My girlfriend and I are forever trying to do things for each other to surprise one another. It has almost got to a childish point where it is more like one up manship than anything else, but when she pulled her latest stunt I didn’t mind at all! Last year I had surprised her by taking her skiing over Christmas, and we stayed in a perfect little log cabin for the week. It was a perfect weekend and she told me on the last night that she would better it within six months! We had a laugh about it at the time but I knew that she would go all out to try and do better than me!
Not surprisingly six months later she came to me with a cheeky little grin on her face. She had been secretly saving up her money and she had managed to book us flights to Brazil over my birthday! She had arranged for us to see a football match while we were there, and we would be staying in a four star hotel in Rio! I couldn’t believe she had managed to do this, and although I was obviously pleased, I was already thinking how on earth would I be able to better this!
I asked her how she had managed it and she told me that she had just had a look around online and found these really cheap flights to Brazil, and once they were paid for, everything else was relatively affordable! I couldn’t believe it but I wasn’t about to start complaining – I had always wanted to go to Brazil!

