Hughto
07-12-2006, 08:45 AM
Let's try this again!
Aaron and I met my last semester of senior year of college. He had gone to my college, but graduated years before. He lived in town still and worked remotely for a company in Mass. We met through a grad student I knew and went to undergrad with Aaron.
Aaron and I got together weeks before my graduation. Now, the town we were in was Ithaca, NY. The town had beautiful gorges and amazing waterfalls. None of which I ever got to explore while enrolled in school. I graduated a year early from school, so I was very busy with a crazy schedule. When Aaron and I got together, we spent some time at some of the gorges, and did some hiking until I had to leave town for the next step in my life… the real world.
Now, I won’t bore you with everything that happened in between, but the beginning is very important to the story. Two years ago last week, I had come to the point when I was ready to really start my life with Aaron and had joined several wedding boards. The following week, we took a long weekend and took a trip back to Ithaca to visit some friends in the area. It was the 4th of July weekend. On July 3rd, we had some time, so we decided to hike through one of the gorges. We went to one neither of us had ever been to before. Robert Treman State Park. We started at the lower falls trail and followed a creek up the gorge. It was all very beautiful. We came to a bridge and decided to take it back down the trail, when some people wading in the water near by caught our eye. We went out and discovered a mammoth waterfall with towering shale walls. It was beautiful and amazing, something I can not describe to come close to giving it justice! In that moment, Treman State Park became my favorite place in the world.
Now, Aaron’s second love is scuba diving. A few weeks ago, he had bought a new valve for one of his tanks. When he came home, I was making dinner, I made a joke, “Did you buy me a present?!?” No, it was just a valve. I teased him, “Oh, you bought a present for the tank, and nothing for me! No fair.” We went on for awhile about how I want a present and he wanted to know what kind of present I wanted…
Now, months ago, we found out a friends of Aaron’s was getting married in Ithaca the weekend following the 4th of July weekend. We decided to make a trip out of the whole week. We booked a B&B and decided to do a lot of waterfall hiking, so that I could experience all the beauty I missed when I rushed through college. We got into town yesterday (Sunday). We planned to start Monday with a hike through Treman State Park.
We got there early this morning and decided to start with the rim trail, which is where the overlook over the gorge is. We got to the overlook and were amazed once again at how beautiful it was. Last Christmas, I got Aaron a really nice camera, and photography has become one of his new hobbies. He was just looking at the falls and other people around so I asked if he was going to take some pictures. He said he just wanted to enjoy the view for awhile and would soon. A couple of hikers would come and enjoy the view, and then leave, and another small group would show up. Aaron decided to take some pictures, and we had a passer by take a snap shot of us with the falls behind us. We were sitting on the edge of the wall, with over a 150 foot drop below us. A couple left and Aaron got up and started giving me a massage. A group showed up and quickly departed. Aaron leaned over and kissed my shoulder.
“I got you a present.” When he said that, I began wondering why. Our 4 year anni was months ago, there was no holidays or birthdays or anything. So I asked in a teasing voice, “What did you get me?” (It wasn’t until later I remembered about me teasing him about the present.)
He pulled out a little box and placed it on the rock wall next to me that I was sitting on. It wasn’t a small square box, but small rectangle like, and definitely a jewelry box. But my brain still didn’t register. I looked at him and at the box, and he kneeled down on one knee. I started shaking and didn’t dare move. At this point, he asked me to marry him and opened the box. I just stared at him and the ring, and I think I was pretty much speechless. He said my expression was dumbfounded! I wound up asking him if he was serious, in which he laughed at and said yes, and later made fun of me for it. He finally asked if that was a ‘yes,’ and I told him of course! He took the ring out and slipped it onto my finger!
It was absolutely the best place I could have imagined for our proposal! The place I deem as the most beautiful and amazing spot on earth. In the town that we met in. He couldn’t have done better!!!
So, it’s 3:30 AM, as I listen to the waterfall outside our window at the B&B and the soft breathing of my fiancé next to me. I hope you enjoyed our proposal story. I should probably join my FH in sleep!!!
