\nSurprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us!\u009d<\/p>\n
Its been few years that I have visited home so this year I thought about giving my parents and siblings a surprise of their life. I am working in New York, and my family is still in Washington DC. I know its not far but with a demanding job, I was not able to travel. I felt guilty about letting my parents down on all the festivals, birthdays and anniversaries. So, I asked few of my friends in Dc to help me in this.<\/p>\n
One of my friends owns an upscale restaurant in DC so I asked him to close it for a day but don’t make it look like that and invite my family for a dinner as an invitation to some party. He gathered few of our common friends and planned the whole thing I was only giving instructions while sitting in NYC.<\/p>\n
So on the day of arrival, I reached DC around noon and went directly to the restaurant and met with my friends. The plan was solid and we were ready to go with the bang. Around 6 pm my family entered the restaurant. My friends were already there with their counterparts.<\/p>\n
Everybody greeted each other then my younger brother asked for the occasion so they said its a surprise. And exactly at that moment I entered the room with a giant cake and shouted a Surprise! Sorry for not being there on the last few festivals and other events. But I am here now and will be here for every event.<\/p>\n
That day I saw so many faces with same emotion of love, longing, surprise, among my family and friends. That day I took the oath that I will be there no matter what because family is far more important and precious than anything else in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us!\u009d Its been few years that I have visited home so this year I thought about giving my parents and siblings a surprise of their life. I am working in New York, and my family is still in Washington DC. I know its not far but with a demanding job, I was not able to travel. I felt guilty about letting my parents down on all the festivals, birthdays and anniversaries. So, I asked few of my friends in Dc to help me in this. One of my friends owns an upscale restaurant in DC so I asked him to close it for a day but don’t make it look like that and invite my family for a dinner as an invitation to some party. He gathered few of our common friends and planned the whole thing I was only giving instructions while sitting in NYC. So on the day of arrival, I reached DC around noon and went directly to the restaurant and met with my friends. The plan was solid and we were ready to go with the bang. Around 6 pm my family entered the restaurant. My […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vagaries-of-bus-travel-in-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourbus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourbus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourbus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourbus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourbus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4165"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourbus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4384,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourbus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4165\/revisions\/4384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourbus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourbus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourbus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}