This year for our 5th Anniversary I wanted to surprise Jaime with a trip to Mexico! I have a friend that is a travel agent, so after talking to her and explaining all of the things that I was wanting to do, she came up with a wonderful place... Riviera Maya, Mexico!! We chose a resort, looks pretty wonderful too I might add, the flight schedule and the days... thought I had everything covered for an awesome surprise... then I remembered that we now have to have a US passport to travel outside the United States! So I thought how I could still pull off the surprise, without him knowing, and get both of our passports. Well after talking to several people with Homeland Security, I realized there was just no way to do it, because he was to be the one to sign for his passport in front of an official! Big Bummer!! Ok.. not to panic.. I still wanted to make this a very memorable surprise for him and tell him in a creative way.
I decided to do a scavenger hunt, relationship style! I came up with a pretty cute, but short (just because I thought it was a cute idea, didn't mean Jaime was going to be all into it!) scavenger hunt with clues that related to us. The first clue led him to the first place we met, the second to the first place he told me he loved me and the third and final was to the Church we got married in. Thank goodness for him... he got them all right!! On the Church door was a note addressed to him telling him how much he means to me and how excited I was going to be enjoying this years anniversary with him. At the end of the note, it told him where we would be going and a few of the details. Everything rhymed and was worded in a way that only he would understand... little things that we say or have said to each other. I was very proud of myself for coming up with such a cleaver idea! Oh ya... he was totally excited!! Oh course the first thing he asked me was, "How much did it cost and how are we going to pay for it?" So when I told him that I had been saving money here and there and it was already paid for, he was even more excited!
We will be going June 8-12... not too long, but just long enough! I am so excited and can't wait! What a wonderful way for us to re-connect with one another! So.. now we are waiting on our passports to arrive to us in the mail, of course I have started a major diet and tanning... and I'm doing a little shopping for our "beach attire" as well :)
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ReplyDeleteThanks again for letting Sarah play all day. I had a meeting in Stillwater and got a migraine on the way there... so Dennis was flying solo for the most part. It was a huge help to both of us!