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(54,874 posts)On April 10th, my wife and I celebrate our 40th anniversary. We thought we'd try to get the family together for the occasion. My younger daughter--the one who took this picture--thought she'd pick out a place. We said, sure, go ahead. So, she did--her old high school hangout, which happens to be to Kona side of the Big Island of Hawa'i. This is not a budget undertaking, as you might imagine, so I started to look for affordable flights. She said, well, it would be nicer if my wife and I flew the whole way with them from Frankfurt instead of flying from Düsseldorf and Paris, as we usually do. I explained to her that what she was proposing for us was 3000 more expensive. But she doesn't take "no" for an answer, and just went ahead and bought us the tickets (she makes many multiples of what I do), and called it an anniversary present.
When she was 2 years old, a neighbor once called her "Madame 10,000 volts." She hasn't changed much.