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[Replaced_Texan]

My mom is having a milestone birthday next week, and my family decided to throw her a birthday party. One of my sisters went crazy and I think that there have been wedding receptions with less planning involved. Come to think of it, my parents' wedding reception had less planning involved. (It was in a methadone clinic, they served fried chicken and cold duck, and no one knew that they’d be going to a wedding reception that day.)

Anyhow, because the party is on a weekday, my youngest sister didn't think she could make it from San Francisco, but as the party planning got more and more elaborate (last I heard, the windows in the house are going to be covered in red gauze to create some sort of opium den atmosphere and there's been talk of Cajun martinis), she realized it would suck if she couldn't make it.

So my sister is on the phone and on the internet right now making last minute travel arrangements to fly here from San Francisco either tonight or sometime tomorrow and she'll leave Wednesday morning. I didn't know she was coming until about ten minutes ago, and the information has totally made my day.

So my poll question is this: Have you ever traveled at the last minute or as a surprise for someone? Has anyone traveled at the last minute or as a surprise for you? Was the trip worth the secrecy/expense of last minute travel?

To answer my own poll, the day I got the Displaced Dog, he and I flew to Houston from where we’d been going to college without telling any but my mom that we were coming. I was a surprise, but the Displaced Dog got the bigger reception. No one knew that I was even thinking about getting him, and there is nothing cuter in the whole world than a ten week old puli puppy. It was totally worth it.