Unfortunately we don't have that kind of money to throw away on a hotel room for one night. Her birthday was on a Wednesday, she kept saying "I can't wait to go to the hotel this weekend." Kevin and I would say "Oh honey, I don't know if we'll be able to go or not because it costs a lot of money. Maybe we could just do a pizza and movie night" She asked almost everyday and we gave her the same line.
We wanted to surprise her, so we had Mary get us a room at a hotel she uses for work, because she can get them for cheap, it's a decent hotel and they have a pool and hot tub, so it's a win-win. We kept blowing it off when she'd ask what we were going to do. Friday afternoon she gets off the bus after school and says "Oh I can't wait to go to the hotel tomorrow night" I said "Oh honey, I don't think we're going. How about we have a pizza and movie night tonight?" She said "That sounds good" But I could see the disappointment in her face. So I told her we'd go out for pizza instead of making it at home and let her choose the pizza joint. She wanted to go to Pizza Ranch...perfect. There is one in Lakeville on our way to where the hotel was. We didn't say anything to the kids other than we were going out for pizza, we loaded them up in the car, I had packed our bags in the car while Addie and Stella napped and Paul and Amelia were at school. So they didn't know I had things with.
Everyone fell asleep in the car on the way to go eat "pizza", we pulled into the hotel parking lot and everyone started waking up and once they were awake we said "Surprise! We're staying at a hotel tonight to go swimming and we'll order pizza." We had arranged it with Mary to have her order the pizza and pick it up for us. We called her from inside the house before we left, so she'd know about how long it'd take for us to get there. Since she has the work connection at the hotel and a good work relationship with the manager, she arranged to have snacks and drinks put in our room before hand. So when we checked in and got up to our room, there was a Happy Birthday balloon on one of the beds. Pop and water in the mini fridge and different snacks. After we got into our room and settled, Kevin called to "order" the pizza. About 15 minutes later, there was a knock on our hotel room door and the kids sure where surprised when they opened the door and saw it was Grandpa and Grandma delivering the pizza! They just couldn't figure out how the pizza guys would know to have Grandpa and Grandma deliver the pizza. We haven't let them in on our little secret. The kids had a blast, we ate pizza, swam, pigged out on junk food and stayed at a hotel. What more could 4 little kids want? The next morning after we checked out and we stopped at Caribou, while I was inside ordering coffee for Kevin and me, the kids were all excited about how much fun it was and how they want to do it for all of their birthdays, etc. They were full of chatter the whole way home about how much fun it was. It was so fun to be able to surprise the kids and have a super cheap hotel stay!
Here is our baby girl as a newborn, just hours old!
And look at her now at 7 years old! Crazy how fast they grow up!
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