The Story
I had a feeling he was going to ask soon. One night he said to me, "how about two friday's from now we go to TGIFriday's
for dinner and then go to a movie or something?" Well he never planned that far in advance, nor was he ever
so specific about where we were going. So I thought that this would be the night he proposed. Nope, we had a
lovely dinner and saw a good movie, but no questions about spending the rest of our lives together were asked.
The week after that "date" was my birthday. July 2, 1999. We were down visiting my parents for my birthday and the
fourth of July. My whole family told him he better not let midnight pass that night without a ring. They were just kidding
of course, but he was very quiet. He bought me flowers and gave me my gifts and my mom had dinner. But nothing yet. Finally
around 7 that night he said, "do you want to go see Christi at work?" So off we went to Vineland to visit my best friend
at work. On the way home he turned off from my road and headed towards Gandy's Beach, which is right down the road from my parent's house
and also my favorite place on earth. He took a wrong turn and then got turned around and finally we arrived. I was sleeping
in the passenger seat and didn't know where we were until he woke me up. "Let's go take a walk," he said. So we dodged a billion bugs and
walked on the beach a little bit. To take a line from Snoopy, "It was a dark and stormy night." Lightning was striking pretty consistantly
in the distance and bugs were swarming our heads. He stopped me and faced me and said all these beautiful things about
how the first night he slept with his arms around me he know that he couldn't live without me anymore and a whole bunch of other
things, and finally after a five minute speech he said, with tears in his eyes, "and I guess there's only one thing left to say," he got down on his knee
and said, "will you marry me?" I always imagined that when I was proposed to that I would make some funny comment like, "Umm, let
me think about it." But all I could do was whisper "yes." He took the ring out of the box and DROPPED it in the sand.
After we picked all the dirt out of it he placed on my finger and we ran as fast as we could back to the
truck before we were either struck by lightning or carried away by bugs. It was one of the happiest days of my life
and has only gotten happier since. I have truly found my soul mate. |
Our Engagement Party
