The Andy Can't Keep a Secret To Save His Life Memorial Day Disney Trip - Finally UPDATED 6/27 by Melissa and Andy! About This Page:

[chezp]

Originally Posted by Staci Schwarz

That is it! I have absolutely freakin' had it!

I have lurked on these boards for over a year now and have had to witness the thoughtful gift baskets delivered to your room, the witty banter, the stinkin' gorgeous pictures you had taken of you at WDW (I especially love the ones you included in your PTR, Andy) and the way you two just enjoy each other's company so much.

Even though we have a family trip scheduled for September, I'm flippin' marching upstairs right now and telling my husband that he is taking me on a frickin' romantic trip to WDW complete with a picture session, romantic ADR's and fabulous stinkin'gifts.

I'll let you know how it goes

Really, what impresses me the most about the two of you is how happy you both look just to be with one another. I hope you have a really magical time.

I like your style! Be sure to report back on how successful that approach is!

[MattUGA]

I prefer this site so much better. Another site has an "evil clone" and that site takes pleasure in ragging on members and that includes me because my wife and I both posted there. Well I'm done with that place! Back home where I belong!

Andy, you and I are just rare breeds. Our wives should count their blessings daily for having us. ROFL Actually, you and Melissa sound a lot like me and Bethany. We're best friends too!

I can't wait to hear more. I'm thinking about a basket myself to be ordered this time!

[Brit_Invader]

So why did I call this “The Andy Can’t Keep a Secret to Save His Life” trip? Well, I have a very bad history with keeping secrets secret…well I guess more like surprises. I’m always the person who wants to open Christmas gifts the second they are wrapped. This is why we wait until December 23rd to wrap anything. I guess I’m a sucker for a void in a conversation, you know? There will be a few silent moments and before I know it I’ve spilled the beans. So what other surprises have I blown? Hmmm:

• The second part of our honeymoon – I was going to plan the last fours days of our honeymoon all by myself, and I did for the most part. We were going to leave the GF and go to Discovery Cove for the day, dolphin experience and all. Then it was off to Saint Augustine for a few days at the Our House Bed and Breakfast (bed and breakfast St. Augustine Florida Our House of St. Augustine Bed & Breakfast). It was going to be a great surprise, but a few moths before the wedding I gave in. Not to Melissa asking but to my own brain saying, TELL HER!
• The outside of the park day at Disney – So last summer I planned an extra day at Disney, an outside of the park day I called it. So I booked the room at POFQ and arrange a few surprises; Afternoon Tea at the Grand Floridian, La Nouba and then the California Grill for some amazing food. I even got the ADR so we could watch the fireworks from our table. It was perfectly planned, but I quickly realize that I wasn’t going to be able to hide the missing money for the room so I told Melissa about the extra day…but just the extra day, the other details leaked out slowly. La Nouba was leaked while at my brothers wedding, eating cake together at the table. Tea was blown when I was getting ready to parasail (Melissa’s surprise to me!!!) at the contemporary. The girl asked what we were doing next and I smiled and said, “We are having tea!” I could have said “No, it’s a surprise!” but again…I suck at keeping surprises. So tea and La Nouba was blown. I did however keep the California Grill a surprise, up until the process of elimination ruled everything else out while driving there.
• For our third wedding anniversary I bought tickets to see The Who in Atlanta on our actual anniversary, November 22. I was determined to keep this a secret. One night we were sitting at the Blue Ridge and the subject of our anniversary came up. Melissa started smiling really big and I asked her if she knew what I had planned? The smile got ever bigger and she admitted that she had found the tickets!! Now this one was not my fault. I guess I could have hidden them better?!?

I’m sure there are many more that I can’t remember. Little things like the Stitch pin I bought this morning. I get them every once in a while from Disney shopping and tell myself I’m just going to let them arrive, but I always tell her. I think I told her about our hospitality Darlington race weekend two years ago, couldn’t keep that one either. There are just too many!

