Javier & Susan

As much as a girl may know the big question is coming at some point in the near future, it may be months down the road, she doesn’t want to know when it is going to happen!  I for one wanted to be as surprised as possible, and Javier definitely got me!  I have to say, there were a few things leading up to his proposal that made me stop and think, including the slightest slip from Javy himself, but I completely talked myself out of it.  He’s a planner, three weeks, let alone one week prior to going to Victoria, no way was it happening yet.  He hadn’t asked for my parents blessing, bought a ring, it wasn’t happening for months.  I was completely surprised and completely unprepared when he proposed.  Obviously, little had I known, he had met with my parents weeks before, and was carrying the ring in his back pack on the plane and then in his jacket pocket the whole day!!

We had decided to go on vacation to Seattle to visit his sister and one of his best friends.  We bought our plane tickets three weeks before and planned to go for about 5 days.  About a week before we were leaving he mentioned taking a ferry from Seattle to Victoria, BC.  I was all for it and it was set.

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