Surprise! aka "knock, knock"

Greetings from St. Louis, MO. I've been silent on the blogosphere for a few days because there was a big surprise brewing, and I couldn't share the news here because my sibs are all on myspace.

My sister Courtney flew out to CO on Wednesday night, and she and I toured around Colorado all day Thursday, and I got to introduce her to a bunch of my friends too. (That was really cool, folks, so thanks for coming out to meet her!)

Early Friday morning she and I left my house and drove nearly 14 hours to St. Louis (arriving at 10pm STL time) at my parent's house. My parents were expecting Courtney to arrive on Saturday afternoon by plane and me on Sunday by car. When we pulled up to the house, I called my folks from my cell. My dad answered and I told him I had a joke for him.

me: knock, knock
dad: who's there
me: me!
dad: me, who?
me: no, no. you don't get it. let me try again. Knock, knock.
dad: who's there?
me: me! (massive laughter)
dad: are you drunk?
me: no, I'm not drunk. Let me try one more time (walking up to the front door).
me: Knock, knock (saying the words while knocking on the door)
dad: who's there (while opening the door)
me: SURPRISE! (my dad was still talking to me on the phone at this point while looking at me perplexed. He then got excited and continuted to talk to me on the phone even though I was standing in front of him. At this point, Courtney jumped out from behind a tree...and mass chaos and happiness followed.

It was a good surprise, I think. It took lots of explaining, but eventually everyone figured out that we were there early.

It is pretty cool because this is the first time in many years that my entire family (all my sibs) are togther in one place at one time. I will have to try to figure out how long it has been...I hadn't seen Courtney in 2.5 years, so it was longer ago than that when we were all together.

I'm going back to family time, now, but wanted to share the fun.