OK, so reading Cinderbella's plans to surprise her dbf with a two-day trip to WDW got me thinking: How many of you DCers out there have done something similar?
I want details! - lol
I'll start: I surprised DD last trip in August 2003. It was just her and me that trip (We were in Fla. making visits to colleges. She had a couple offers to play soccer at colleges in central Fla.). We were going to stay "one or two nights," NEAR WDW (at the Best Western at DTD) since we weren't going to have time for much actual WDW fun that trip. After she made her last visit, we went from Tampa to Orlando and checked in at the Best Western. The next day, we goofed around DTD saw some sites, ate at O'Hana that night and then went back to the Best Western. The next morning, we checked out and supposedly started driving "home."
I said, "Let's drive around one last time before we leave." So, we were driving past the entrance to CBR and I told her, "Someday, I really want to stay there." Then I said, "Heck, let's do it TODAY." I turned the car into the CBR entrance and we stayed there a week! (I had planned it all way in advance and had all the ressies, park passes and PS's arranged.)
Needless to say, she was stunned. She was supposed to have gone to France with a school group earlier that summer, but the trip had been cancelled because the school felt travelling abroad at that time would not be safe for the kids. The WDW surprise was because of that cancellation and it was a sort of reward for her getting a full-ride soccer scholarship. (She ended up at a college near St. Louis. She said Tampa was too far from home for her.) We had never stayed at the CBR and DD had said on nearly every trip since she was a wee lass that she loved how it looks and really wanted to stay there.)
HOW 'BOUT YOUR SURPRISE?
