Location: Point Lobos, CA
Chad told me once a really long time ago that he was going to propose to me at Point Lobos. Why? Because when he and I came to Monterey to visit Dave (before he and I lived here), it was our favorite place that we had visited. Incase you didn't know, Chad is actually a very skilled photographer and he had gotten some amazing shots of the sunset there. I never took him seriously when he said he was going to propose to me there because, well, he was intoxicated when he told me. :) And I didn't think he remembered. Haha.
ANYWAY-
So, he got home from work at 5pm and said that Dave wanted to go hiking on Point Lobos that evening to watch the sunset. It had gotten up to 80 degrees that day (which is unheard of for Monterey) without a cloud in the sky. I thought "OMG, I wonder if this is the day?". Chad is really horrible at keeping secrets from me (he had told me all of my Xmas presents before I opened them, haha) and I was kind of expecting for him to be like "Hey, let's go to ____ so I can propose!" when it was going to happen. Well, we were sitting on our futon and he was like "Dave will text me when he is ready to go so we can pick him up" and I was like "okay, cool" so we sat there watching basketball. Sure enough, he gets a text from Dave saying that he was standing us up because he had forgotten about a cycling party he wanted to attend that night. Chad even showed me the text being like "He can't come because he has a cycling party." and that's when I thought "Oh, okay. So this ISN'T the day because Dave wouldn't have sent him a text like that if it was."
What actually happened is that they schemed earlier in the day for Dave to sent him a fake text pretending to "stand us up" on a hiking trip to watch the sunset, so that way it wouldn't look like Chad wasn't planning anything. Well, it worked. Good job, guys. haha.
So Chad was like "Let's just go anyway, without him." and said we needed to stop in his office to get the directions to the trail that Dave gave him earlier. Since Dave "wasn't coming anymore", Chad wasn't sure how to get to the trail. What he was REALLY doing was going to his office to get the ring he had been hiding there for the last week.
Point Lobos is about a 7-10 minute drive from our apartment. We got there and we starting walking on the trail as he snapped pictures of the ocean and the sunset.
Here are some of his photos:
This is a view of the trail we walked on.
Sunset.
We sat on this bench and he didn't say anything for about a minute. The view of the sunset from the bench we sat on is now my blog logo image above. :)
He said he loved me and I said I loved him too. He said "speaking about love... I don't think I'm going to keep you in suspense anymore." He got off the bench and got on one knee and said "I love you and I want to spend the rest of my life with you. Will you marry me?" and of course I said YES!!
The ring is a 1-carat diamond on a platinum setting from Tiffany&Co. :) I LOVE IT!
