As you may recall, Darrell has sent me on a scavenger hunt or two for presents in the past. And, nerd that I am, I thoroughly enjoyed the scavenger hunts. Well, since I know that Darrell is as much of a nerd as I am, I decided to send him on a little scavenger hunt of his own. Except I wasn't nice enough to give him just word clues; instead, he had to solve Sudoku puzzles, pair the highlighted number in each row up with a letter in the alphabet, and then unscramble the letters to find the location of the next clue.
It was totally nerdy. But awesome. And to reward him for his efforts, I had a small gift certificate placed with each clue.
Harold's Photo because Darrell has always talked about buying a flash for his camera so that he'll be able to take better indoor shots (definitely important with a newborn), Barnes and Noble so we could buy our first pregnancy book (we went with What to Expect when You're Expecting), and Target because, well, Target is awesome and has everything you would ever need (baby on the way or not). For his final clue, the letters unscrambled to spell the word "pregnant", although it didn't take him solving the puzzle for all eight letters to figure out what the word was. This revelation was naturally followed by lots of jumping and hugging and general excitement (mostly on his end--I was still a little bit in a state of disbelief). And then because Darrell decided he wouldn't possibly be able to settle down and go to bed anytime soon he insisted we head out to Target and Barnes and Noble and redeem our gift cards (thank goodness for stores open until 10:00).
We were pretty disappointed in the gender-neutral clothing selection at Target, so we settled for getting a blanket instead--still just as cute, and still pretty weird to think in a mere five months we'll have a little baby to wrap in the blanket!
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