Engagement

C & I spent our junior year spring break driving south with the main objective of the vacation being spontaneous & just sort of stop when we felt like it. We left NY and made it all the way down to Whitehall, MD to have a visit with my friend E & her boyfriend. After a few hours we were getting tired so we decided to head towards Baltimore & find a hotel.

What we didn't anticipate was the National Epidemiologist Conference being held in Baltimore, so we drove around from hotel to hotel looking for a single room to no avail. About an hour later we arrived in Washington, DC & finally were able to find a room! We were so exhausted, we crashed before even getting our PJs on. The next morning we went sight seeing to all the hot spots before driving to Virginia for the night. From there we headed back to DC for a bit more of the touristy stuff & then slowly making our way back up north to his parents house in Rhode Island.

On the Sunday morning before I was heading back up to college in Vermont, C was on the phone for a long time & his parents had gone to visit relatives, so I was sitting in the kitchen watching tv. I finally yelled up the stairs that I was going to head out since I still had a 4 hour drive ahead of me & didn't want to be arriving in my dorm at midnight. I went upstairs to use the bathroom before packing my bags in the car.

This next part is all sorta fuzzy in my mind, but somewhere during this time I had my back to C & when I turned around I thought he'd disappeared, but to my surprise he was down on his knee asking me to marry him. Totally OVERWHELMED with surprise I started to cry & some how got, "yes" out while giving him a huge hug. Then we had to call our families.

I will never forget driving down his street staring at my left hand & just getting butterflies in my tummy. After a long drive of which I don't recall a thing, I was in my dorm room showing off my diamond to my roommate, KW & her boyfriend, MV. They were so excited for me, we hardly got any sleep that night.