My family once tricked me that we were fulfilling my lifelong dream of going to China when we really went to Newport, Rhode Island to visit my mother's lifelong friend and her husband and kids

I am now a 25 y/o M. When I was a 14 y/o M, my family told me that my birthday present would be China a place I have always wanted to travel to, but yet they surprised me by tricking me and took me to Newport, Rhode Island to visit my mother's lifelong friend and her husband and kids. Is that a bizaare story or what?