I've been getting a lot of questions of how David proposed and "the story." So I figured I would give everyone a good laugh and tell the story of how I cancelled my own dream proposal.
I was supposed to have a flying lesson on Wednesday morning with one of my best friend's husband who is a flight instructor at my school. I looked up the weather forecast and it said it was MVFR...which in non aviation terms means the weather was kinda hit or miss. You could fly in it but you may not want to. And that same morning, my friend's instrument check ride (basically your driver's license test for piloting) was cancelled because the examiner said the weather wasn't good enough. So knowing this information, I texted him telling him to cancel my lesson for weather. Well, since he was in communication with David and knew he had a "plan", he kept saying to come to the airport and he was going to charge me money for my lesson if I didn't come. Me being overly emotional got upset with how aggressive he was being about me coming to the flight school when every other student was allowed to cancel for the weather. I didn't want to fly in questionable conditions where I felt I wasn't going to learn anything and it would be a waste of money. I started crying and that is when David realized he was gonna have to go to plan B. His original plan was to propose to me at the airport when we landed and my family as well as his would be waiting by the ATC tower watching the proposal and taking pictures. My friend Liz (Nick, the flight instructor's wife) was also going to be there waiting with her professional camera. Once I cancelled my lesson and stopped crying, David went to plan B.
We decided to go out to eat to Max and Erma's for lunch. He was texting everyone the new plan during lunch. We decided to go ice skating around the Christmas tree since I've been begging for us to go. Everyone knows Christmas is my favorite time of the year. So we decided to meet up with our friends Matthew and Vanessa to go ice skating. Well, on the drive to the ice skating rink, my food was not sitting right. I hadn't had meat in about a month due to having the stomach bug and then mono which gives you no appetite. I made the mistake of having a burger. Soooooo, now I'm hunched over in the back seat dying of pain. Poor David. He got scared he was gonna have to abort this mission as well! We got downtown and the poor kid is running into CVS getting me medicine while I'm in the bathroom for 20 minutes, all while texting everyone what's going on and to keep hiding. I finally came out and said LET'S GO ICESKATING.
We started walking towards the tree and Vanessa said to get a picture in front of the Christmas tree. While she was taking a VIDEO, David got down on one knee and asked for me to marry him. Completely shocked and overwhelmed with happiness, I then looked up and saw my family and his come out from around the corner. It even took me a whole 3 minutes to even see Liz who was taking amazing pictures the entire time.
Poor David has to deal with ME for the rest of his life. But I am so incredibly thankful and blessed by everyone who made our moment absolutely perfect. And hey, who else can say they cancelled their own proposal? Here's to our happily ever after!
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