Evan & Carrie

August 21, 2004

The Proposal

Evan went to Carrie's house on Tuesday night May 18 th . We had plans to go to my favorite restaurant in Palo Alto , Plutos. Since we both hadn't exercised, we decided to walk there which turned about to play right into Evan's plan. Before leaving the house, Evan and I were making cookies and I should've picked up then that something was going on because of a few uncharacteristic things: he dropped the large bin of sugar on the floor and then he got egg shell in the cookie dough when he cracked them in (see, he is the master cookie maker).

Anyway, we started on our walk towards downtown Palo Alto from my house and cut through Stanford campus. We ended up in the beautiful Rodin sculpture gardens. While walking up I noticed a blanket on a bench out in the distance that had some rose petals on it and drinks but since I saw another couple walking by, I thought nothing of it. We proceeded to walk around and look at the sculptures. I found it funny that Evan was suddenly very interested in the sculptures and even commented to Evan that he was much more interested in the sculptures this time compared to one of our first dates when we went there earlier. Then, as we're walking up towards the bench with blankets, Evan alludes that he's got something in his pocket. Then I realize that the blankets, roses (pink), lemonade (my favorite), cookies and milk are for us. Evan sits me down on the bench, drops on his knee and asks me to marry him. I said yes!