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| Flying through the trees with the greatest of ease. |
Hello Lovelies!
As you may know, the boy and I have been together for the better part of 12 years (mostly on, a
little off ;-), since we were in high school together. For the past several
months, I have been on him, throwing in some not so subtle comments about
getting engaged. I went to a networking event a couple of months ago and
one of the sponsors owns a ziplining company in the Hocking Hills. I brought
some info home about it, talked about how fun it would be to go ziplining, and
that was pretty much it.
A couple weeks later, he told me that we were going to hang out with his
sister's family down in Athens. I got excited because I love her 2 little boys,
and the boy and I got on the road at around 8 am and he kept pestering me to eat
breakfast on the way. I kept saying "Let's just stop at Sonic, it's on the
way and that's really the only time we ever eat it!"
Well before we got to the Sonic, he pulled off on this tiny road and there was
a little sign advertising a ziplining course. I was confused and asked if we
were going ziplining and he said yes and then I asked if the kids were coming
too...because quite frankly the thought of a 1 and 2 year old in the air above
the trees made me QUITE nervous. He just laughed and said he saw how much I
wanted to try ziplining, so he decided to surprise me. Ummm, cutest thing ever,
no?
So we get all geared up and one of the tour guides asked him to hang back,
saying that Danny forgot to sign some paperwork (I found out later that they were getting some last minute deets in place). I tried to hang back and wait
for him, but the other tour guide scooted me along and said that they would
catch up to us. So we went through the first half of the course and had a
blast!
At the midway point, the line is set up in such a way that you can't see the
next landing, and they have a photographer there take everyone's picture as they
come across. The tour guide told Danny to go first, and then the other groups
to go after, leaving me for last. I started to suspect something was up,
because until that point, all the people who were together in a group went
across consecutively.
Here I come, flying down the zipline and there he is at the landing, on one
knee with a ring box. Of course I start crying and he tells me to take off my
gloves so that he can put the ring on and everyone else in the group does the
collective "Aaawwwwww.” The photographer took several more pictures of us,
and then we finished the rest of the course. I was kinda bummed because I had
to put the glove back on over my gorgeous ring. The proposal was perfect. I was
hot and wearing a harness and a helmet, but it was so sweet and romantic and
different. I mean, really, he proposed to me in a tree…which I think says a lot
about how our lives together will be :-D (It's still funny to call him my fiancee because a) He's been my boyfriend for so long and b) We both pronounce it "fee-yawn-say" in our old man Cajun voices and giggle a little each time.)
When we got back to the building, everyone who worked there asked about the proposal and to see the ring. Apparently they all knew about it and had discussed it at their staff meeting earlier in the week. In all, people at Danny's job knew because they helped him plan it, his sister's family knew because they had to be in on the cover-story, my mom, stepdad, one of my sisters and a few of my friends knew about the ring but not the engagement plan and all the people working at the ziplining course were in on it too. Well played, feeyawnsay, well played...
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| What the...?? |
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| Aaaand let the waterworks begin... |
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| Oh, this is happening right now, huh? |
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| The happy couple |
