Surprise!

[newtodis]

This is a two-fold thread...

Part 1 - What's the best surprise you've ever gotten - Disney related or not?

Part 2 - What's the best way to surprise your family with a trip to Disney?? A friend and I are planning a surprise trip in Dec and want to "spill the beans" around Thanksgiving. DF's girlfriend and son have never been so a total surprise for them (one of my best friends and her 13 year old son). I'd be surprising my DH, DS5 (he'll be 6 when we go) and DS3 (he'll be 4 when we go). My kids are asking all the darn time when we can go to Disney again (we went 5 times last year and haven't been back since September). I surprised DH and DS5 for their birthday in July and broke the news at the welcome center in FL. No one had any idea but me and DH's boss (he had to know to get the time off!). It was great. I think this will be the pick me up our friends need and will be a nice trip for all of us.

So share your surprises and your ideas please.

 

[dakcp2001]

1. best surprise was when my DF popped the question outside of Narccossees when we were watching Wishes the first night of our vacation.


2. Maybe send yourself a "Disney Box" filled with Mouse Ears for each child and some Disney stuff via UPS so you can act suprised when they open it and it says you are going to Disney!! I would suggest doing this on a Disney movie night!

or do one of the themed movie nights, like watch Lady & the Tramp and eat Spagetti & meatballs, and then for dessert bring out a Cake that says Congrats, you are going to Disney!

 

[newtodis]

1. best surprise was when my DF popped the question outside of Narccossees when we were watching Wishes the first night of our vacation.


2. Maybe send yourself a "Disney Box" filled with Mouse Ears for each child and some Disney stuff via UPS so you can act suprised when they open it and it says you are going to Disney!! I would suggest doing this on a Disney movie night!

or do one of the themed movie nights, like watch Lady & the Tramp and eat Spagetti & meatballs, and then for dessert bring out a Cake that says Congrats, you are going to Disney!

Aww - congrats on your surprise! How wonderful!! Thanks for the idea! I hadn't thought about that!! They love the UPS truck.

 

[dakcp2001]

You will have to let us know how it goes!

 

[hrh_disney_queen]

I had just had DS10 4 months prior. DS11 was 25 months old. I was somewhat overwhelmed but managing to get through the days. I began to notice parts of the newspaper being clipped. It didn't raise a red flag, DH did this often. One weekend, DH said to ask my mom to babysit, he had a company party we needed to go to. He was kind of vague, but I got my mom to sit, and dressed up in party attire. We drove down to his office building, got out of the car and started to walk towards the darkened building. Then he says, nope, turn around and go this way. Towards the performing arts center. He hands me a manila envelope with all the newspaper clippings-announcing that my absolute favorite performer-Jackson Browne-had a concert that night. He had been cutting them out so I wouldn't see. We walked into the beautiful auditorium and he led me to our front row center seats. The concert was unbelievable, and that was the nicest thing that anyone has ever done for me.

I have no idea how to surprise anyone with a WDW vacation. I have tried 3 times and failed miserably, and now I have just given up.

 

[newtodis]

I had just had DS10 4 months prior. DS11 was 25 months old. I was somewhat overwhelmed but managing to get through the days. I began to notice parts of the newspaper being clipped. It didn't raise a red flag, DH did this often. One weekend, DH said to ask my mom to babysit, he had a company party we needed to go to. He was kind of vague, but I got my mom to sit, and dressed up in party attire. We drove down to his office building, got out of the car and started to walk towards the darkened building. Then he says, nope, turn around and go this way. Towards the performing arts center. He hands me a manila envelope with all the newspaper clippings-announcing that my absolute favorite performer-Jackson Browne-had a concert that night. He had been cutting them out so I wouldn't see. We walked into the beautiful auditorium and he led me to our front row center seats. The concert was unbelievable, and that was the nicest thing that anyone has ever done for me.

I have no idea how to surprise anyone with a WDW vacation. I have tried 3 times and failed miserably, and now I have just given up.

What an amazing story! Thanks for sharing!!

 

[simba928]

1. The best surprise I got was my dog. I had been volunteering at the shelter for 3 weeks and fell in love with an 11 month old collie/shepherd mix named Lacey. My parents asked me to go pick my brother up at band practice and when we got home Lacey was sitting in the dining room. Love that dog but she drives me crazy sometimes. HAHA.

2. My parents have suprised us several times when we were going to Disney. One time my dad, brother, and I got home and my mom had all our suitcases packed and sitting in front of the door with Disney tags on them. She told us to pack our carry-ons and we were leaving in the AM. Another time my mom picked my brother and I up from school early to go to a doctor's appointment (or so we thought). She works at the airport so she said she had to run up to her office and we had to bring our backpacks in filled with homework because she wanted to get her van cleaned at the garage where she parked. We got there and my dad was sitting there with all our bags. Another trip she wrapped up plane tickets and sat them in the middle of the living room after we were all out of the house on Christmas. Then when we got home there was mysteriously another present sitting there and when we opened it we found out we were going to Disney in a couple weeks. One of my favorites, though, was when we were doing a whole family trip to Disney (grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins) for my grandfather's 75 birthday (we always took them away somewhere as their gift for all the holidays from birthdays to Christmas but decided to go big for his 75). They hadn't been there since their kids were little. My cousins and I cut out letters spelling out "We're going to Disney! Feb 1-7" and had them arrange the words to make sense. They weren't getting it and my cousins and i were all getting so antsy waiting for them to figure it out we finally just told them. Took awhile to explain that we were all going, but my grandfather got this huge grin on his face.

