So, though it’s girly, I’ve been asked by several people, so here, well rehearsed, is an engagement story (it’s fine, I hear, from David, that there are many on the internet, so one more is not so bad).
On the 18th of June (precisely a 2.33 years after we started dating) we went for a hike in Wales. It was a slightly damp hike up a trail that went along a river in which there were many waterfalls. The man at the trail information center thought we were crazy as it was a seven mile hike and we were starting at one in the afternoon. He said it would take us 12 hours (we said we thought we could do it faster which obviously anyone not-dead could).
We started off. The waterfalls were pretty. We took a wrong turn and corrected. I asked for a ginger snap and David said we’d keep going and snack in a bit.
At the second waterfall David asked if I’d like my ginger snap and I said I was okay (because I’d already asked at the first waterfall and now that I hadn’t been given it I figured I’d better demonstrate that I could hold out as long as anyone before being given a cookie). David said he would like one and kneeled on the ground to rummage in his bag. He looked up and instead of offering the cookie offered me my great honeysuckle ring, and asked if I’d marry him (I know I’m writing this and it seems more cute than I’d usually be, but people keep asking).
We turned around and a giant bee king was crawling on David’s backpack. We saw him as an omen of peace, moved him to the side of the road, and set a cookie near him (which he rejected).
I said I would and he gave me the ring and we kept walking. We found an even better waterfall and posed there so we could pretend he’d asked me by the quite big waterfall.
We finished our walk and got back to our hotel. Tired though I was David had even more surprises in store. He produced very fancy pink campaign from our refrigerator, which he’d brought from London.
We went off to a quite fancy dinner, and returned and had our campaign. Word spread and everyone wished us luck via David’s phone (which works, even in Wales). And that’s the story of the engagement. The whole trip was lovely.
