So for my mom’s 50th Birthday, i decided to surprise her with a weekend getaway. At first I wanted to throw her a party… but if I’m being honest, my girl isn’t a people person. Needless to say I nixed that idea. Then I thought maybe I should take her to the spa in Niagara Falls… but I found out the hotel is on the Canada side, and well we don’t have pass ports… none of us (I know I know! Please don’t judge us… we’re working on it lol). So something in me said… let’s just go to DC! We love DC. So I told her to take off Friday and Saturday from work and get to sleep early, because we were going to wake up EARLY. I remember after saying this she says “how early is early?” and I laughed for a couple of seconds and responded with… 3 AM… then I laughed some more. She wasn’t amused lol… o well.
So we wake up a 3AM. I give her something to wear and I am rushing her because she moves as slow as malaises in January. So we finally get out of the house sometime around four… we then shoot around the corner to my grandmas house to drop off my house keys to my cousin Thomas Jefferson.. yes thats his realy name (he had to take care of my baby Jade). When we pull in the drive way and my mom sees that I am dropping off the keys, she looks at me reluctantly and says “Lynne’ where are we going, and how long are we staying?” I laughed… and in typical Gravie fashion, I respond by saying “chill out and relax my girl,” and then we were off to pick up my sistercousin Amie.
So we roll up in front of Amie’s house, she hops in the car and then we were off. About an hour into the drive my mom asks “where are we going.” Amie and I look at each other and were like should we tell her… nahhhhhhh lol. After that Ange (my mom) didn’t ask where we were going again until we were in Baltimore… we were shocked! But at that point we were like, you made it this far… we’re not about to tell you now (honestly tho… she could wait another hour ya know!). As we pulled into downtown DC… and I said… “Amie should we tell her?”… she says “yeah might as well!” so we scream… DC! bahaha as if she didn’t already know.
We low key had a bomb ass time. Beautiful weather… sightseeing… a ruff top pool… wine… my mom took her first shot at 50! AND THE BAR TENDER FLIRTED WITH HER (my mom’s still got it!) plus good food. It was a successful birthday weekend I must say.
-Gravie