Well on my way down to Helens I had set up a meeting with my girlfriends dad to have a drink and ask him if he thought I was worthy enough to have his daughter in marriage. After a few drinks he said it was ok. : )
So the drive down to Helens was a bit of a relief after that. I mean I only had to crush the pedals for 114 miles and climb something like 8,000 feet. That was nothing compared to the nervouses of asking her dad. The plan I had was to ask her if we got on the cruise in November to Mexico. I wasn't sure what port I was going to ask her or how, I just new it was then I was going to do it. After the ride that week I went down to the Shane company (plug) to look at rings. Thankfully some information I gathered from a mutual friend was that she wanted to pick out her own ring if we ever got married. That bit of info was 2 years old or so but I thought it would still be the case. I walked in not knowing what I was going to get or how much to spend. They were really helpful and I found the one I wanted and got out of there. The salesman was really nice but his laugh was something you would see on a Saturday night skit. It was bad and got higher in pitch the harder he laughed. I left the ring down there knowing I would get to excited and want to give it to her. It wasn't to hard after the first week. I thought about it alot and hoped that we got on the cruise because that would be perfect.
See the plan was to surprise my parents and Glenn and Dana (god parents) who were going for the anniversaries and Dana's birthday. I thought this would keep Lindsay's mind busy so she didn't expect it. I mean we were in Mexico and just bought a house together in August so I am sure it floated around in her mind but the more of a surprise the better. We finally got confirmed about 2 weeks after we purchased our air tickets. Now I knew I had to seal the deal. There was no backing out now. We almost slipped a couple times hanging out with the folks and it was hard to continue to lie to them about it but hey, it was for a good reason!
November 15th we get up at 4 am and head to the airport. The family was already down there and the night before I was getting text's from Ma and Pa and I tried to schedule them to show up at the port late so we could get through the port and onboard before they saw us. I was standing in line getting our luggage checked in and I turned around and there they were. I was like oh sh*t Linds there they are, what do we do. Linds was like we are going to see them anyways and they might notice us standing here so lets just go over there. The looks on there faces after they realized I was standing there for a few seconds was pretty unforgettable. We had a good laugh for the rest of the loading process.
I had the ring in my back pack the whole time and had a few scares when I accidentally put the sun block in there and security asked to see it. I was freaking out a bit because I forgot I had it in there. I was like great there goes the surprise and I will have to get on a knee at the airport. The tried to hide the look of relief but it was close. Lindsay had the back pack a couple times to which made me a bit nervous. We enjoyed the first day at sea and the cruise was awesome. We stopped at Cabo and I asked her on a beach called Lovers Cove, go figure. I waited most of the day and we only had about 30 minutes left before we had to head out so I stalled as long as possible.
When we got back we saw my parents out by the pool having some drinks. Again we weren't sure what to do by decided to just go over there and show them. My mom started crying and was obviously pretty happy along with everyone else. The rest of the cruise was great. We got some champaign and wine delivered from our friends and my parents sent us a dozen roses. I work for Holland America Line and I couldn't be happier with the way things went. Everyone should go on a cruise and should go with Holland. All those other companies are just pretenders. haha.
So that gets you caught up on that. I am getting married. Weird to say that and call her my Fiance... Lindsay and I had some fun with that.
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Congrats!!! She's beautiful!
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