I've managed to squeeze our budget to the max and broke down to do my part to help the economy and got the wifey a new 2009 Mazda for Christmas. She has been driving around a beat up (thanks to two recent accidents) 1988Toyota with no air or heat. I fell she deserves it.

Now I'm stumped as to how to present it to her.

My original option was to just let her open the one very last gift from me on Christmas day which would be a blindfold and lead her outside and then take the blindfold off with her facing me, do my little "spiel" and then turn her around and let her see it.

The second option which I'm leaning a little towards is giving it to her a little before Christmas while the dealership is still open. Blindfold her at home, have some friends follow us to the dealership, do the little "Merry Christmas and I hope you like your 2009 Mazda" bit and present it to her with all of the Mazda team there too. They would give her the official briefing of the car as well and then take the sticker off of it.

I dunno. Either way she has absolutely no clue that this is in the works. She said someday she would be happy just getting a 1990's something or another, let alone new. I'll let you guys decide! Thanks in advance!