Pulled a fast one...
Posted on Montag, April 06, 2009 at 4:51 PM by rhukari@rolmail.net"title="Send email to Reka the site author">Reka
About two months ago, I called my brother-in-law. My sister was immediately suspicious, supposing we were scheming. No, we answered innocently, but we thought, devilishly, YES!
Matthäus is in his fourth year at an agritechnical high school here in South Tyrol. They are required to do an internship for two weeks this year. He asked us if he could do his in the States. We contacted his uncle (my BIL) who got him hooked up with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. I found him a team to practice soccer with, got him a ticket, and...didn't say a word to my mom or sister. So I drove him to the airport on Friday morning and he left for three weeks (Easter vacation plus two weeks of internship) with my family. On Friday afternoon Oregon time, he and my BIL walked into my sister's office to say hi. One of the girls told Carol there was someone to see her. She walked out, expecting a man bringing papers for her husband. Boy, was she surprised! And her DIL was there to film it all, so I get to see the look on her face!
In the meantime I had called my mom and told her that UPS contacted me to say the package I had ordered would arrive that afternoon. As it was kind of an important package, would she be home to take it in? She said she would be. At 1:47 am my time, she called me to tell me there was no package. She had gone down the street to the mailboxes, and saw UPS driving farther down beyond her house on her way back. (Wasn't that nice of Mr. UPS to match his schedule to mine? And I didn't even let him in on the plan!) Seeing no package on the doorstep, she was a bit confused. Just then, my BIL drove in and Matthäus walked around the corner. She said she was really and truly struck speechless. What fun!