RT Tickets to Dayton ~$200
Airport parking: $36
Mediocre airport food: $10
The look on a friend's face when you surprise her? Priceless
Last weekend I got to surprise my dear friend Helen...in Kentucky!
Mark (her husband) and I conspired to surprise her and it worked perfectly. The look on her face when she opened her front door and saw me was great. Ok, except that she cried. I'm telling myself she was happy and not looking like "Oh crap, she found me!"
The funny thing was, I went down there to cheer her up (she's missing her family and friends up north) but really it seemed more like I was the biggest beneficiary of the trip. They treated me like royalty, took me to all the best spots, fed me like I hadn't eaten in years (and now I shouldn't eat for years!) and made me feel so incredibly welcome. In the end, I felt like it was a sublime Mommy-getaway for me...that wasn't s'posed to be the way it works!
The only downside was having to say goodbye. Sadly, the old cliche is true: You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone. Sean and I never realized how incredibly lucky we were to have such wonderful friends as our neighbors until they moved away. Hopefully some day they'll move back up here and we'll be able to pick right up where we left off. Until then, I think there may have to be some more surprise visits. ;-)
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