Top 20 Moments of my 20′s: #10

It didn’t take long to realize I was going to marry Kristan.  We were friends for a good while before we started dating, and by the time I talked her into actually going on a date with me…I was pretty much in love with her already.  In fact…now that I think about it, I may have actually told her I loved her before we were dating.

Thankfully that didn’t send her running.

When the time was right I found a ring and hashed a plan.

Every year a group of us take a beach trip.  That was the where.  I just had to figure out the “how”.  I don’t recall having a plan until we got there…which makes sense b/c what I came up with was contingent on the kindness of friends.

Several of us stayed up through the second night of the trip.  I remember walking up and down the beach at 2 in the morning with my good friend Josh…talking through what was about to go down.

At around 5 the guys all came down to the beach in front of the condo and started digging.  We (by “we” I mean “they” – somehow I didn’t carve a letter) dug out the words, “Kris – Marry Me” in huge letters in the sand.  They finished just in time for me to hustle up to the 6th floor condo Kristan was staying in where I woke her up to come see the sunrise from the balcony.

She stood against the railing looking over the sand and water.  I followed her out and got down on one knee.  It took her a solid minute (a long time) to notice the writing in the sand.

She turns to see me on my knee with the ring.  Thankfully, unlike agreeing to a first date, I didn’t have to talk her into this one.

The rest of the girls in the condo woke up and got some pics of the event.

For the life of me I can’t remember another moment of that trip – complete blur.