If she works and you can afford it, go behind her back, talk to her boss and see if you can get her out of work for a Thursday & Friday. On Wednesday, send her a tropical flower arrangement that says come home and pack, we're going to XXXXX tomorrow, the X's being a tropical 4 day weekend destination. My wife enjoyed this (although I was amused watching her try to speed pack, which is basically an impossiblity for her) but she stayed up all night, made it and the limo picked us up early Thursday morning where she slept on the ride to the airport and then on the plane. We just went to Sandals in the Bahamas (reasonably short non-stop destination for us to maximize the time at resort as opposed to the travel aspect of it.) Just a thought. S-