When Scott and I arrived home from the airport on Tuesday afternoon, I found out he’d planned a picnic tea for us. That was a lovely surprise! We drove to South Park and found a nice, secluded grassy area on a hill where we put our blanket and got out the food.. There was a hoagie for each of us (meat and lettuce and tomato on a roll), potato salad, heavenly hash (a concoction of lil marshmallows with pieces of pineapple and mandarins from a fruit salad can I think, in sour cream). Scott had also brought along champagne (a lovely sweet one, the sweetest he was able to find) and coke. He even lit a couple candles and put them on the picnic basket where the wax dripped everywhere (oops some heavy candle wax cleaning required *grin*). We ate some food and drank some champagne. Then my darling Scott got out a poetry book which he’d especially bought. He read me some poems which were bookmarked by different "bookmarks" he’d done on the computer. He’d scanned pictures and written things on each one…like "lil lioness" on one, "sweetheart on another", "soulmate" on another. These "bookmarks" were very oddly shaped and I soon figured out that I was gonna have to assemble them because on the reverse side appeared to be some sort of treasure map. Once Scott had finished reading the poetry (which was so romantic!) I turned the pieces over and sure enough, there was a treasure map. My cutie had conveniently brought along plastic sleeves in which to put the completed map!
Anyway, the start was an "oasis" which I eventually figured could be his swimming pool. We went home and at the swimming pool I figured the numbers and lines meant paces in directions. I followed the directions which ended up taking me into his room. Sitting on Scott’s bed were a teddy bear and a box of chocolates. Scott told me that he got me presents coz he couldn’t afford an engagement ring until he got a couple pay checks. He asked if I’d like a chocolate so I thought I’d open the box. I saw it was sealed and new and opened the box. When I lifted the cover over the chocolates, in the space where the middle one would have been was instead a little piece of cardboard with a ring sitting in it! I was really surprised because the box had been sealed…and Scott said he’d managed to convince a guy at a computer game shop to shrink wrap over the box so it would look new (he had to buy a game though so the guy would do it!) I was so thrilled and took the ring out of the cardboard. It’s a perfectly shaped three quarter carat diamond heart. Scott took the ring from me and told me how much he loved me and asked me to marry him and of course I said yes, and then he slipped the ring onto my finger, and it fit perfectly too! He told me he spent a lot of time looking for the perfect ring and bought it about three weeks after I left at the end of May *s* He has also bought a ring wrap which will go to either side of the heart which he will give me at the same time as the wedding ring (which we will go looking for soon, for matching rings). So it’s finally official! Every time I look at my ring it just blows me away that I’m really here and that Scott and I are really back together forever. My life is a fairytale *happy sigh*