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Brilliant_Rock
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Well, I''m back! We had a great time, despite vacationing with my family (who are all loud and very high-stress, a tough situation for low-key, laid-back Kyle). Sunday, December 4th, after a day of snorkeling, we decided to take some time for just the two of us (which had thus far been hard to come by) and go on a romantic, sunset dinner cruise. I had suggested the cruise, and despite my opinion that Hawaii would be a great place for a proposal, I had not seen any suspicious behavior which would make me think that he had planned on any such activity while on vacation, and since we were already halfway through the vacation I didn''t really expect it to happen on the trip. (Which, surprisingly enough, didn''t really bug me like I thought it would... I was just having a good time.)
Anyway!... so Sunday night we decided to go on a romantic-sunset-dinner-cruise. We spent the morning snorkeling and then it started to rain... it rained the entire time we were getting all dressed up, but it started to clear up while we were walking to the shuttle meeting point, at which point, Kyle says, "Hey, if the rain clears up, you want to go for a walk on the beach when we get back? Get us a little more time away?" and I agree that sounds like a great idea.
Our romantic-sunset-dinner-cruise turns out to be a family-friendly fun buffet sunset dinner cruise, complete with bus cheering competitions (we were bus #1) in which we "were ALL winners!" of the grand prize (the privilege to start off the first dance song... that''s right, it was: the Macarena!) and an upbeat dance medley consisting of such American classics as the Electric Slide, the Conga line, and the Hokey Pokey. Romantic? Certainly not. But we did have a lot of fun.
After the bus dropped us off after dinner, we headed off to walk on moonlit Waikiki Beach, stilettos in hand. The sand was still damp from the rain and the water was cold but it was nice to have some quiet time with my honey. The clouds had cleared and the sky was black, scattered with stars, and the moon seemed so close, reflecting off the water like glass and making the white caps glow, even as far away as the horizon. We walked for a while and chatted about the trip, then stopped and talked about an issue that had come up the day before we left... something which deeply troubled both of us, and which we didn''t have a chance to discuss before we left. We''d had time to think about it now and had calmed down so we could talk about it civilly; turns out it wasn''t as big a deal as either of us thought. That being settled, we spent a few minutes holding each other close and I could feel his heart beating hard through his chest and his belly. I wondered if the conversation had been harder on him than he''d let on... and then he took a ring from his pocket, said some unbelievably sweet things, and from one knee, asked me to marry him.
Of course I said yes!
We spent a few more minutes together, then went up to tell my family. A few days later we bought a little magnet for the fridge, a bottle filled with sand and seashells. By removing the cork, we could dump out the sand, and we refilled it with sand from "our spot". Since Kyle bought a temporary ring, I''m going to see if we can get another from the same vendor in a size 2, and add that to the bottle.
As for the ring, currently I''m wearing approx 1.5ct on a cathedral eternity setting (good choice on a temp!), all CZ of course, while we''re looking for "the" ring. I''m sure I''ll be asking questions on my final setting choice but hoping to figure it out soon!
No pics of us for the engagement but here''s one from North Shore the next day:
Anyway!... so Sunday night we decided to go on a romantic-sunset-dinner-cruise. We spent the morning snorkeling and then it started to rain... it rained the entire time we were getting all dressed up, but it started to clear up while we were walking to the shuttle meeting point, at which point, Kyle says, "Hey, if the rain clears up, you want to go for a walk on the beach when we get back? Get us a little more time away?" and I agree that sounds like a great idea.
Our romantic-sunset-dinner-cruise turns out to be a family-friendly fun buffet sunset dinner cruise, complete with bus cheering competitions (we were bus #1) in which we "were ALL winners!" of the grand prize (the privilege to start off the first dance song... that''s right, it was: the Macarena!) and an upbeat dance medley consisting of such American classics as the Electric Slide, the Conga line, and the Hokey Pokey. Romantic? Certainly not. But we did have a lot of fun.
After the bus dropped us off after dinner, we headed off to walk on moonlit Waikiki Beach, stilettos in hand. The sand was still damp from the rain and the water was cold but it was nice to have some quiet time with my honey. The clouds had cleared and the sky was black, scattered with stars, and the moon seemed so close, reflecting off the water like glass and making the white caps glow, even as far away as the horizon. We walked for a while and chatted about the trip, then stopped and talked about an issue that had come up the day before we left... something which deeply troubled both of us, and which we didn''t have a chance to discuss before we left. We''d had time to think about it now and had calmed down so we could talk about it civilly; turns out it wasn''t as big a deal as either of us thought. That being settled, we spent a few minutes holding each other close and I could feel his heart beating hard through his chest and his belly. I wondered if the conversation had been harder on him than he''d let on... and then he took a ring from his pocket, said some unbelievably sweet things, and from one knee, asked me to marry him.
Of course I said yes!
We spent a few more minutes together, then went up to tell my family. A few days later we bought a little magnet for the fridge, a bottle filled with sand and seashells. By removing the cork, we could dump out the sand, and we refilled it with sand from "our spot". Since Kyle bought a temporary ring, I''m going to see if we can get another from the same vendor in a size 2, and add that to the bottle.
As for the ring, currently I''m wearing approx 1.5ct on a cathedral eternity setting (good choice on a temp!), all CZ of course, while we''re looking for "the" ring. I''m sure I''ll be asking questions on my final setting choice but hoping to figure it out soon!
No pics of us for the engagement but here''s one from North Shore the next day:
And I wanna see pics of the temp ring too!! Who cares if it''s a temp, we still wanna see it!! 
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