I'm slightly modifying my "boathouse idea" to make it more romantic than funny/stupid. I want her to be able to tell the story of how we got engaged without being too embarrased.
I just went down to check out the boathouse (which is just off of the Mississippi River) after a few years of not being on the team. Well, it's spring break here at the UofMN and therefore the crew team is down in Texas so the boathouse is locked so I won't be able to get in. However, I didn't remember the boathouse being in such shambles as well as the area around it is kind of like a construction site. (The Minnesota's men's team is club, so we don't have varsity funds for the upkeep.) Keep this in mind.
Instead of the idea of pullling my pants down (see previous Proposal Idea thread), I was thinking of decorating the backside of the boathouse with white x-mas lights (I'd use candles, but that might not be the safest thing with some of those old wooden boats) and carpet the ground with white rose pedals. However, there isn't any powersource so I'm going to have to figure out what to plug the lights into (any ideas???). I was going to do this at dusk so it would be fairly dark out. I figure that we could drive down there--I'll convince her that they put an addition onto the back--and I'll plug in the lights and propose.
But picture this idea similar to the episode of Friends were Ross and Emily go to their church in England where they were going to get married and it's half torn down. But Ross convinces her once he cleans it up and flips on some x-mas lights.
Then, since it's kind of cold up here still, I was going to have a picnic dinner in the trunk of the car that we could eat while being under the x-mas lights staring across the river at downtown Minneapolis.
How does this sound???
I just went down to check out the boathouse (which is just off of the Mississippi River) after a few years of not being on the team. Well, it's spring break here at the UofMN and therefore the crew team is down in Texas so the boathouse is locked so I won't be able to get in. However, I didn't remember the boathouse being in such shambles as well as the area around it is kind of like a construction site. (The Minnesota's men's team is club, so we don't have varsity funds for the upkeep.) Keep this in mind.
Instead of the idea of pullling my pants down (see previous Proposal Idea thread), I was thinking of decorating the backside of the boathouse with white x-mas lights (I'd use candles, but that might not be the safest thing with some of those old wooden boats) and carpet the ground with white rose pedals. However, there isn't any powersource so I'm going to have to figure out what to plug the lights into (any ideas???). I was going to do this at dusk so it would be fairly dark out. I figure that we could drive down there--I'll convince her that they put an addition onto the back--and I'll plug in the lights and propose.
But picture this idea similar to the episode of Friends were Ross and Emily go to their church in England where they were going to get married and it's half torn down. But Ross convinces her once he cleans it up and flips on some x-mas lights.
Then, since it's kind of cold up here still, I was going to have a picnic dinner in the trunk of the car that we could eat while being under the x-mas lights staring across the river at downtown Minneapolis.
How does this sound???
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