How I told the kids about our trip to Thailand 2010.
Devin and Kiara didn’t know about the trip to Phuket, so Tarryn and I decided that the Sun City weekend would be a good time to tell them. I didn’t want to just come out and tell them, so Tarryn got her friend at work to make 3 lots of vouchers for the kids, the 1st was for a dinner of their choice, the 2nd for a massage and the final one said all vouchers are only available from the 25th August to 5th Sept and in small writing, it said in Phuket J.
After breakfast the first morning at Sun City, I gave them each their first clue and had hidden 2 other clues each to get them to their voucher. Kiara got one that said, “you are the ____ of my life” and she had to hunt outside for a light to get to her next clue. Devin’s first one was “at the 3rd rock from the sun”, you get the idea.
On the second day they had a group photo treasure hunt between the chalet and the Valley of Waves. I gave them a list of about 25 things that they had to take photos of, like a sign that says “mystery”, a bowling ball, a crocodile etc.
On the last day they decided they wanted another photo hunt, so I arranged one at the Sun City pool. The waiter’s name was Peter, and the barman there had a gold tooth, I had both those in the list of 25 things, but they went off and asked random people in the Sun City hotel if they had a gold tooth, found one who agreed to be photographed. They were very enterprising and got all 25 photos.
Their last clue was that their prize was with the person who performed ‘the part-time job that Tarryn aspired to when she was in high school’. They were horrified that they had to go to get the prize from the lifeguard on duty! He gave them the envelope with the final vouchers, and they were both over the moon with excitement. They both said it was a lovely way to find out and that the timing was perfect. Tarryn got to guess a number between 200 and 900 and that number was subtracted from 1500 to give her a cash prize and make her feel like she was part of it too.
I had great fun sharing the news of the trip this way.
