Somebody's gettin' Married!!

I'm a little late on the posting of the engagment but it's a long one. I just wanted to make sure I got it right. :)

Ready.......GO!!!!

We were on vacation in Marble Head Ohio with Dan's family. On our first day there, Dan started the day off with a nice boat ride, we went and got a couples massage and were going to round out the evening with dinner at one of the local wineries. You would think after all this goodness I would have a clue. Nope...not even one.

We had dinner reservations at the winery 4pm (also should have been a clue, what are we 80 eating at 4pm?). We arrived at ten minutes to 4. Dan "decides" we should do wine tasting before dinner. Wine tasting in a matter of 10 minutes is not my idea of wine tasting but i humor him and go a long with the decision. Did i mention i was starving, because i was saving myself for a nice 4pm meal. We wine tasted in record speed. Why? #1 We had dinner reservations in 10 minutes, #2 I hadn't had anything to eat since breakfast and full blown wine tasting would have made me a stumbling moron and #3 I-was-STARVING!

I moved along the tasting and got us all wrapped up and ready to go in time for our dinner reservation. I decided i liked 3 of the wines we tasted and purchased them. The nice man behind the desk told me i couldn't take my bottles into the dining room. Merrrrrrr....fine. I moved things right a long and grabbed Dan's keys and took the wine out to the car.

Meanwhile.....Dan and John (guy who worked there) took this opportunity to run down to the wine cellar and set up the champagne and video camera for the proposal.

I return to the restaurant lobby to find Dan and John coming out from the staff only area...clue #2 i failed to pick up on. John proceeds to tell me that our table was not ready yet and if we were interested we could go on a short wine tour. Cue me looking into their dining room and seeing every...single....table....OPEN. At this point I am not thinking that this is a shady situation...i was thinking....THERE IS NO ONE IN THERE WHY CAN'T WE EAT NOW. I am one classy broad who apparently can think of nothing else but food. Awsome.

Needless to say I agreed to the tour. John led us into the kitchen past the staff bathrooms and down a sketchy set of basement stairs. Where in God's name are we GOING! John leads us into a storage room...a STORAGE room...and claims he forgot his "tour script". Again...i'm still not seeing the shadiness...i'm just annoyed we now have to wait longer to eat. (i think i need a support group) :)

Dan and I wander into the next room, which by the way is beautiful. It is a huge room with stone walls and an incredible stone ceiling. The lighting was low and romantic and guess what I still didn't get it. I wandered over to what looked to be a well in the ground with pretty lighting around it. I look down and there are amazing racks full of ancient wine bottles. Very cool. I was completely oblivious to the table 6 ft from me with champagne, candles and champagne flutes. OBLIVIOUS. Dan clearly had enough of me being oblivous and pointed out the table to me. I did not give it a second thought and assumed it was set up for an event later or was just part of the tour. Dan requests I take a closer look at the table. I humor him....and my eyes stumble upon the champagne flutes....

There it was plain as day, "Katie and Dan - August 3, 2008"

**Click**

In my confused daze i turn to Dan who is already on his knee reaching for the ring in his pocket. I remember looking at him and i remember him trying to put the ring on my finger, but i heard not a word he said....that voice in my head again. "HE'S ASKING YOU TO MARRY HIM!!!!!" The best part...Dan doesn't remember what he said either. I do remember saying yes, and i remember chugging the glass of champagne Dan handed me. I cried my face off and cursed Dan when he told me he was getting it all on film. We ventured up to the dining room and guess what....i wasn't hungry anymore. :)

Here's the video if you choose to see my obliviousness and my blubbering. WEE!!!
Feel free to fast forward the empty room from 1:45-3:40. It was a very echoy room so you can't really hear too much but there are a few choice things you can hear. Fun stuff!!!



PS....Dan has been planning this since Februrary. He may or may not be my favorite person. :)

Because i can't wait til i get home on sunday...

Dan proposed.....

and

I

SAID

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We are currently on vacation and won't be back til next week...stay tuned for the full story!

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!! :)