THE BEST DAY EVER :D

So Chris and I continued on our scooter tour and stopped at some scenic points (I thought we were just pulling over to let cars pass...).  We pulled into Sandy's, a beach where you can usually see surfing, body boarding, body surfing and maybe some kites.  Coincidentally while puttering around the parking lot looking for some place to park we ran into some of Chris' old students as they were leaving!

SANDY BEACH PARK

We laid down a towel and sat down to just hang out.  Well, I sat and Chris reclined on my lap. It was really nice - about 4:30 in the afternoon, the sun was just starting to descend and it was really nice just relaxing on the beach. Chris started talking about how he had read the other day that penguins apparently have crazy teeth.  They have teeth on their tongues!!!

ACK!!!! TEETH ON THE TONGUE!!!!

 It's designed so that if they swallow live fish their mouths are designed to ensure that the fish make their way into their bellies!  Then he told me how male penguins search for a perfect rock and when they've found it, they give it to the female.  If the female accepts it then they mate for life.  He then gave me a rock and said that he had searched really hard, but this was the best rock he could find.  Of course I thought this was cute and accepted his rock. I totally didn't think anything of these stories since Chris is always telling me about random facts that he's learned.

So then he was all, "Great that was so easy!" Of course, I was like..."Wait a minute...this is just a practice rock.  But it's a great analogy since I know you've been searching hard for the perfect, REAL rock for me." He kept insisting, that no, this was my rock, but I apparently wasn't rising to his bait.

Suddenly he sat up and said, "Stand up."

I totally froze and instantly I just knew. I think I said something like, "Are you really doing this here?"

He got down on one knee, reached into his pants for the box, opened it up to show me and asked me to marry him.  Of course, I barely waited for him to finish his sentence before I said, "Yes!" Unfortunately I didn't realize there was a whole sweet speech and I totally missed out on it because I'm so darn impatient.  Now he's telling me it'll be our vows (which is irritating because I totally don't want to do original vows...oh well I might not have a choice because I really want to know what he was going to say!)

IMMEDIATELY AFTER CHRIS PROPOSED!

Cute story about the above picture...Chris asked a girl from a group of teenagers next to us to take the picture.  I guess he startled her when he went over, but when he explained things she was more than happy to take a picture.  Later, Chris kept hearing the girls tell other people the story about how we just got engaged - sweet :)

Did I cry?  Actually I didn't until about 10 minutes later when it hit me.  I think that since I've been waiting for this moment for so long I didn't really process it.  Chris said I just sat there in a daze for those 10 minutes just looking at him and the ring on my hand haha.  Then I was just really really excited :)

BASKING POST PROPOSAL WITH MY "PRACTICE ROCK"

WARNING: An excessive amount of ring pictures follows!

MY ROCKS

CHRIS + KRIS = ENGAGED!

 

I LOVE THIS PICTURE

THE OBLIGATORY RING ON HAND PICTURE ;p

(If you can believe it...I have more pictures.  I totally was having a photo shoot with my ring and just loving it haha)

Later I heard all about how I repeatedly kept foiling his plans.  First he wanted to propose at Sea Life Park by the penguins, but needed to go down there to try to set it up because they weren't returning his calls.  But then I asked if I could tag along that day.  He was trying to propose 6 months from my birthday, but something messed that up. Then when we were scooting around he wanted to climb down and propose on the rocks...but I kept driving off thinking we had only pulled over for cars to pass.  Then I was supposed to (like I normally would have) gotten really annoyed with the whole "this is the real rock" bit so that he could say, "well it's a good thing I came prepared with another rock."  Then I got too excited to hear the whole actual proposal and just said "Yes" right away haha. Oops.

We hung out at Sandy's for over an hour because I just didn't want to leave and end the experience. I texted my friends, called our families, but in the end we had to go, so we scooped up some of the sand for memories and decided to get back on the scooters for some Bubbie's mochi ice cream.  We got root beer, liliokoi, strawberry and dark chocolate (Strawberry mochi and dark chocolate chip ice cream), chocolate and peanut butter (Chocolate mochi and peanut butter ice cream), chocolate and mint (Chocolate mochi and mint ice cream) Yum!

ON MY SCOOTER AT SANDY'S

BUBBIE'S MOCHI ICE CREAM

Next Chris took me on a really cute little tour of his engagement journey.  We stopped off at where he got the center stone diamond.  He said that he realized that everything around our engagement had to do with scooters - he rented a scooter while he shopped for the stone and the ring and we got engaged while scootering around Honolulu!

WHERE CHRIS BOUGHT MY DIAMOND (THE ENGAGEMENT TOUR)

The whole thing does seem a little like kismet.  First, my bike was #21 and my lock was #13 - two of my most favorite numbers.  Then I was thinking about how June 11th is Kamehameha Day, a day to honor Kamehameha the Great who unified the Hawaiian islands.  Today marks the beginning of our official union of the Wong-Callistos! Then when we got home and he was showing me the ring on the website I realized that when I had given him my "list" of "likes/dislikes" for engagement rings I had included a picture of a different ring, but then later found this exact ring online and liked it more.  Without even knowing that, Chris literally picked out my dream setting!!!

CHRIS AND DIAMOND HEAD

SCOOTERING INTO THE SUNSET

At the point above in the two pictures, we had stopped and laughed about how we were "scootering off into the sunset."  I thought it was so perfect so I stopped and took the two pictures you see above.  As I blog I'm just now ALSO realizing the irony that I took a picture of DIAMOND Head at sunset on our engagement day...see?  Kismet!

We finished off the night by celebrating...not at some fancy restaurant, but with some good hearty wings (and beer/peach Schnapps iced tea and pretzels) at Buffalo Wild Wings.

CELEBRATING

So I've always been curious about how long he'd take and it's been 5 years, 8 months and 2 days.  Or:

• 179,020,800 seconds
• 2,983,680 minutes
• 49,728 hours
• 296 weeks 
• 2072 days

In the end, it was the best day ever.  Seriously, riding a scooter is the most fun new thing I've done in a long time and on top of it, to get engaged? In Hawai'i? Perfect.  I played the victim for a long time, but in the end I have to say I really am so lucky to have the most amazing fiancée (WHOA! Now imagine that like Joey would say on Blossom haha, if you can't here's one example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHvKR1tltGc).  He put a lot of thought into it and it went off beautifully despite all my best (unintentional) efforts to ruin it hahaha