D. M. B.alloons

by Matty
(Cape Cod)

When I was dating my wife, before I had proposed she worked at a resort as a group co-ordinator. We had been dating long enough that I had a key to her apartment. At this time she was going through a particularly stressful time with work so I decided to surprise her. During the day, while she was at work, I went to her apartment and blew up a few bags of balloons to fill her apartment with.

About an hour before she came home I ordered a Hawaiian pizza (her favorite) and put it in her oven on warm. Then I drew her a hot bath with some candles and made a trail of rose petals from her front door to her oven, then to her bath. She is a Dave Matthews fanatic so I put her favorite Dave song on repeat and left a poem on her refrigerator directing her to the pizza and the bath. Then I went out to her back porch and just kind of hid out until she got home.

When she came home and saw everything I had set up she dropped to the floor in amazement. Not only did it provide a nice bit of pampering after a tough day of work but it was also very romantic. She was taken aback that anyone would go to that much trouble for her.