flight leaves tomorrow morning at 6:50am. See Ya Real Soon, Mickey Mouse"
Then the day before the trip we drove to my parents house. put her suitcase, with the package of magic bands on top and the note from Mickey....rang the door bell...then hid and filmed her reaction.
My mom spent the week smiling from ear to ear. She couldn't believe we pulled it off without her realizing it. (we literally see each other 3-4 times a week)

I also surprised my children. I ordered a custom Puzzle. (I used Powerpoint to create the Disney Gates on World Drive, and added in the note Surprise we are going to Disney...then saved it as a picture) I ordered the puzzle from Walgreens photo (but a lot of photo places offer the puzzle option) My kids came home from school. I challenged them to complete a puzzle without the direction/picture...so that they can choose where we eat dinner that night. once the puzzle was all together...i told them that we need to leave now to head to the airport. They couldn't believe it. They thought it was just another ordinary Thursday night.

hope these help with some ideas

Your surprise for your mom was AMAZING! Straight down to the ding don't not-so- ditch!

 

[Superchikk]

2 years ago my mother celebrated her 60th Birthday.
My sister and I decided to surprise her with an Adult trip to Disney.
We booked the trip and the flights, planned all our Dining and FPs.
My sister somehow managed to steal my mother's luggage out of her house without her realizing it.
I packed her bag with all new toiletries, New Disney T-Shirts, some nice new socks, ponchos....
Then I created a letter from Mickey Mouse...it read something like..."Dear ____, I hear you have a very special birthday coming up and i am so happy that you will be spending it with us in Disney World. Don't worry Dannielle & (Sister) have planned everything. your flight leaves tomorrow morning at 6:50am. See Ya Real Soon, Mickey Mouse"
Then the day before the trip we drove to my parents house. put her suitcase, with the package of magic bands on top and the note from Mickey....rang the door bell...then hid and filmed her reaction.
My mom spent the week smiling from ear to ear. She couldn't believe we pulled it off without her realizing it. (we literally see each other 3-4 times a week)

I also surprised my children. I ordered a custom Puzzle. (I used Powerpoint to create the Disney Gates on World Drive, and added in the note Surprise we are going to Disney...then saved it as a picture) I ordered the puzzle from Walgreens photo (but a lot of photo places offer the puzzle option) My kids came home from school. I challenged them to complete a puzzle without the direction/picture...so that they can choose where we eat dinner that night. once the puzzle was all together...i told them that we need to leave now to head to the airport. They couldn't believe it. They thought it was just another ordinary Thursday night.

hope these help with some ideas

I'm looking for a way to surprise our kids, and the puzzle idea intrigues me. DH & I have talked about a puzzle idea, but would be with an existing puzzle. I would put it together, and write a message on the back. "We're going to Disney World" or something like that. Then I'd take it all apart again. We'd put the puzzle together as a family, then either in the process "discover" that there are markings on the back or somehow after it's done. Flip it over & see the message. We do puzzles in the winter a lot, and this would be our 3rd since December. We usually do them over the course of a week.

Possibly the bigger question, though... how in the world did you pack everyone's things & get everything ready to leave without the kids discovering it? We have considered this, but I always have to drag suitcases out, take the dog to the kennel, etc. and am afraid we couldn't pull off a "last-minute" surprise.

Last year on Christmas morning, we surprised the kids with a trip to Universal. We weren't going for 2 weeks, but my kids LOVE the anticipation of a trip and it was actually part of their Christmas gift. I wrapped 10 items in small boxes, numbered, and put them in a large box. As they opened each numbered box in order, it was another clue about the trip - Hogwart's t-shirts, a wand, a Sorting Hat Christmas ornament, leading up to mock plane tickets, mock Universal tickets, and an info sheet about our hotel with pictures. I'm just afraid that since we've done something like that before, they'll figure out anything we do SUPER fast.

 

[Dannielle]

I'm looking for a way to surprise our kids, and the puzzle idea intrigues me. DH & I have talked about a puzzle idea, but would be with an existing puzzle. I would put it together, and write a message on the back. "We're going to Disney World" or something like that. Then I'd take it all apart again. We'd put the puzzle together as a family, then either in the process "discover" that there are markings on the back or somehow after it's done. Flip it over & see the message. We do puzzles in the winter a lot, and this would be our 3rd since December. We usually do them over the course of a week.

