+navaid Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 My girlfriend and I went caching today - well, I should say, a girlfriend came in, and fiancée came out! We flew to Arlington Airport. She got the GPS out and plugged the coordinates in. After some walking and a little bushwhacking, we found the cache without any problem. She pulled it out of its bag and signed the log. Then I handed her the rest of the trinkets and said, "Pick something you'd like to take home." I had slipped a ring into the cache while she was busy with the log. Luckily, that's the trinket she selected! Then I asked her if she'd marry me. She said yes. Hooray! Thanks for the cache - left ring, took fiancée, signed log. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LU...e0-29bbb3a2ce51 Quote Link to comment
+Fergus Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 Thats cool! Before I got married last year some of the local geocacher had a geoevent wedding shower for us. One local cacher tried to list my wedding as a geoevent, but the approvers would not let him. Quote Link to comment
+TrailGators Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 My girlfriend and I went caching today - well, I should say, a girlfriend came in, and fiancée came out! We flew to Arlington Airport. She got the GPS out and plugged the coordinates in. After some walking and a little bushwhacking, we found the cache without any problem. She pulled it out of its bag and signed the log. Then I handed her the rest of the trinkets and said, "Pick something you'd like to take home." I had slipped a ring into the cache while she was busy with the log. Luckily, that's the trinket she selected! Then I asked her if she'd marry me. She said yes. Hooray! Thanks for the cache - left ring, took fiancée, signed log. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LU...e0-29bbb3a2ce51 Congrats! Quote Link to comment
+Nochipra Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 Congrats That's so romantic, well done!!! Quote Link to comment
+Tank Hounds Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 What a great story! Congrats!!! Quote Link to comment
+H2OBob Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 AWWWW, How romantic! I hope you two have many long years of happy caching together. Quote Link to comment
+Zop Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 (edited) Reminds me on one I came across in the SF Bay Area... The Proposal Edited September 30, 2007 by Zop Quote Link to comment
+gh patriot Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 on sat the 22nd of sept I did something similar. early in the morning i planted a micro with an engagement ring in it in a bush under an overlook 150 ft above and overlooking Lake Michigan. Then I went to a cito event. After that i picked her up and we went to the state park near muskegon michigan and followed the pretty red arrow to the waypoint that i marked earlier when i hid the "cache". i told here there was a real cache there and let her find it. She was very happy to find the micro and the look on her face when she opened it up was priceless!!! She said "theres a ring in here" She poured the ring onto the palm of her hand and thats when she realized it was a real ring and not some toy that someone had left before. Her jaw dropped, she had no idea this was going to happen, and thats when i took the ring out of the palm of her and and got on a knee and asked her to marry me. She said yes right away (thanks naomi for not leaving me hanging) and was almost speechless for the next hour. The tears welling up in her eyes said it all. She didn't have to say a word. June 21 2008 is the big day. Seeing the joy in her eyes when i asked her to marry me made me the happiest man in the world. Quote Link to comment
+gh patriot Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 Oh and congratulations!!! Quote Link to comment
+Tsegi Mike and Desert Viking Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 Thats so sweet. Congratulations all around. Quote Link to comment
nonaeroterraqueous Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 early in the morning i planted a micro with an engagement ring in it in a bush under an overlook 150 ft above and overlooking Lake Michigan. See, now, you actually put the ring in the cache and walked away from it. I can't imagine how you managed that one. Was that real gold and diamond? 'Cause I don't think I could leave real gold and diamond, bought with my own money, on the ground with the hope that it would still be there when I got back. Congratulations, by the way. Quote Link to comment
+OEnavigators Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 How incredible! That is a great story and we offer our congratulations on your engagement. Now it's time to arrange for that ammo can wedding cake. Quote Link to comment
+Snake & Rooster Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 What a great story you now have to share! Congratulations to the both of you. Quote Link to comment