 

[Handbag Lady]

1. I have two:

A. My husband and I go to Vegas a lot but early on, we couldn't afford the nicer places and usually stayed at the Flamingo or likewise, whoever had a coupon. On my birthday, he bought me a ticket to see an art exhibit I was dying to see at Bellagio and he said he couldn't go because he had to uncheck us out of one hotel and move our luggage to another one (again we were coupon crazy and this made total sense). Then, he collected me from the gallery, and said he found the way to the tower on top of Bellagio. I have ALWAYS wanted to go up there so I was game. We 'snuck' past the guards at the elevators and made our way to the 16th floor where he said there was another elevator at the end of the hall and stopped half-way down and put a key into a room and it was ours! WHEEEEEE! We had a huge room with a view of Lake Como. I was in heaven. (And yes, he had spoken to the guards ahead of time so that it would look like we were sneaking past.)

B. For my 40th Birthday, I was told the following: I had to take two days off of work and I had to pack a carry-on for three days, weighing less than 25 pounds all in, including my handbag. I was driven to the docks of Long Beach where we checked in for a helicopter ride to Catalina Island. It was fogged in and we ended up taking the boat over and the chopter back, but, WHAT a wonderful surprise. We even stayed in the coolest hotel there, too. We spent the night before my 40th birthday in a dive bar with some sailors (as in they had a HUGE sailboat and were our age, not some old men Navy men) from SF. At midnight, the place went nuts shouting happy 40th to me and the barkeep gave me free booze.

2. Can you get your family together and ask them what is the biggest and best thing they'd like and then have things (mouse ears and maps and planning books) ready for them when they get the right answer?

 

[newtodis]

Thanks for sharing your surprises everyone! I love stories like that!! I've never really gotten a surprise (other than finding out why I had the flu for three months! LOL thanks to DS5) so I love to hear other people's stories!

I think we're going to tell the rest of the group at a birthday party. The birthday girl who's older than me (not that that makes her old - just shows what a kid she is!) wants to go to Chuck E Cheese for her birthday. I'm thinking (so long as it's ok with her BF) that I'm going to get Mickey ears with all of their names on it and give that to her as her gift. He wants to make a sign for my kids to unroll that says "We're going to Disney in December!!". We'll see how it goes. I still don't know if that's the 100% plan but that's what we've got right now. I can't wait to see the look on their faces!! Should be fun!

 

[coinkc]

I surprised my daughter for her 8th birthday. I woke her up at 4:00 in the morning (our plane left at 6:00) the day before her actual birthday. I told her I had wrapped her present the night before and I was just too excited for her to open it so she could open it early.

I gave her one of the giant boxes from the Disney Store with Cinderella on it and it was full of tissue paper. At the bottom of the box was a card from Mickey and the Gang that said "We can't wait to see you again. Now go get dressed...the plane leaves in an hour!"

The look on her face was absolutely priceless!!! My dad showed up at the door a few minutes later. She ran up to him and said "GPA we're going to Dizzyworld! Can you give us a ride to the airport?"

It was hilarious!!! she just thought he happened to be in the neighborhood and stopped by as a coincidence...at 4:00 in the morning!

We still talk about that day often...as fun as it is to plan a trip together, I would surprise her again in a heartbeat if the opportunity arose.

 

[smilie]

Best surprise was my daughter. We tried the entire pregnancy through numerous ultrasounds to find out the gender. But she wouldn't give it up. The second they said it was a girl I was elated!

 

[newtodis]

Best surprise was my daughter. We tried the entire pregnancy through numerous ultrasounds to find out the gender. But she wouldn't give it up. The second they said it was a girl I was elated!

What a wonderful surprise!!!

 

[Normangirls]

1. Best surprise -- DD4. We call her "Boo" because she surprised us so much! We thought we were done (after DD13 and DD9), and medically speaking, should not have been able to have any more kids. We were wrong!

2. I couldn't do this! The girls, DH and I love to spend the whole year talking about our trip. We buy small things to take with us (like we hit the dollar store Saturday and picked up a bunch of glow sticks) all year long. To surprise them would take away the months and months of planning and dreaming about our trip.

 

[newtodis]

1. Best surprise -- DD4. We call her "Boo" because she surprised us so much! We thought we were done (after DD13 and DD9), and medically speaking, should not have been able to have any more kids. We were wrong!

2. I couldn't do this! The girls, DH and I love to spend the whole year talking about our trip. We buy small things to take with us (like we hit the dollar store Saturday and picked up a bunch of glow sticks) all year long. To surprise them would take away the months and months of planning and dreaming about our trip.

What a great surprise!

That's why we're only keeping the secret for a couple of weeks. We're not going until December so they'll have the rest of the year to have "Disney nights" and work on planning our trip!

 

[Normangirls]

That's why we're only keeping the secret for a couple of weeks. We're not going until December so they'll have the rest of the year to have "Disney nights" and work on planning our trip!

There you go -- that's the perfect combination!