Off to California...Blaine loved meeting his "namesake"
Nothing to do with the house but I never want to forget this trip so I am adding it to my Coffee Table Book!!
Zan and I wanted to get away. The guilt hit us that Blaine was old enough to appreciate meeting the couple he is named after...Nicole and Mickey Blaine. So guess what...our romantic week turned into upside down Rollercoasters!!!
We decided to surprise Blaine with the trip(before you feel sorry for Q, he went to Norway last year without Blaine, and Chance{he's the "third"}) we dragged Blaine all the way to the airport, seated Zan on the plane and he never realized he was going on a trip! After we told him to sit, we showed him a packet with Disney, Universal and the beach...he could barely breathe!! He was so excited..we then told him that he would be seeing "the Blaine's".
In flight, I was shocked that when he told the flight attendant that we tricked him, the flight attendant asked what he was going to do and all he said was that he was gonna see Nicole and Mickey Blaine!! What about Disney and Universal?? I should have left him with the Blaine's to bond and had my "romantic weekend"...what was I thinking???
Anyway, The Blaine's are sooo much fun!! They are like us and enjoy crazy people!! We love them!! We had not seen them in about three years so we had to reunite with a BANG!
In flight, we bribed Blaine and trained him well so he could make 50.00 to "blow" on junk!! We told him that we were gonna surprise the Blaine's by him knocking on the door and pretending to be Mickey's long lost son. He had to pretend he was doing a report and had snuck away to meet his true father!
We arrived at 8:30 AM for our surprise, we were rehearsing one last time and darn it! The Blaine's pulled out of the driveway!! We went after them! They went to Starbucks so the plan had to change, we rehearsed with Blaine again, he was to approach Mickey and say ask if he was Mickey and that he was his father! As we were about to send Blaine into Starbucks, Mickey came back out(it was a long line and Tegan had gymnastics) so we took off following them again!
He dropped off Nicole and Tegan and took off again, we knew he must be desperate for his Starbucks! We follow him. By now, I say to Zan that he totally suspects he is being followed, Zan believes that he is clueless! Mickey tricks us by pulling into a closed down Taco Bell and of coarse we pull in so he speeds away! We loose him at this point but as we are driving, we notice a Starbucks...we pull in to see if we are lucky enough to find him and he is there!!! The poor guy was hiding out calling his wife with this horrific story that a family in a big Cadillac are following him all over LA!!! He sees us and takes off down a back alley blowing dust in the wind.
We figure we have lost them but Blaine remembers how to get back to the gymnastics place. We can barely breathe from laughing and worrying that we have scared the daylights out of our friend( we did not have their numbers). We pull into the gymnastics and there he is, on the phone! He flips, stares and then walks past our car recording the license plate! Blaine is so nervous that the police are going to arrest him but we threaten his 50.00!!
Blaine gets out of the car, he walks over to Mickey. He says, you look like my Daddy! Nicole is on the phone and is hearing all of this so she starts walking out as Mickey is asking who and where is the mother! Blaine says you met my mom eight years ago!! Mickey was repeating, "who is your mom?" I decide that we have tortured the poor guy enough so I step out of the car ( he stares at me wondering about eight years ago) then it hits him and he screams to Nicole(still on phone panicking)...It's the FRANC'S!!!!!
Blaine did awesome and we all cracked up all day!! It was the best joke ever and Blaine loved being a part of it!!!
He fell in love with them and even said he would visit a couple of weeks in the summer!!!
Nicole gave birth to Finnley Blaine two days after we left! She was overdue so it was not our fault in any way!! Even though I am sure we put a big scare in her that she thought she had a seven year old stepson arrive overnight!!!