+DocDiTTo Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 Congrats!!! It would have been quite disappointing had she picked a McToy over the ring, but from the looks of the picture there wasn't much chance of that happening! Glad your plan worked out well! When I got engaged, there was no such thing as geocaching. But I returned to the spot where I popped the question and put a cache there earlier this year. It'll always be a special place for my wife and I, just like that cache will always be a special place for you two. Congrats again!! Quote Link to comment
+OzGuff Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 But did she trade up? Quote Link to comment
+tsunrisebey Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 Congrat's, how sweet! ~tsun Quote Link to comment
+sseegars Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 Congatulations! Luckily some of us get to have signifigant others who love to do what we do. Very cool idea. Hope you have a long and happy life together. Quote Link to comment
nonaeroterraqueous Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 How incredible! That is a great story and we offer our congratulations on your engagement. Now it's time to arrange for that ammo can wedding cake. You know, it might be possible. You could use that ammo can like a dutch oven. You'd have to take out the rubber gasket first, though. By the way, ever had a campfire-cooked peach cobbler from a dutch oven? Two boxes of dry batter and two sticks of butter topped with two large cans of pie filling, topped with two more boxes of dry batter and two sticks of butter; drop it in the fire and shovel coals on it; sing campfire songs until it's done, then take it out and eat it while it's hot. You'll be burning-hot on the inside and freezing-cold on the outside. Then you go to bed and pray like crazy that you don't die of a heart attack. Great memories. Quote Link to comment
+Hockeyhick Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 AWESOME! Ain't it good to be in love! I proposed center-ice at our local minor-league hockey game...(pre-planned participation in an on-ice game in between periods) It took a lot to get her down there! Here's to many great times ahead!! Quote Link to comment
+HaLiJuSaPa Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 Nice touch, congrats! If geocaching were invited when I proposed (1997), I might have done something like that (then again, didn't get into it until 2005 and it was the wife's side of the family I learned of caching from.....). But again, cool! Quote Link to comment
+navaid Posted September 30, 2007 Author Share Posted September 30, 2007 Thanks, everyone, for your well-wishing! My girlfriend -- no, wait, fiancee -- and I have enjoyed reading them. You're right, I am lucky to have found someone who is so willing to go on adventures (geocaching and otherwise) with me. Hope to see you at many caches in the future! Quote Link to comment
+SUp3rFM & Cruella Posted October 1, 2007 Share Posted October 1, 2007 Uhhhhhh! Congratulations! Best of luck to you. Quote Link to comment
+uminski Posted October 1, 2007 Share Posted October 1, 2007 Uhhhhhh! Congratulations! Best of luck to you. SUPER EXCELLENT Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted October 1, 2007 Share Posted October 1, 2007 Good thing she picked out the ring or you would have had to go with Plan B. Quote Link to comment
GPS-Hermit Posted October 1, 2007 Share Posted October 1, 2007 If everybody would trade UP like that - we would really have a time. Congrats - but don't clean your ears with her cars keys. Quote Link to comment
+nekom Posted October 1, 2007 Share Posted October 1, 2007 Well, that's ONE way to do it. I guess that'll be a great story for your grandkids some day. Best of luck and all that. Quote Link to comment
+3Bobs Posted October 1, 2007 Share Posted October 1, 2007 I will definitely need to go to that cache now. How neat. Congratulations! Quote Link to comment
Discovery Scout Posted October 2, 2007 Share Posted October 2, 2007 That is a great story. Congrats!! Quote Link to comment
+gh patriot Posted October 2, 2007 Share Posted October 2, 2007 early in the morning i planted a micro with an engagement ring in it in a bush under an overlook 150 ft above and overlooking Lake Michigan. See, now, you actually put the ring in the cache and walked away from it. I can't imagine how you managed that one. Was that real gold and diamond? 'Cause I don't think I could leave real gold and diamond, bought with my own money, on the ground with the hope that it would still be there when I got back. Congratulations, by the way. It was the real deal allright. I was a bit nervous leaving it out there but i figured i had some experience hiding caches that were kinda tough to find so i took the chance. The chance was worth it when i saw the look on her face. Quote Link to comment
+Artcollide Posted October 2, 2007 Share Posted October 2, 2007 Congratulations! That's so romantic. Are there any single guys like you in Texas? Quote Link to comment
+paleolith Posted October 3, 2007 Share Posted October 3, 2007 Another cache with a similar theme is The Chick. The cache actually contains a large bag of very cheap rings. I took one for my wife and a couple to move to other caches. Edward Quote Link to comment
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