Five years in the making and here we are engaged! I still cant believe it. Tucker proposed in complete Tucker style - it was perfect.
It happened during our vacation in Switzerland on one of those rare days were there was sun at the top of the mountain so we decided to jump on the train to get to top of the Goernergrat for the full mountain and glacier view. Tucker, apparently not satisfied that this was perfect enough, nonchalantly mentioned we should hike out through the snow to the next peak, which was decorated with towering cairns to get away from the viewing platform. My mind was on how great the photographs would be from there and I whole heartedly agreed.
We had the peak completely to ourselves and after I had my fill of running around and taking pictures we dangled our feet over the precipice and ate our delicious broetchen with alpine cheese that mysteriously snuck their way into our backpacks during breakfast. While I was admiring the view Tucker, in complete stealth mode, placed the ring on a minuscule rock ledge that looked down a complete vertical drop of several hundred feet (see the tip of the red arrow! Crazy, I know!)
I of course did not notice a thing. Tucker was growing increasingly nervous that I might accidentally kick the ring into oblivion or worse, the gathering crowd of crows who were eyeing the shiny prize would carry it off to decorate their nest. I am not sure which would have been the worst case scenario, but either way I would have been a complete nervous wreck if it were me and Tucker just looked like he was as calm as could be. Here is a crow eyeing the ring.
Finally after discussing vertigo and looking down a lot (hint hint), I finally spotted the ring. Not knowing about an imminent proposal I just naturally assumed some poor lady lost her ring, and how LUCKY we found it for her. I got all excited and told Tucker we should bring it to the lost and found as soon as we got down the mountain. This was obviously not quite the reaction he hoped for, so he took the ring put it on my finger and asked me if I would marry him. Still a little shocked and dumbfounded I think I asked him twice just to make sure, upon which I became all teary eyed and said "of course!!!!!!" Here I am with a big dopey grin and teary eyes flashing my promise ring (Tucker decided he would play it safe and we will pick out 'the ring' together - smart man!) There is a another long story about the ring but I wont get into it here, but a lot of thought went into it, so he received some major kudos.
Being the nerdy, now engaged, couple we of course took pictures to commemorate to occasion.
And last but not least, this was the great view we had. We sat on the small rock ledge you see peeking out on the right-hand corner.
We were just able to tell the news to my parents yesterday, since we wanted to do it in person and they were off traveling the world (see where I get it from!) and I am so excited I can finally post it! Its hard to keep something like this quiet - whew!
