PHASE 2: OK, Everyone...LET'S HAVE FUN WITH THIS ONE! PHASE 2!

[Blueeyes101817]

cant wait to hear how the surprise goes!

 

[cfrith]

I might do this when we surprise our dd's 4 and 7. Only the 7 yo would be able to read it though. How do you make homemade fortune cookies?

 

[brneyegirl24]

WE HAVE MADE OUR DECISION!
First and foremost, we want to thank everyone for their fantastic ideas! It was difficult to choose just one.
Yet after going back-and-forth, a zillion times, we have choosen....

The fortune cookie idea! Thank you, carolfoy for the very creative idea!


________________________________________________________________
ORIGINAL POST:My DH and I just booked a SURPRISE all-expense-paid trip to WDW for my daughter, her husband, their two kids, my son & his girlfriend and our younger son.
My DH & I are going, too!

Now we need a creative way to announce the surprise!

A little info: We will be going the last week in August for 6 days/5 nights. Booked 3 rooms at POP.
Everyone will have the park hopper, "water park fun & more" option, and the dining plan. Airfare, too.
The ages of the ones to be surprised are: 2, 5, 9, 18, 20, 25 & 28...
most of whom have never been to Disney!​

That is so awesome!!!!! Thanks for letting all of us be a part of your decision! Please let us know how it goes when you tell them!! Also, be sure to get lots of pictures. They would be a wonderful way to start out your WDW Family Vacation photo album. You and your husband are such wonderful people! I hope your family has a wonderful time!! There are so many great memories waiting to happen!!!! ENJOY!!!!!!

 

[mommyceratops]

I can't wait to hear they are going to be so surprised.

Let us know.

 

[lynninpa]

I might do this when we surprise our dd's 4 and 7. Only the 7 yo would be able to read it though. How do you make homemade fortune cookies?

You could always use little pictures or little stickers in the fortune cookies for your 4 yo! Hey, even the 7 yo would probably like that, too! I might do a combo of words and pictures. Like an airplane as a clue since we are flying down.
Go to www.foodtv.com and type in fortune cookies in the search box. There are two very easy recipes there. Let us know if you will be doing this idea-or whatever idea you use for your surprise!

 

[bigsis1970]

Cool ideas -- I am doing a Easter egg hunt with the puzzle peices hidden in the eggs for my kids surprise!!! I bought just the plain white puzzle at the craft store and will decorate it somehow so when they put it together they will see we are heading to Disney the next day for April Vacation week!!! Michelle

 

[lynninpa]

Cool ideas -- I am doing a Easter egg hunt with the puzzle peices hidden in the eggs for my kids surprise!!! I bought just the plain white puzzle at the craft store and will decorate it somehow so when they put it together they will see we are heading to Disney the next day for April Vacation week!!! Michelle

Ohhh! That is wonderful, Michelle! How exciting that will be!

 

[bigsis1970]

Thanks ! Let us know how the fortune cookie surprise turns out!

 

[lynninpa]

phase II !

 

[bigsis1970]

Ok how many cookies are you having made??
You could do 5,4,3,2,1 thing My puzzle is going to say this :
5 hours on a plane
4 parks
3 suitcases
2 excited kids!
1 World

Or you could do a bunch of messages and the last one saying something like -- The look on your faces when you found out we are taking you all Disney -- Priceless

 

[SanDiegoDayTripper]

OK, I'm obsessed, I've been thinking about this all day ...

You know how fortune cookies have "Lucky Numbers?" How about things like dates of significant Disney milestones? Or your flight number? Or the phone number of the hotel? When everyone starts talking about the weird numbers they have, just say nonchalantly, "Oh, 248? That's funny, I just booked a flight with that number" "(800) XXX-XXXX, oh, I just called that number to confirm a hotel reservation" "1955, huh,that's the year Disneyland opened"
"08/02/06? oh, that's the date we're leaving..." "FOR DISNEYWORLD!"

OK, can you tell I love the drama of a surprise!!

 

[carolfoy]

Ok heres my suggestion, place two words or more in each cookie so that everyone has two words that are totally random, they then have to make a sentence out of them, i.e.
we're
may 12

to
on

going
and

we're
disney

hotel
staying

in a
disney


so when they're done they get 'we're going to disney on may 12th and we're staying in a disney hotel'
or words to that effect

 

[lynninpa]

Ok how many cookies are you having made??
You could do 5,4,3,2,1 thing My puzzle is going to say this :
5 hours on a plane
4 parks
3 suitcases
2 excited kids!
1 World

Or you could do a bunch of messages and the last one saying something like -- The look on your faces when you found out we are taking you all Disney -- Priceless

what a great idea! thank you! ps we are making 9 cookies

 

[lynninpa]

OK, I'm obsessed, I've been thinking about this all day ...

You know how fortune cookies have "Lucky Numbers?" How about things like dates of significant Disney milestones? Or your flight number? Or the phone number of the hotel? When everyone starts talking about the weird numbers they have, just say nonchalantly, "Oh, 248? That's funny, I just booked a flight with that number" "(800) XXX-XXXX, oh, I just called that number to confirm a hotel reservation" "1955, huh,that's the year Disneyland opened"
"08/02/06? oh, that's the date we're leaving..." "FOR DISNEYWORLD!"

OK, can you tell I love the drama of a surprise!!

Just today, a coworker came up with the "lucky number" idea for us, too! Thanks to you and my coworker, we will definitely be using this idea for, at least, one of the cookies!

 

[lynninpa]

oops duplicate post

 

[lynninpa]

Ok heres my suggestion, place two words or more in each cookie so that everyone has two words that are totally random, they then have to make a sentence out of them, i.e.
we're
may 12

to
on

going
and

we're
disney

hotel
staying

in a
disney


so when they're done they get 'we're going to disney on may 12th and we're staying in a disney hotel'
or words to that effect

Ahhhh, carolfoy-the lady of the hour! Again, thank you so much for coming up with whole fortune cookie idea in the first place! And I love the ideas you snet in today, of using random words to make a game out of. So clever!

 

[carolfoy]

you're so welcome Lynn, I just wish I had the bottle to keep a secret like you. I booked again for this year after insisting to Callum that there's no way we should go AGAIN!!! and I managed to keep it secret for about, oh, lets say, two hours!! and that was only because he wasn't home when I booked
I'm so intrigued by the whole thing I just wish I could be there to see their faces....
... actually just thought, I could turn up at your house and surprise them all wit the trip!! now, that would be something!!