But the biggest news in the last month is far more exciting and life altering than any weight loss program: I'm getting married.
I guess I'll start at the beginning.
I met Sara (in person) on April 25, 2010. We had drinks and eventually dinner at The Hopyard in Pleasanton. We shut the place down. I liked her so much I had to see her immediately so I asked her if she wanted to get a drink the next night. We did and it was awesome.
Fast forward almost two years and I decide I'm going to ask Sara to marry me. So I sorta plan it out for April which ends up being Spring Break and when we go to Alaska. In February I made one trip to my friend in the diamond business and all I had to do was wait.
So we plan Alaska and I think I'm going to propose on the first night under the Northern Lights in Fairbanks. Turns out that was a bust. So we head to Anchorage and stay there for a couple nights. I still want to propose under the lights but unfortunately, no lights. We make a last minute decision to bail on Anchorage and stay in Talkeetna for our last night as well as make a last ditch effort at seeing the lights.
When we arrive in Talkeetna, we sign in to the Talkeetna Roadhouse (awesome establishment) and then take in the sights of the town. All 6 of the ten "sights" that were in town, that is. The best sight was the Denali Brewery where we have some great beer and food. It was such good beer that we decided to get a growler of scotch ale to drink while we watch the northern lights later.
A few hours later, Sara isn't feeling very well so I sit and watch trailers on my phone and make a huge dent in the beer while she takes a power nap, at midnight. At 2am I wake her up and we walk towards the river so we can see the lights and I can take pictures and finally propose. We sit for 2 hours and watch the lights which are less than spectacular but still pretty cool. By 4 Sara is very cold and tired and insists we go back despite my pleadings of "maybe it'll get better." She's excited enough by what we saw so we go back to our room. When we get inside I know that I have about 60 seconds before she's changed and asleep. So I ramble on about how I wish the lights were better and more special for our trip while I fumble with my bag to get the ring out. She's trying to explain that she loved what we saw and everything was special. I say, "well I wanted it to be more special for this" and I turn around with the box in my hands. She looks at it and says "whats that?! where did you get that?!" I open the box and tell her that I love her and that I want to spend my life with her and will she marry me.
She obviously says yes and we spend the next hour talking about a whole bunch of surreal things that I barely remember because I was a little tipsy and it was super late and it was just a surreal experience in the first place.
So there you have it. We're engaged. It's pretty incredible. We're having a great time celebrating about the whole thing and talking about how we're going to do it. We've been getting tons of love and support from everyone we know. We're very proud and very happy.
Thanks for reading.
