#49 - Travel to surprise someone (42/101).

Last weekend my grandma and aunt visited my parents new house for the first time in Richmond. It had been my grandmothers birthday the week before and when I spoke to her on her birthday, she told me how excited she was for me to come and see her with my parents. I had to tell her that I wasn't coming because at that point, I had no plans to go and visit. But her comment got stuck in my head and I began to research flight costs to see if it would even be an option to visit for the weekend. Through my research, I found out that the flight costs were lower than I thought they would be so I started to think through the idea of surprising my parents, grandma and aunt on their visit. I decided to pull the plug and booked flights for a quick trip. 

The next step was trying to figure out how to find my family once I landed. With some healthy sleuthing, my sister helped me figure out that they were seeing a movie and found out which movie and what theater. When I got to the theater, I went to find out what time the movie would let out and played some arcade games while I waited. When I saw a couple of people begin to leave their theater, I found a bench to sit on and waited. I heard my family before I saw them and as they rounded the corner, I heard shrieks and small huge smiles. It was so much fun surprising my family! 

We went to lunch, relaxed at my parent's new house, ate some delicious food and I helped my parents clean out some of the rooms at our old house while I was home. It was such a nice treat to see my parents, grandma and aunt and made me happy knowing I had made the right decision to surprise everyone. I look forward to more surprises in the future, the only thing that would have made it better would have been if my sister could have joined as well!