Long, long ago (ok, it was only last summer) I decided that it would be a great idea to make a long-term, on-going bet. I'll leave out the gory details, but the bottom line is that RW and I ended up $320 poorer, and in a coincidence of epic proportions, Karen & Nathan ended up $320 richer. Funny how that worked.
Karen, ever the good friend, told me that she was giving it all back to me.
ME: "Of course not! You won it. I'm not taking it back."
KAREN: "Fine. We'll use it for our birthday dinner."
ME: "Ummm, OKAY! Great idea."
Karen's birthday is in July, and my birthday is in August, and both of these birthdays end in a "zero", so this was the perfect year for something big. Something we shouldn't have to plan. Every so often, we bring it up to the guys... "Hey - what should we do for our birthdays?" There is always some half-hearted, general discussion on the part of the guys and then topic changes to something entirely more exciting, like car lifts and wrenches. Although - the one idea got both of them excited - 55 mph go-cart thingies. They thought that would be grand. We thought we'd end up dead.
Our grand outing is coming up this weekend, and as we've yet to get a plan nailed down, we brought it up to our husbands again last night. RW caught on that we girls really didn't want to plan it, and told us boldly "Not to worry about it. We'll take care of it." Nathan may have been looking at him like "Dude - keep your mouth shut!"
RW went on to ask us what we wanted to do:
RW: "What I mean is - what's the THEME?"
US: "What do you mean, theme?"
RW: "Well, like "Adventure" or "Suspense".
Karen and I both looked at each other and asked at the same time:
US: "What would be a 'Suspense' theme?"
We quickly made up our minds - suspense it is. We can admit it, we're curious. But we have no doubt that the boys will indeed, leave us in suspense until Saturday afternoon. Beyond that is anyone's guess. And if anyone has any suggestions for our little activity, be sure to leave it in the comments. I promise to pass it along.
