Get Out the Wool!

I'm not an easy person to surprise. While I do have a tendency to be gullible, my sense that "something" is going on makes it difficult to surprise me with anything. I'm not saying I have a sixth sense, but I figure things out. It's my personality to always want to know what's going on (we can analyze that later) and that, coupled with being incredibly observant and slightly intuitive, the wool is not easily pulled over my eyes. (wool is so scratchy, who would want that over their eyes anyway?)

But today, I stand corrected, because yesterday I got what is perhaps the surprise of my life, and an amazing and timely surprise it was!

It was like any other Sunday since Nicole and I moved down here... we got up, had breakfast and Nicole went to the school to study for a few hours (she had a study group from 10 to noon...or so I thought!) while I went outside to play in the dirt and dig up rocks (a rather involved project that will undoubtedly show up in this blog, oy) and I had a date to skype with Angie at 11:30. Dusting off my dirty shorts, I head inside around 11:25 to set up the computer and I hear the door downstairs. Thinking "Nicole's home early, that's strange," I walk to the upstairs landing to greet her as she's coming up the stairs when I notice that she's not alone. My first instinct is to back away - I'm not dressed for company! Dirty and sweaty wearing boardshorts. a t-shirt, and a bucket hat, I'm slightly annoyed that she brought someone home unannounced!

Then it was as if my eyes were looking through a camera, zooming in and out, trying to adjust to see if what I was seeing was actually the case - holy guacamole, that's Angie walking up my stairs!!!! Nicole and Angie both walk up the stairs with sh*t eating grins on their face, like they just got away with something huge and in my surprise, I just laugh as the tears well up in my eyes. It was just two days prior that I asked Nicole what she thought about me flying Angie down here for a visit because it would do us both a world of good. At the time Nicole calmly said she had something planned for us the weekend I wanted to fly Angie out, but she could see if she could move it around and that she'd let me know on Sunday. Determined to get out of her what she was planning for the random October weekend, I fired questions at her from every angle, but she wouldn't budge. "Sunday," she said. "I'll let you know on Sunday."

Never in a million years did I think that was why I would find out on Sunday!

It was exactly what I needed and the best surprise I could have ever imagined. And I gotta say, I'm impressed, ladies. Well done. :-) I love you both!