Engaged!!

It was the weekend of June 20, 2003. That Saturday morning I thought that I would make some breakfast for Scott and I. While I was at the grocery store Scott called my parents to get their blessing on the engagement. (Little did I know any of this).
The plan was to go to Lincoln Park zoo and that evening go on a cruise around Lake Michigan. Well, we got to the zoo, and there was no parking so instead we decided to walk around Buckingham fountain. I started to get a little tired of walking around and asked if we could sit down. Every time I picked a nice spot Scott would say no. After the third or fourth time of me picking a spot he finally found the right one.
There we were sitting in the grass, a nice little quiet area and I decided to find three pieces of grass and braid them. I made this braid into a ring and asked for Scott's hand. He of course gave me his right hand and I wanted his left. I slipped the braided grass onto his ring finger and said "I will always love you". Well, I guess that open the door up for him because before I knew it he's opening a box and straight to the point said "Will you marry me". I was so excited of course. It didn't matter that I couldn't see the ring, (Scott was laying in the grass and I was sitting up). After crouching down I finally saw this beautiful ring, it was exactly what I wanted! I quickly had it put on my finger and couldn't wait to show everyone. We of course had our picture taken in front of Buckingham fountain.
Planning this weekend out, we had already booked a hotel in downtown Chicago. We headed to our room with a beautiful view and got cleaned up and ready for our cruise around the lake. Dinner, fireworks and seeing the city at night from the lake was just awesome! We finally got back to our hotel room around midnight that night. Sunday morning we enjoyed a day at the zoo.
We eventually made it back to my parents house and showed them the pretty ring.

Location:Buckingham fountain