The Travel Trip

One of the most exciting and overall fun times I’ve had in my life was an overnight trip to Los Angles that my boyfriend of the time, Dan, surprised me with. I’m an actor and have been most of my life, having been bitten by the bug at an early age after appearing onstage as part of a grade school class project. It so happened that I was in rehearsal for a production of William Inge’s The Dark at the Top of the Stairs when my twenty-second birthday rolled around. My car’s timing belt had broken and my car was in the shop overnight so Dan had dropped me off at rehearsal and was going to pick me up after it was over. At the time I wasn’t even thinking about the next day being my birthday. Plus, I was going to be twenty-two, all the exciting birthdays were over and I would officially be old. Or so I thought.

However, Dan, being a true romantic had asked my roommate Jodie, who also happened to be my best friend, to pack an overnight travel bag for me that would include a nice dress to where to the theatre. He then had his friend Troy take him to pick me up and told me that his car had also broken down. We were both students at the time and car problems were a common occurrence. I didn’t think anything about it, other than it was unfortunate, and got in the car.

That’s when things got really strange. After I sat down in the car Dan blindfolded me. I didn’t resist, though I had no idea what was going on it felt like fun so I went with it. When the blindfold was finally removed I was sitting at a departure gate for Southwest Airlines. This was before September of 2001, by the way. Way before. At that moment Dan showed me the two tickets to Los Angeles and also two tickets for Les Miserables, which was playing in the city at the time. I was absolutely stunned and thrilled. We flew in with time to have a nice dinner before checking into a Los Angeles cheap hotel. We had a fabulous time that weekend and Dan’s friend Troy was there to pick us up again when he got home. However, I had to go straight from the airport to the theatre as the trip had been planned perfectly between them. That was one of the greatest birthday weekends and also one of my favorite trips to LA.

Posted on January 12th, 2010 by admin
Filed under: Arts & Culture, Travel