Mallory found out her address, I found out if she had to work or not and asked my Gramma if she would keep the kids. The reason I did not take the kids is quite simple. It was a long drive and we were leaving Wednesday morning and coming back Thursday morning..so needless to say it was way too rushed of a trip to take the kids. You see, we found this out even more so when, what we thought was a 7-8 hour drive turned out to be a 9 1/2 hour drive. WOW!!!
Our butts, Our backs, Our eyes, Our arms..all sore from taking such a long trip...But you will hear no complaints, b/c the look on Amber's face when we opened her bedroom door made everything more than worth it!
Let me explain what happened. We should have been in Lethbridge about 7 pm (after leaving at about 9:45 AM), however...we thought our road said "detour" so we followed the detour...turns out it wasn't OUR road that detoured but one that connects to our road. So we took the scenic route and arrived in Lethbridge about 8 pm. I had map-quested her address and the directions took exactly to her house..no problems..well one problem, she wasn't home!!!
So we went and found a hotel room, called everyone and their dog trying to find out her friend's cell phone number and decided to go back to her house and check ( I had told her roomates to call me if she got home, but I wasn't sure they had long distance). Sure enough I saw her just going into her bedroom. we go up to the door and my cell rings (her roomates telling me she is home)..we had perfect timing. We walked into her room without knocking and yelled SURPRISE!!! I wish I would have had a camera b/c that moment was so precious. She was so excited to see us.
Here are some pics of all of us hanging out at the hotel room!
Amber, leaning against the wall while sitting on the bed (shortly before she almost fell through--not realizing that the bed was a quite a distance away from the wall! haha)
Dad, Amber and Mallory
Amber and I. I don't think that smile left her face the whole evening. We were so happy to have made her so happy.
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