Possibly the bigger question, though... how in the world did you pack everyone's things & get everything ready to leave without the kids discovering it? We have considered this, but I always have to drag suitcases out, take the dog to the kennel, etc. and am afraid we couldn't pull off a "last-minute" surprise.

Last year on Christmas morning, we surprised the kids with a trip to Universal. We weren't going for 2 weeks, but my kids LOVE the anticipation of a trip and it was actually part of their Christmas gift. I wrapped 10 items in small boxes, numbered, and put them in a large box. As they opened each numbered box in order, it was another clue about the trip - Hogwart's t-shirts, a wand, a Sorting Hat Christmas ornament, leading up to mock plane tickets, mock Universal tickets, and an info sheet about our hotel with pictures. I'm just afraid that since we've done something like that before, they'll figure out anything we do SUPER fast.

The kids did ask where the Dog was when they got home from school. I told them that she was at the Groomers. (she was really at my parents).
since they went to school that day, i had packed while they were in school and hid the suitcases in our bedroom with the door closed.

i have surprised the kids in other ways too. once at 4:30am, we blasted the "When you Wish Upon a Star" through out the house. when the kids finally got out of their beds and came to find us in our bed...we pulled the covers down and jumped up and yelled surprise, we are going to Disney....right now. (i packed after they went to sleep, while my husband left the house to drop off the dog to my parents)

another time, we blasted the sound of a cruise ship horn through the house...when they came out to the living room, they found their suitcases and a sign that said "Surprise, we are going on a Cruise...NOW!"

 

[Superchikk]

The kids did ask where the Dog was when they got home from school. I told them that she was at the Groomers. (she was really at my parents).
since they went to school that day, i had packed while they were in school and hid the suitcases in our bedroom with the door closed.

i have surprised the kids in other ways too. once at 4:30am, we blasted the "When you Wish Upon a Star" through out the house. when the kids finally got out of their beds and came to find us in our bed...we pulled the covers down and jumped up and yelled surprise, we are going to Disney....right now. (i packed after they went to sleep, while my husband left the house to drop off the dog to my parents)

another time, we blasted the sound of a cruise ship horn through the house...when they came out to the living room, they found their suitcases and a sign that said "Surprise, we are going on a Cruise...NOW!"

Those are such fun ideas! You guys are great at pulling off surprises! Do they ever suspect? My kids are SUCH good guessers that if anything is out of the ordinary, they suspect, and usually guess right.

I think we've decided what we're going to do... DH takes a photo of the kids together every Sunday before we go to church. It's a thing he's done since they were itty bitty because his Mom (who lives far away) likes to see them in their "Sunday clothes" (which most of the time is just whatever they happen to choose. ha!). In our annual photo books, we put one from each month to illustrate how much they've grown over the year. Anyway, they stand in the same spot every week in front of our kitchen bar. I can stand behind them in the kitchen, and often do. So for the next several Sundays, I'm going to hold up a sign behind them that says "We're going to Disney World!" while he takes the photo, plus a photo with no sign. The photo he shares (and that they see) will be plain, with no sign. After we have several weeks worth of photos, we're going to show them the photos with me behind them holding the sign... it may be in a Valentine's day photo book or something like that... we haven't worked out that detail quite yet.

We have an ongoing joke that our dog finds a way to photobomb EVERY photo we take, and that's really not much of an exaggeration. So it's going to be a double joke that I'm the one photobombing. I just hope we can pull it off!

 

[Dr.Mickey]

Ok - not exactly the same. But my frugal dad surprised my newly retired mom with a Disney cruise. They had cruised on other lines several times, but he would never spring for Disney. They drove to the Cape, and he had a fake itenerary made up for the other cruise next door, and he simply turned into the Disney parking lot instead of the other, to her great astonishment.

My point is, you could have another trip planned as the fake and just go the other direction (or tell him at airline CheckIn if flying). This is probably too challenging for Disney, but either way it’s a cool story I thought.