Visited Tam & JJ for new years.



- posted by Drew / Meghan @ 8:28 AM 1 comments

 
Thanksgiving + Engagement
Meghan and I have been planning to visit her parent's house over Thanksgiving for some time now, but I had a secret Meghan was not aware of.

One month ago, at Casey & Rob's wedding, I asked Meghan's parent's permission for her hand in marriage. (this was only possible during a short window when Meghan went to the bathroom during the reception--I snuck over and asked). Since then, I have been researching what type ring Meghan would like, and over the weekend prior to Thanksgiving, I found it.

I knew I had to come up with a special way to propose, but I also wanted her family to be somewhat involved. Since Meghan's her grandmother (Nanny--dad's mom), aunt, and uncle would be visiting over thanksgiving as well, I wanted to ask as soon as possible so they would be involved After devising a plan, I called Meg's sister Katelin, and asked her to help scheme with me.

The plan was for Kate, Meg, & I to go "geocaching", which is basically searching for little treasures in the woods. Luckily, after I thought of the plan, Meg asked me if I would want to go 'geocaching' while we were down there! Perfect.

Unfortunately, when we arrived, Meghan felt that the geocaching trip could wait until the weekend, for she wanted to spend as much time with Nanny before they left. I needed to force the trip without her suspecting, but luckily Kate was able assist in urging Meghan.

While Meg took a preparatory nap, I drove over to the park, and found a desirable spot which overlooked a nearby stream on a small cliff. There, I hid a box adjacent to a nearby tree under some twigs and a few layers of pine straw—looking back now, I should have omitted a few layers of pine straw because the box was nearly perfectly camouflaged. Unfortunately, I couldn’t stop there, because the entrance to the hiking path had been trashed by nearby construction workers and teenagers. There were dozens of beer bottles and fast food backs strewn across entrance. As a remedy, I grabbed as many bottles as I could carry and ran loads back and forth to the dumpster.

When Kate, Meg, and I arrived at the park, I was happy to see that my cleaning job had been a success—Meghan’s eyebrows did not once furrow. Katelin brought her purse since she would be taking pictures, yet she couldn’t let Meghan know that she had my camera. After Katelin withstood Meghan’s teasing for bringing a purse on a geocaching trip and I finished pretending to obtain my satellite signal and compass reading, we were off. I started counting my pace count for every step we took as yet another guise to keep Meghan from catching on, and soon enough we were at the tree overseeing the stream.

To my dismay, Meghan walked right over the hidden box not once, but three times. I tried to get another (fake) satellite reading and point her back to the tree, but she told me that “there aren’t 5 meters to go in that direction”. (oops, I should have said 3). After she attempted to scale a cliff to find this box, I urged her back to the tree once again, and luckily this time she stumbled across it.

As I went down on one knee, she was walking past me to show Kate how weird it was that someone would hide a Jewelry box. I had to tug on her leg to stop and look at me, but she got the hint when I said “Meghan, I love you, I want to spend the rest of my life with you. Will you marry me?” She was very surprised, but immediately said “Yes, of course”. Thanks to Kate, we have several good pictures of the event.
- posted by Drew / Meghan @ 10:27 AM 3 comments

 
NC weekend!
Last weekend I went to NC for an eventful time--Tam's Bday celebration, James' welcome home ceremony, rock climbing, and kayaking. Take a look at the pictures of the kayak trip at http://www.mindfazr.com/kayak . Unfortunately Meghan was unable to go as she was hosting a huge GD picnic, but she would have loved it.

Meghan and I saw Batman Begins last night. I thought it ruled, they made sure to provide the time needed to explain emotions/thoughts to forge the Bat out of Bruce.

We are in for another eventful weekend. Tomorrow Meg and I have our next Kayaking class, then we'll be traveling down in the motor home with my parents to annapolis, which will be our staging point for a trip to the beach on sunday. Monday Meg & I will drive back early so we can make it to the Nats game @ 1pm. Fun Fun!
- posted by Drew / Meghan @ 5:50 AM 0 comments

 
Shirlington
Meghan and I visited Shirlington last night and ate at the brewery. They had quite a good selection of beers--we will be going back and trying out the sampler, which allows you to taste 5 of the beers.
- posted by Drew / Meghan @ 10:15 AM 0 comments

 
Star Wars!!
Meghan and Drew, the star wars nerds!

When news reached us of the final star wars coming out, we had to prepare. We immediately watched the old trilogy, which a friend happened to have. Now, we didn't just watch the movies and be done with it, but we then watched the movies again with the audio commentary, then watched the attached documentary. Time spent on origional trilogy = 15 hours

We then bought star wars episode I and II to prepare. Time spent = 5 hours

then finally, after being fully dorkified, we went to the theater and saw episode III. Time spent 2.5 hours. Around 23 hours of star wars altogether!

The last episode was excellent. It needed to be dark and sinister in order to lead into episode 4. I am just so sad that the saga has ended.
- posted by Drew / Meghan @ 10:23 AM 0 comments

 
Bankok 57
We walked down the block tonight for some Thai at Bankok 57. So far it is the best Thai food I have had.

Meghan found the courage in herself to try Thai food for her first time--she had Pad Thai and really enjoyed it.
- posted by Drew / Meghan @ 5:41 AM 0 comments

 
Refurnished
Meghans' apartment is now completely refurnished, thanks to her sister and mother coming in for a week long visit. I will take pics and update them soon.
- posted by Drew / Meghan @ 5:44 AM 0 comments

 
Refurnished
Meghans' apartment is now completely refurnished, thanks to her sister and mother coming in for a week long visit. I will take pics and update them soon.
- posted by Drew / Meghan @ 5:44 AM 0 comments