So maybe one day I’ll be able to keep a secret, who knows…maybe I have something else up my sleeve? Maybe I’ll tell Melissa tonight over dinner during a pause in the conversation. Ahhhhh, it’s a never ending battle!

[MattUGA]

LOL okay I can't keep a secret either. I get too excited about telling her.

[mestitch]

Originally Posted by MattUGA

I prefer this site so much better. Another site has an "evil clone" and that site takes pleasure in ragging on members and that includes me because my wife and I both posted there. Well I'm done with that place! Back home where I belong!

Andy, you and I are just rare breeds. Our wives should count their blessings daily for having us. ROFL Actually, you and Melissa sound a lot like me and Bethany. We're best friends too!

I can't wait to hear more. I'm thinking about a basket myself to be ordered this time!

hang on now.... There's gotta be a reason you fellows do what you do.... I suppose it could be that us wives are just so great and you just love us so much
(j/k I know I would be LOST without Andy around.... I'm very thankful to have him as my hubby!)

[angiek1024]

My DH is the same way. He cracks me up because he will actually call me from the mall while Christmas shopping and say if I were going to get you this or that what size would I need to get. It must be a man thing!

[Colexis Mom]

I'm not one for secrets either Andy Don't feel bad

[chezp]

Don't worry Andy - you're not alone, I'm not that great with secrets either. :

[DopeyGirl]

I suck at secret keeping too. First I get that "I have to tell SOMEBODY!" feeling . . . then I get the guilty feeling like I really should just tell everyone instead.

I've already told everyone that there will be no baby surprises . . . I'm finding out what it is and telling everyone because I can't keep a secret.

That said . . . Mike wouldn't be able to keep a secret either. He's no good at it (Christmas is awful around here. I always know what I am getting at least a week before Christmas.) BUT I am also in charge of keeping track of money, so I would know when there was a chunk missing and would interrogate the crap out of him until he cracked..


And you guys are so stinkin' cute it makes me kinda want to smack Mike and ask him why we aren't so cute anymore.

[mestitch]

We really are bad... we both have to wait and buy Christmas presents for each other like two days before Christmas b/c as soon as they're wrapped and under the tree we are chomping at the bit to give them to each other... I'm the same way with birthday presents. Bascially all gift shopping in our house is last minute for a reason

[Staci Schwarz]

It worked!

I stomped up the stairs and point blank asked my husband why we couldn't be more like Andy and Melissa (to which he looked at me completely confused and asked, "Do I know them?")

After some clarification, he agreed to a grown ups only trip to Disney next spring! Yay!!

Thanks you two! I'll name that trip report "The Andy and Melissa wannabes trip" just so you'll get the credit you deserve.

Just like all of your TRs, I'm looking forward to this one. Only a few days left to go!

[Brit_Invader]

Originally Posted by Staci Schwarz

It worked!

I stomped up the stairs and point blank asked my husband why we couldn't be more like Andy and Melissa (to which he looked at me completely confused and asked, "Do I know them?")

After some clarification, he agreed to a grown ups only trip to Disney next spring! Yay!!

Thanks you two! I'll name that trip report "The Andy and Melissa wannabes trip" just so you'll get the credit you deserve.

Just like all of your TRs, I'm looking forward to this one. Only a few days left to go!

That is toooo funny! Congrats!

[emtpej]

Originally Posted by Brit_Invader

So maybe one day I’ll be able to keep a secret, who knows…maybe I have something else up my sleeve? Maybe I’ll tell Melissa tonight over dinner during a pause in the conversation. Ahhhhh, it’s a never ending battle!

We've been together 15+ years. It has always been hard to keep anything secret from my DW... she handles the money. I stopped trying to keep secrets a looong time ago!

[PrincessSharon]

Sorry you can't manage to keep a secret, Andy, but keep trying! Maybe you'll get better at it. And Melissa will keep getting fantastic surprises even if she knows about them ahead of time. It's win-win.

[MattUGA]

Ha ha ha. Well, mestitch, I guess us guys just treat our ladies that way because they are that special!!!