well howdy partners welcome to the pattersons it feels a bit weird saying that without monica
and there's a very good reason for that monica is currently at the gym
so i'm taking this opportunity to film we have been in florida for a couple of weeks now and
as much as we're loving it and i know monica's really enjoying it she's feeling very homesick
i am flying her mother joni out tomorrow morning to surprise her
i actually booked her flight when we were sat by the pool the other day and monica
was directly in front of me i've got to whisper i just booked her mum's flight to surprise her
that was a bit risky a lot has happened since i booked that flight we intended for it to be
a complete surprise but liz monica's sister accidentally gave away that journey's flying
to florida so i had to get a little bit creative i told monica in the car yesterday that joni is
coming to florida but i told her it's going to be next monday not this coming monday which is
in about 10 hours time tomorrow morning she's arriving because liz on facetime just said that
she's coming on monday she didn't specify which monday so as you'll see in the little upcoming
clip i told monica that Joni was coming on the 13th and i made a plan with monica to basically
reverse the surprise back onto Joni well hello there my love hello on facetime yesterday
liz accidentally broke the news to you
she is coming next monday and she's flying back with us on the 22nd no way is she really yes
she's coming she's coming next monday and she's staying for nine days and we're all flying back
together on the 22nd we have the same flight back my gosh is that why you turned off your location
oh my gosh i feel so bad it was ruined should we plan something to surprise her like at the airport
or something yeah i could hide in the trunk or something oh my god that's such a good idea monica
fully believes that she is coming next week she has absolutely zero idea whatsoever she's
coming tomorrow so the surprise is still on and i'll catch you guys in the morning
so we have an hour and 47 minutes to go unfortunately i should have planned for
this a little bit better and don't worry i have autopilot on joni is arriving 20 minutes early
and i was due to get there about 20 minutes after she arrived so that we'd
arrive at about the same time i should have arrived a little bit earlier with
you know her kind of getting off the plane and going through security you know that kind of stuff
now that she's around 20 minutes early she's gonna be sat waiting for a while and i feel
really really bad about it i've never seen a plane take off early before it was meant to take off at
six in the morning and it took off at 5 50 am when has a plane ever taken off early before
i'm here i'm just gonna pull up right over here her flight arrived like 20 minutes ago
so she should be just about to get out calling mom-in-law your call has been forwarded to an
automated voice messaging system see i'm nervous because joni has no idea how to navigate airports
so hopefully she can find me okay oh there she is hi darling we're 45 minutes down we've got
about an hour to go or so we were just thinking why don't we ask monica to meet us somewhere on
the property so like i can be like hey Mon it's absolutely gorgeous weather this morning and it's
due to be cloudy later so why don't i meet you by the pool and you can be like sunbathing in
the cabana next to us or something i'll go up to the room and pick her up and then not right away
though you gotta wait a couple of minutes so you want to go down by the pool for a little while
yeah monica always goes in the second cabana so how about if you go in the third one and like draw
the curtains and then like when she sat there i'd be like oh that looks like your mum no i'll go yes
okay we're gonna do that so we're going to wait by the pool and uh surprise her there
monica has been texting me non-stop i told her that i was meeting a realtor at a coffee shop
so i just sent her a voice message all about that and i think i was pretty convincing right
i was convinced yeah yeah thank you okay we're here let's take you to the pool this is so
weird that you're here at our apartment we're parting ways she's gonna go and get changed
and i'm gonna wait half an hour and then i'll bring monica down alright so the second one?
the second one yeah the second one love you okay Joni has been dropped off so both of the other
cabanas have people stuff in it we don't want to move their stuff so what we're going to do is the
cabana that monica always goes in joni's going to be there so when monica goes around to go
inside joni's going to pull the curtain and you know monica will open it and see her mum's there
what i'm going to do now is i think it looks a bit suspicious if i'm filming the whole time
so i'm going to go back i'm going to do some work for like 20 minutes or so
obviously joni's going to be happy sunbathing i think i'll make it look as less suspicious
as possible you know as if i'm just here alone and then after like 20 minutes half an hour i'll
be like look it's gorgeous weather now it's due to get a bit worse by 1 pm so how about we go
down to the pool and then i'll secretly film when we're walking to the pool let's see how this goes
oh someone's there you want to go to the third one instead
i can't believe you you threw me off you know
and then when you got back i was like oh she's definitely outside of the door but
then you started sitting down playing we did that i was like this is weird i'm sweating
i want to go in the water but I couldn't she's here in florida you guys are crazy did you have any idea?
did but i got thrown off a few times Joni's first time seeing our apartment now are you carrying me
uh yes honey are you actually kidding me right now are they kidding me
i actually really can't deal you look so beautiful today
you just look so naturally gorgeous how happy are you i'm so happy scale of one to ten? a million... a million!