Happy 4th of July!
Aaron and I met my last semester of senior year of college. He had gone to my college, but graduated years before. He lived in town still and worked remotely for a company in Mass. We met through a grad student I knew and went to undergrad with Aaron.
Aaron and I got together weeks before my graduation. Now, the town we were in was Ithaca, NY. The town had beautiful gorges and amazing waterfalls. None of which I ever got to explore while enrolled in school. I graduated a year early from school, so I was very busy with a crazy schedule. When Aaron and I got together, we spent some time at some of the gorges, and did some hiking until I had to leave town for the next step in my life… the real world.
Now, I won’t bore you with everything that happened in between, but the beginning is very important to the story. Two years ago last week, I had come to the point when I was ready to really start my life with Aaron and had joined several wedding boards. The following week, we took a long weekend and took a trip back to Ithaca to visit some friends in the area. It was the 4th of July weekend. On July 3rd, we had some time, so we decided to hike through one of the gorges. We went to one neither of us had ever been to before. Robert Treman State Park. We started at the lower falls trail and followed a creek up the gorge. It was all very beautiful. We came to a bridge and decided to take it back down the trail, when some people wading in the water near by caught our eye. We went out and discovered a mammoth waterfall with towering shale walls. It was beautiful and amazing, something I can not describe to come close to giving it justice! In that moment, Treman State Park became my favorite place in the world.
Now, Aaron’s second love is scuba diving. A few weeks ago, he had bought a new valve for one of his tanks. When he came home, I was making dinner, I made a joke, “Did you buy me a present?!?” No, it was just a valve. I teased him, “Oh, you bought a present for the tank, and nothing for me! No fair.” We went on for awhile about how I want a present and he wanted to know what kind of present I wanted…
Now, months ago, we found out a friends of Aaron’s was getting married in Ithaca the weekend following the 4th of July weekend. We decided to make a trip out of the whole week. We booked a B&B and decided to do a lot of waterfall hiking, so that I could experience all the beauty I missed when I rushed through college. We got into town yesterday (Sunday). We planned to start Monday with a hike through Treman State Park.
We got there early this morning and decided to start with the rim trail, which is where the overlook over the gorge is. We got to the overlook and were amazed once again at how beautiful it was. Last Christmas, I got Aaron a really nice camera, and photography has become one of his new hobbies. He was just looking at the falls and other people around so I asked if he was going to take some pictures. He said he just wanted to enjoy the view for awhile and would soon. A couple of hikers would come and enjoy the view, and then leave, and another small group would show up. Aaron decided to take some pictures, and we had a passer by take a snap shot of us with the falls behind us. We were sitting on the edge of the wall, with over a 150 foot drop below us. A couple left and Aaron got up and started giving me a massage. A group showed up and quickly departed. Aaron leaned over and kissed my shoulder.
“I got you a present.” When he said that, I began wondering why. Our 4 year anni was months ago, there was no holidays or birthdays or anything. So I asked in a teasing voice, “What did you get me?” (It wasn’t until later I remembered about me teasing him about the present.)
He pulled out a little box and placed it on the rock wall next to me that I was sitting on. It wasn’t a small square box, but small rectangle like, and definitely a jewelry box. But my brain still didn’t register. I looked at him and at the box, and he kneeled down on one knee. I started shaking and didn’t dare move. At this point, he asked me to marry him and opened the box. I just stared at him and the ring, and I think I was pretty much speechless. He said my expression was dumbfounded! I wound up asking him if he was serious, in which he laughed at and said yes, and later made fun of me for it. He finally asked if that was a ‘yes,’ and I told him of course! He took the ring out and slipped it onto my finger!
It was absolutely the best place I could have imagined for our proposal! The place I deem as the most beautiful and amazing spot on earth. In the town that we met in. He couldn’t have done better!!!
So, it’s 3:30 AM, as I listen to the waterfall outside our window at the B&B and the soft breathing of my fiancé next to me. I hope you enjoyed our proposal story. I should probably join my FH in sleep!!!
Happy 4th of July!