I premise this post by saying that usually the Allinghams never get around to planning anything in advance and we have NEVER all been away on vacation together for a week.
Well this year for my Dad's 80th birthday (doesn't he look great?) we all decided to surprise him with a week long cruise to Mexico. He thought he was going with my oldest sister, Cynthia, and her husband Paul. There ended up being 17 of us all together. He had NO idea that we were on the ship with him until the first night at dinner. This video was taken right after my sister Cheryl and her husband entered the dining area to surprise him.
(We had walked up to the table and he didn't even notice we were there so I left Sidney next to my sister and hid off to the side and you can hear her crying in the video long before he even notices us!)
So then a little while later my sister Lianne came in with her family. I got so distracted that I forgot to video tape their entrance from the start but you can still see the surprise on his face.
Well this year for my Dad's 80th birthday (doesn't he look great?) we all decided to surprise him with a week long cruise to Mexico. He thought he was going with my oldest sister, Cynthia, and her husband Paul. There ended up being 17 of us all together. He had NO idea that we were on the ship with him until the first night at dinner. This video was taken right after my sister Cheryl and her husband entered the dining area to surprise him.
(We had walked up to the table and he didn't even notice we were there so I left Sidney next to my sister and hid off to the side and you can hear her crying in the video long before he even notices us!)
So then a little while later my sister Lianne came in with her family. I got so distracted that I forgot to video tape their entrance from the start but you can still see the surprise on his face.
And the grand finale: H &P (James parents) followed by Pat &Char and Linda (my Dad's good friends). What a great idea (Cheryl) it was to stagger it like this so that we could have so much fun watching him enjoy each entrance!!
Dad: "Dad were you suspious at all?"
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