the blog post you've all been waiting for...

 

the beginning: stoycho buys the plane ticket to South Africa.

So, when I first came to South Africa Stoycho had mentioned coming to visit me here, either on spring break or after his semester was over. After a little price researching and waiting for the price to drop by a few hundred dollars, he bought his plane tickets. That was Feb. 6, apparently he had eaten chinese food the day before but forgotten to eat the fortune cookie, so he enjoyed that with his leftovers just after purchasing the tickets and this is what it said. Apparently the brilliant idea dawned on him just a few days later...

After a month of waiting, he got here this past Sunday.  Over the course of the few weeks before that he had maybe dropped a few hints, and we had been planning this romantic beach picnic at sunset for weeks that he was abnormally excited about. oh and my best friend clelie asked me what my ring size was for a "birthday present".... that was a little fishy. but all in all I was clueless. So we decided that our picnic would just fall on the most convenient and prettiest day, which happened to be Tuesday. So we picked up a bottle of Champagne-style wine, some fruit, a beach towel, and headed out for Clifton Beach at around 5.30pm. We got there around 6.15, with sunset due at 7.14, and this is what we saw.... 

 

 

 

aaaand this picture below is when i'm still pretty clueless. we had to switch spots from our perfect little rocky cove, which was taken over by 3 girls with unlit fire batons, cameras, beers, and an illegal substance. they were loud and annoying and didn't seem to mind that they intruded on our romantic date... so i venture to find our new spot and here it is.

 

And then the sun went down, and as we enjoy the view and the empty-ish beach i turn to stoycho and ask him "so you were so excited about tonight, is it everything you wanted it to be?" he said it was, for the most part. After a few more minutes of sitting in silence he turns to me and says "do you know why i was so excited to bring you out here?" "no" "because i knew at the end i would get to do this..." *pulls out ring* "will you marry me?" "seriously? Seriously?" "I've talked to my parents, i've talked to your parents, i've talked to everyone i need to talk to" *a few more seriouslys* "Yes!" "are you gonna put the ring on?" "ok so you know how i said this was perfect?, i was lying, now it's perfect"

March 8, 2011 7:35 pm

 

fin.