Charlie

We met at a bar of all places! It was his sister's birthday party, and my cousin Amanda Simmons dragged me along. He saw that I wanted to play pool, and offered to play. My first impression of him was that he belonged in a study at home, sitting in a leather chair, with a book in one hand, and a mohito in the other. We hit it off right away, and a year later, we started dating. On our first date, he we walked around Green Lake, and Robbie kept pointing out all of the unhappy and angry looking people that he noticed. He had me laughing, but I kept shaking my head and playfully punched him. I found out he was a cat person, like mysel. In fact, he already had two cats. I also learned that he loved hiking and camping; and the fact that he was going to college and living on his own was a bonus. I was in love. He told me that he knew I was the one when we went to the coast, exploring tide pools and caves. I knew he was the one on our second hike, which was Rattlesnake Ledge. We started officialy dating on November 18th, 2011. We looked at rings at a few stores when the opportunity presented itself. I have often complained that I have never found a ring with my birthstone (emerald) that I liked, until the year of 2013. Valentine's Day was just around the corner. I fell in love with two different rings that had my birthstone. I couldn't decide which one I wanted more. I left the store by myself to go do something, I don't remember what now, but when I came back, Robbie told me that other people were looking at the same rings, and he thinks that they are going be bought; before he had a chance to get one of them. I was devastated. He told me he had an idea of how he was going to propose. On Good Friday, that same year, March 29th 2013, we hiked our favorite trail: The Lake Serene trail at Mt. Index. When we left, we were about to enter the next county when Robbie realized he forgot something, and we ended up turning around to go back home so that he could get it. We could not get to the lake at the top of the mountain due to avalanches, so we after trekking through a few feet of snow, we went back to the waterfalls on that same trail. After admiring the waterfall, we sat down on the rocks in front of the falls, and enjoyed a gorgeous view of the valley, surrounded by mountains. We were talking about various things, enjoying the view and each other. Then he turns to me, presents the familiar box, and asks me, "Will you keep calm..and marry me?" He opened the box, and there, in the box, was one of the rings that I fell in love with, that he told me was bought by someone else! Oh, did I mention that the waterfall that we were sitting in front of just happens to be called Bridal Veil Falls!? Of course I said yes!! On the way back to our hotel, he informed me that what he forgot at home that morning was the ring. I could not have asked for a better, more romantic proposal.