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dolariWedensday, March 11
With the Victoria trip off, I was back to my original plans for doing Vancouver this weekend. We woke up, got dressed and cleaned up. My original plan, as I told Emily, was to ride down all of Avenue Zero, which borders the US border, to Peace Arch Park. We slowly made our way out to Abbotsford, but not without ONE important pull-off.
It was a bright bright sunny clear day. Cold but clear. And all through the trip, Mount Baker loomed over over the city. Since I moved here, and began to see the real honest to goodness mountains and volcanoes on the horizon, I've begun to see them as almost mythological characters. It's hard not to be in awe of them, at least to me, whose never seen anything like them before in my life. Mt Rainier has become a "father mountain" to me in Seattle. Mt Baker, which is very hard to see in Seattle, and is much smaller, and almost completely covered in snow, has become the "mother mountain."
But in Vancouver, Mother Mountain is the incredibly large visible one (I've never seen Rainier in Vancouver). And she was going to bless this day:
Mt Baker - 3072x973 - 1.93MB
Aldergrove Panorama - 4096x508 - 1.44 MB
We finally made our way to Avenue Zero where Emily and I switched places. I told her it was so I could take pics...in fact, it was so I could pop onto the Sidekick. The phone picks up American Cell Towers which means I can get online, which I did. I'd originally planned to let people know I was on my way to Peace Arch to propose ain case anyone wanted to witness. Problem was - with the last minute switch back to Vancouver, everyone had already made other plans and no one was online. Boogers.
It's prolly a good thing - the ride along Avenue Zero was a LOT faster than I'd remembered. I did see some neat areas - including one or two spots where there was no ditch delineating the boundary, or the swamp that's just on the US side of the broder, crustal clear through the leafless trees that usually block it's view, or where Avenue Zero and Boundary Road sit side by side:
Boundary Road, Whatcom County, Washington, USA on the left, Avenue Zero, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada on the right.
In time, we made it to Pecae Arch. A lot faster than I'd expected, but we made it. Once we got there, we explored the gardeny area of the park, and got to the place where I'd wanted to propse. As Emly walked up to the tree I told her there was somethine here I wanted to show her.
I positioned her JUUUUST right, so that she was on the US side of the border and I was on the Canada side.
"Remember when I said I wanted this to be the most perfect weekend of our lives? Well, this is the most imperfect part of it, becuase I don't have anything I can give you but my love." I grabbed her hand, dropped down to one knee and asked "Will you marry me?"
She said "Yes." :)
I got up and gave her the buggest hug I could, telling her I loved her...when she said "I need to tell you...I've known abou this for about two months."
...guh....
Turns out Emily had read about my plans just FIFTEEN MINUTES after I'd posted them. She went to a friend's house who was on the special filter, and Emily forgot to log her out when checking her friend's pages. So she's known since January I was planning to propose.
Oh, well. She knew I was in love with her LONG before I'd told her - why change thigns now? :D
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jessie_c and Jean had invited us over to their house after the proposal for a celebratory dinner, and after a quick stop to drop off used motor oil (how romantic!) and had a good evening with the folks, our first as an engaged couple.
The evening was capped off with a night at The Worst And Best Tim Horton's In The Universe. We ordered two ice caps, and a half dozen. Our ICe Caps had no whipped cream, the woman behind the counter refused to take my Visa, but then gave us a doze donuts...that we couldn't choose. O_o; Wow, what a wierd place.
We went to bed after a long night of reminiscing. A wonderful day despite the problems of the day before...
With the Victoria trip off, I was back to my original plans for doing Vancouver this weekend. We woke up, got dressed and cleaned up. My original plan, as I told Emily, was to ride down all of Avenue Zero, which borders the US border, to Peace Arch Park. We slowly made our way out to Abbotsford, but not without ONE important pull-off.
It was a bright bright sunny clear day. Cold but clear. And all through the trip, Mount Baker loomed over over the city. Since I moved here, and began to see the real honest to goodness mountains and volcanoes on the horizon, I've begun to see them as almost mythological characters. It's hard not to be in awe of them, at least to me, whose never seen anything like them before in my life. Mt Rainier has become a "father mountain" to me in Seattle. Mt Baker, which is very hard to see in Seattle, and is much smaller, and almost completely covered in snow, has become the "mother mountain."
But in Vancouver, Mother Mountain is the incredibly large visible one (I've never seen Rainier in Vancouver). And she was going to bless this day:
Mt Baker - 3072x973 - 1.93MB
Aldergrove Panorama - 4096x508 - 1.44 MB
We finally made our way to Avenue Zero where Emily and I switched places. I told her it was so I could take pics...in fact, it was so I could pop onto the Sidekick. The phone picks up American Cell Towers which means I can get online, which I did. I'd originally planned to let people know I was on my way to Peace Arch to propose ain case anyone wanted to witness. Problem was - with the last minute switch back to Vancouver, everyone had already made other plans and no one was online. Boogers.
It's prolly a good thing - the ride along Avenue Zero was a LOT faster than I'd remembered. I did see some neat areas - including one or two spots where there was no ditch delineating the boundary, or the swamp that's just on the US side of the broder, crustal clear through the leafless trees that usually block it's view, or where Avenue Zero and Boundary Road sit side by side:
Boundary Road, Whatcom County, Washington, USA on the left, Avenue Zero, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada on the right.
In time, we made it to Pecae Arch. A lot faster than I'd expected, but we made it. Once we got there, we explored the gardeny area of the park, and got to the place where I'd wanted to propse. As Emly walked up to the tree I told her there was somethine here I wanted to show her.
I positioned her JUUUUST right, so that she was on the US side of the border and I was on the Canada side.
"Remember when I said I wanted this to be the most perfect weekend of our lives? Well, this is the most imperfect part of it, becuase I don't have anything I can give you but my love." I grabbed her hand, dropped down to one knee and asked "Will you marry me?"
She said "Yes." :)
I got up and gave her the buggest hug I could, telling her I loved her...when she said "I need to tell you...I've known abou this for about two months."
...guh....
Turns out Emily had read about my plans just FIFTEEN MINUTES after I'd posted them. She went to a friend's house who was on the special filter, and Emily forgot to log her out when checking her friend's pages. So she's known since January I was planning to propose.
Oh, well. She knew I was in love with her LONG before I'd told her - why change thigns now? :D
jessie_c and Jean had invited us over to their house after the proposal for a celebratory dinner, and after a quick stop to drop off used motor oil (how romantic!) and had a good evening with the folks, our first as an engaged couple.The evening was capped off with a night at The Worst And Best Tim Horton's In The Universe. We ordered two ice caps, and a half dozen. Our ICe Caps had no whipped cream, the woman behind the counter refused to take my Visa, but then gave us a doze donuts...that we couldn't choose. O_o; Wow, what a wierd place.
We went to bed after a long night of reminiscing. A wonderful day despite the problems of the day before...
