Back in April Apple came out with a new device called the iPad. If you are not familiar with it you can check out their webpage about it here. It is basically a large iPod touch or iPhone except much more useful because of the larger screen. Well being the tech geek I am, I of course was very excited about the iPad. I had to curb most of my enthusiasm since it is a pretty expensive device and we couldn’t really afford buying another luxury tech item. Well little did I know that my wonderful wife was planning on buying me one for Father’s Day/birthday this year.

I had been sick for a few days and was stuck in bed, so this finally gave Karen the time she needed to get to the Apple store to pick up her surprise gift. She arrived there to find they were all sold out. She didn’t have any idea how quickly the iPads were selling out and didn’t think to call the store first. She was quite frustrated that Apple’s website said nothing about the iPads being sold out. While in the store she signed up for some service that was suppose to email her when an iPad was available for purchase. Well the guy at the store called the house instead and left a couple of messages for her. Being sick I never heard the phone ring but later heard the messages and of course ruined her surprise.

Well it didn’t all turn out bad. Me, being the geek I am, follow the tech news quite closely and knew that the Best Buy stores also sold the iPad. Yay! So we looked on their website and found one store in our area that had the exact model she wanted to buy. We made the quick jaunt down to the store, with Karen speed driving all the way, and was able to pick up the iPad before our trip.

Needless to say, Karen is a very thoughtful and loving wife who treats her husband way too good.

Thank you for such a great gift babe!

Oh and I was able to type this post using the iPad and the onscreen keyboard. With a little getting use to, it works very well.

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