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July 22, 2005
and you kissed me like you meant it
Monday night porch boy expressed disbelief that a whole year (plus a couple weeks) have gone by since our "are we going to make it in the long term, we're going to try to answer that by going camping far away together" yellowstone vacation.
Memories flooded back yesterday as I viewed someone else's pictures.
It is was so cold at night, too cold to sleep at some points. I had not anticipated the cold of the nights of the first weekend in July in the mountains.
It was the first (and only, I believe) 5 straight days where porch boy and I spent every moment together. Camping is a lot of fun. Porch boy took to it nicely. He built and played with the fire each night as I tried to sit in it to combat the cold. We cooked our meals. We went out a couple times, but mostly it was us and the fire.
we oooo'd and ahhhh's over the views, the animals, the springs. Yellowstone is truly a beautiful place. It is amazing that such different terrain exist relatively close together.
and during those five days, somewhere amoung the driving, the shivering, the people, and the buffalo, we knew. We knew that this was the person we wanted to spend the rest of our lives with - cooking, camping, cleaning, bickering, kissing; there was no one we'd rather be with. Though, really, it was (is) more than that for me. I have found the person i would rather be with than being by myself. Though for lots of people who don't like to be alone, this seems like less of a statement than the former one. For me, who would rather be alone than with the majority of people on this planet, this is the ultimate statement.
and when porch boy asked me to marry him two weeks ago, i said yes.
Posted by christina at July 22, 2005 3:58 PM
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Aw. :)
"I have found the person i would rather be with than being by myself." I'm still looking, but that's what I will have to find before I'm ready to get married too. When it's easier to be with someone else than to be alone, that's when I figure I'll know.
Posted by: Sarah at July 25, 2005 10:48 AM
WOOOHOOO!!!!! GO Christina!!!! Congratulations!!
Posted by: Rae at July 26, 2005 10:12 AM