BOOM, mission accomplished! I've finally surprised someone to the point of utter, speechless shock! Lindsey was STUNNED, and when I walked into that Boston Pizza it looked like she had seen a ghost (in a good way... if you can think of such a look haha). Amazing!
So it was on September 20th that I fully decided to attend a wedding and surprise my girlfriend in the same weekend. I can't believe I kept this a secret (with the exception of telling Josh, my cousin, the bride-to-be, and my soccer team) for a whole MONTH. Usually I crack under the suspense and start to laugh when I'm confronted... but this time was different. I conspired with Josh on how to surprise Lindsey a couple days before I flew out. We had a couple good ideas; one included me putting my phone in a box, starting a video of myself putting it in the box, and having her open it to a note that said "keep it rolling." I thought that would have been epic! But... my plane ended up being delayed and therefore we were delayed in getting to Boston Pizza in time to carry out an epic surprise. Josh had told Lindsey and Kaitlyn to meet him there because his parents had given him an almost expired gift card. Brilliant! I waited (as you can see in the video) for Josh to go in first and then I casually walked in and up to their table a few minutes after. We did end up paying for the pizza because they technically were offered a free dinner. Anyways, we went back to the girl's apartment and played Settlers. Fun times, just like in the summer. The next day I hung out at Trinity and White Rock with Lindsey before heading down to Bellingham, WA with my cousin for the Bode wedding/reunion.
At the wedding I surprised some people too. I actually was surprised myself at the amount of classmates that showed up! It was nice to see half of the first term 10-room present, and overall there was approximately 13 of us Bodenseehofers altogether. Congratulations to the newly weds, Owen and Lorraine!
I headed back up to Langley later in the night and actually caught the tail end of a Holsby reunion! And when I got there I heard of another engagement... unreal! Congrats Priebe and Stine! I can't believe it's that time in my life already where a lot of friends are getting hitched. This month I've had 2 weddings already and have one more this weekend. That's 3 in 3 straight weekends! Ridiculously tiring yet super fun (blog to come). My pockets are dented and hurtin', but I'm loving being Wedding Manny.
I'm also exhausted... I don't recommend traveling all weekend, playing the full 90 minutes in a soccer game right after getting off a plane, writing two papers, and studying for/having two exams in one week.
PEACE... I need some.
