Need help!! Airport Meeting!

[carlyh]

Picking my SO who is a male up from the airport in a couple weeks and I wanted to do something special but I feel as though he's not the type of guy to want flowers (plus he's staying at my place for 2 weeks so they will just end up being my flowers ) and balloons or a sign seem a little cheezy, we aren't exactly the most romantic couple. Does anyone have any ideas of something special that isn't too much of a hollywood film type surprise. Maybe I'm putting too much thought into this...

[Amelia]

whenever i go to see my SO or he comes to me i always have his favourite boost juice or he has mine. One time he even had a happy meal for me because i am such a child i love those little happy meal toys. I guess its not much but its the thought that counts plus i know he has gone to the effort to get me something that id like after a boring flight.

So now it is tradition and we do it all the time

[Verojoon]

To expand on Amelia's ideas, you could bake for him or have a packed sandwich or something... I know because I'm too cheap to pay for airplane food, I'm usually starving when I get off the plane.. when I land in Dallas, we just go straight to a restaurant usually, but in Ottawa, there is really nothing very close to the airport... plus it's personal, shows you were thinking about him and is not cheesy or embarrassing!

[carlyh]

Both great ideas thanks so much! I totally didn't think of food and my SO gets in at 730pm so I'm sure he will be hungry and love a little snack and I know he loves smoothies and baking something is a great idea even more personal. He always jokes and tells me to get him a pie (we make fun of how husbands and wives can be in the south: "get me a pie woman!") so maybe I'll do that for him. He'd probably find it hilarious! THANKS SO MUCH!!!

[Verojoon]

Pie sounds great! lol I think my bf should greet me with pie when I next fly out there!!

[Amelia]

oh a pie i wish my bf would bake a pie but knowing him he would get his mum to maybe i should hint it at him see what he thinks

[carlyh]

haha I have no idea how to bake a pie, enlisting help from my mom next weekend to learn. I say everyone deserves a good airport meeting pie

[kteire]

I always used to surprise my SO with food. I baked a pie the first time he visited, made him a cheesecake when I visited him. And then the next time he was over, I had bought us fresh lobsters (they were on sale for $5 a pound! Woo!) and our next visit, I showed up a day earlier than he thought I'd be there, got into his flat, and made him lasagna. And then when we saw each other more regularly, I'd always have cookies or a new kind of beer or something.

I don't know how to do surprises that don't involve food apparently!!