Birthday Surprise!!!

A Lovely Birthday Trip to St. Augustine

My husband is wonderful.  I’m lucky because he truly listens and remembers when I say I like something.  He is a master at making my gifts very personal, he knows me well.  He makes me feel like I am the only important person in the world, that I am something special.

He loves surprises, so of course that would be an element to his birthday gift to me.  To make an elaborate plan short, for the sake of this post, I’ll give you the abridged version:

He planned a wonderful trip to St. Augustine for my Birthday.  I got off work early the day before my birthday. I originally thought he may have something planned, but we did nothing when I got home, sat around and watched King of Queens.  I’m sure this was to add to the element of surprise, so sneaky he is.  He made up some excuse (lie) that his sister was sending us a gift, that he saw the mailman, and to go check to see if the package came.  I’m gullible so I believed him of course.  I went to the mailbox and he had placed a letter to me inviting me to a bed and breakfast in St. Augustine for a Birthday trip! I LOVE Bed and Breakfasts!

I came back inside and he had bought my favorite flavor cupcakes, from my favorite cupcake shop.  I blew out the candles, ate a few bites... and he informed me that I had 20 min to pack!

(of course I forgot my toothbrush, classic)

On to St. Augustine and a cute little B&B

  

Dinner reservations, the bread with pesto and balsamic was amazing, almost equally amazing were the light up menus.

..and on to the lights.  St. Augustine has Incredible lights everywhere.  I loved it so much.  We just walked around for an hour taking it all in.

  

 

  

On the way back we stopped at an Irish Pub.  Lucky for us it was open mic night.  We stayed for a bit and listened to the guys play, they were awesome.  A perfect end to the day!

 

 

 

The next day, after a lovely B&B breakfast, we did some more site seeing and toured the fort.  After walking around a bit another surprise, we were just about to head home when I bumped into my family.  Russ arranged for them to meet up with us early in St. Augustine, what a thoughtful husband.  They were originally supposed to drive from Virginia to our house in Jacksonville later that day, but they left at midnight so that they could come surprise me and share the St. Augustine experience.  It was wonderful to see them and walk around, then we ate Pizza, awesome pizza!  A great way to wrap up the trip!