Sometime in the next few months, I’ll tell you how it really began, with a boy I sort of remembered from high school as being quiet and kind and good with technology, and how our transpacific letters turned into friendship turned into love...
But not today. Today, you can hear about how on Saturday, September 3, my dear friend Alissa asked me to join her for tea in Port Gamble, which led us to a trip aboard the Washington State ferry from Edmonds to Kingston.
How she was acting kind of weird, but not quite weird enough to not just be herself (rather like the time she was a part of an elaborate conspiracy that led to my first date with Brad).
How I heard music start up behind me and, when I turned to see a young man singing and dancing to Frank Sinatra's "You Make Me Feel So Young," I commented, "That's great! If he had a girl near him, I would think he was proposing." And how he was joined by several other couples and I thought, "Yes, it is totally normal for a flashmob to be happening right now." How I spotted a guy who happened to be a friend of Brad's sisters and that didn't seem terribly strange either. And how my clever, amazing, dashing boyfriend snuck up behind me, seranaded me, and then produced the most beautiful ring and proposed with, "Caitlyn McKinney, you are my favorite person in the world and I want to spend the rest of my life with you. Will you marry me?"
And, of course, I said yes.
You can read about the proposal from the photographer who happened to be sitting next to us here: http://captureslife.com/2011/09/21/witnessing-a-flash-mob-engagement/
Or see the pictures here: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/media/set/?set=a.10150295725306091.333641.168832186090&type=1
And here: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/media/set/?set=a.2322076134414.131993.1324890020&type=1
Or watch the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOFU67q-Zus
You can also watch the video of my dashing fiance and his adorable sister leading the flashmob in practice before getting aboard the ferry here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0v0E7typEA
And see me ramble on about exactly why I didn’t have a clue that this singing had anything to do with me here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUiIyA2eF8g
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