2 years ago today . . .

Two years ago today I asked my girlfriend at the time(now my wife) to go out on a date with me. Playing it up as if it was just another date to where we would probably just go to Starbucks and hang out and talk and then maybe go to McKays or walk around Worlds Fair Park, thats usually what most of our dates consisted of, three of our favorite places to go.

Little did she know that I had an engagement ring in the car at the same time in the same car we were driving in to go to the same places we had always gone. So this is how it all played out . . .

We arrived at Starbucks, got our normal drinks that we always got, went and sat on some comfy chairs and just hung out. Well, it began to storm, and storm reeeally hard, so hard that the power went out and we were hanging out talking in the Starbucks with the floodlights on and thats all that was on in the whole store. So this isn't really working out like I had it all mapped out in my head. Well we look outside only to see chairs floating down the street because there was so much rain and wind. Not really playing out at all like I had thought. So we hung out there a little bit more, then it finally died down and began to sprinkle only a little. So I asked her if she wanted to go walk around Worlds Fair Park, which caught her off guard because I'm usually not the type of person that wants to just go walk around in the rain for fun. But I convinced her to and so we did. While she ran to the bathroom in Starbucks, I ran to my car and popped the trunk and put on a light jacket that had the ring in the pocket. So it was starting to pull together.

Well with all the rain, it ran everyone out of the park except for one homeless man we saw, so that ended up being alright. We walked around and just talked. I had my phone on vibrate and had set the alarm to go off 9:11 pm. She always looked at the clock at that time and she never knew why. Well I actually had it set for 9:10 so I knew to ask her a question when it went off. When I felt my phone vibrating I asked her when she needed to get back because she was supposed to hang out with a few friends that night and she said whenever we got back. Well by that time, I looked at my clock and was like . . ."Oh, guess what time it is?" and of course it was 9:11 and I asked her why she thought she always looked at the clock at that time and she gave me a few reasons. I suggested that maybe she looked at the clock at 9:11 because she knew big things happened at that time. Which is when I proceeded to pull out the ring and propose to her on a few steps right next to the water in worlds fair park.