Otter Squad Posted September 23, 2004 Share Posted September 23, 2004 Tom and I have been geocaching for about 2 years now and absolutely love it. On September 4, 2004 it took on a whole new meaning. We have been dating for 4 and half years now and each summer we go camping with his family to a private lake. You have to either own a beat up truck or four-wheeler to get in there, so we always enjoy a weekend to ourselves. It's the most perfect place in the world to spend a vacation and we look forward to it every year. Tom and I went to leave on Friday the 3rd and he asked if I had noticed where someone had put a geocache lately. I hadn't of course and he showed me "Rainbows End" which happened to be located right where we were going camping. I was furious that someone had put a cache there, thinking so many people would come across "our spot" now. He had to listen to me go on about this for the rest of the night and into the next morning. We decided to find the cache Saturday the 4th in the hopes of being first finders. I was looking forward to trading the batteries that were in the cache because my book light had gone out the night before. We head down by the lake and I find the cache, sign the log book, and start to look through the items to trade. The last thing I find in the cache is a box wrapped in tissue paper, inside the box was not the batteries I was looking for, but instead an engagement ring! Tom got down on his knee and asked me to marry him, I of course said yes and our wedding is to be next October 8th. He had been planning this for months, trying to find the best way to pull this off. His orginal plan involved having a fellow geocacher in our area create a real cache listed on the site, but then make a fake one that would have the ring in it nearby so I would never know the difference. Well because the cache site is on DEC property Tom had to get a little creative. Being the computer whiz that he is, he copied the looks of the geocaching.com website and created a fake cache page on his computer to show me before we left. He ended up having to tell his parents (who were camping with us) because he needed their help hiding the cache before we arrived. That Friday before I got home from work Tom went and asked my parents permission, while his parents left for camp and hid the cache. I was totally surprised and I still can't believe it happened! It proves a point that you can find anything in a geocache! Quote Link to comment
+greyhounder Posted September 23, 2004 Share Posted September 23, 2004 Congratulations! What did you trade for the ring? (kidding!) Bec Quote Link to comment
+Anonymous' Posted September 23, 2004 Share Posted September 23, 2004 Congratulations. Quote Link to comment
+OzarksJim Posted September 23, 2004 Share Posted September 23, 2004 Congratulations!!! That's an awesome story! Quote Link to comment
+PeachyPA Posted September 23, 2004 Share Posted September 23, 2004 Awwwwww. That's really cute! Congratulations and many happy trails! Quote Link to comment
+RainbowCache Posted September 23, 2004 Share Posted September 23, 2004 Awesome! Congratulations! Quote Link to comment
+Mickey225 Posted September 23, 2004 Share Posted September 23, 2004 That's GREAT!!! Congratulations! Quote Link to comment
+Cave Troll and Eeyore Posted September 24, 2004 Share Posted September 24, 2004 Thats fantastic We wish you both eternal happiness for your forth coming marriage Quote Link to comment
+Smitherington Posted September 25, 2004 Share Posted September 25, 2004 I add my congratulations. Very nice story. Quote Link to comment
+BadAndy Posted September 26, 2004 Share Posted September 26, 2004 Logbook was dry when we found it, but got water spots while we logged in. Left boyfriend, took fiance. Quote Link to comment
+IV_Warrior Posted September 26, 2004 Share Posted September 26, 2004 Congratulations! What did you trade for the ring? (kidding!) Bec Freedom? Quote Link to comment
+Mickey225 Posted September 26, 2004 Share Posted September 26, 2004 Logbook was dry when we found it, but got water spots while we logged in. Left boyfriend, took fiance. That's cute... I like that!!! Quote Link to comment
+evergreenhiker! Posted September 28, 2004 Share Posted September 28, 2004 Wow! Great story and congrats!!!! Quote Link to comment
+WISearchers Posted October 1, 2004 Share Posted October 1, 2004 Great Story!!! Congratulations!! Hope you have a great life! Now you have to incorporate caching into your wedding, I hope you know!! LOL I did something similar too and it turned out great as well. If anybody is interested, read about it on our profile: WISearchers Profile Picture of us caching right after the wedding in Sanibel Island, FL Take care, WISearchers Quote Link to comment
+Team Picharkin Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 That's GREAT! I'm about to do the same thing with my girlfriend/geocaching partner! I thought that it would be an original idea, but looks like geocachers think alike! congratulations! Quote Link to comment
+Planet Posted October 13, 2004 Share Posted October 13, 2004 That's GREAT! I'm about to do the same thing with my girlfriend/geocaching partner! I thought that it would be an original idea, but looks like geocachers think alike! congratulations! Uh oh! I sure hope she doesn't read the forums!! Quote Link to comment
+YuccaPatrol Posted October 13, 2004 Share Posted October 13, 2004 I love this idea. My GF and I are looking forward to getting engaged and I hope she is reading these forums. It might be a couple months until we make it official, but if she reads this, I can expect to have her eagerly come along on any unusual micro cache hunt for the next few months! Quote Link to comment
+Geo Ho Posted October 26, 2004 Share Posted October 26, 2004 What a great story! Congratulations. Better lovin' thru Geocaching! Happy caching and stuff! Quote Link to comment
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