Friday, March 16

Friday, March 16

Taylor came to pick me up at 2pm to head to Ft. Worth. We were making good time until we hit Edmond. It took us over an hour and a half to get from Waterloo Road to south of Norman. If you've ever been sitting in stand-still traffic on the I-35 interchange.... you know our frustration! After we got south of Norman, we were on our way........until we got to Marietta. The highway department is doing road construction! We were once again in stand-still traffic. This time we were going approximately 5mph for over two hours. We finally got to Ft. Worth about 9pm and headed to find our hotel. We checked in to the Omni Hotel and went to change clothes for dinner. Taylor wanted to take me to eat at the Reata. We ate engagement dinner with Katherine and Spencer on the roof of the Reata 3 years ago. We were so excited about going back to the roof! Once we got to the restaurant we found out that the roof was closed until April. We ate inside and had a wonderful time! After we ate we decided to take a walk before going back to the hotel. Taylor wanted to find a park but I was having no part of it! It was 10:30 on a Friday night in a downtown of a strange city.... I was not going to look for a park! We found a small park with a pretty wishing well fountain. I saw a sign that said   fORTth  as a mix or letters for the city. On top of this sign was a panther. I was yacking on an on about the fact that the animal they chose to represent Ft. Worth was a panther!!!!! As I am talking about the stupid panther Taylor is reaching in his jacket pocket to get the ring box. He told me to close my eyes and turn around. When I turned around he was on his knee and asked me if I would marry him. My first response was to cover my mouth and then say...'are you sure? are you sure? are you sure?' I eventually got around to saying ...'yes!!!!' Once we collected ourselves we walked back to the hotel bar and ordered a cocktail. We had a couple across from us take our picture!!

Taylor: The couple that took this photo was unaware of our recent engagement. We sat there smiling and laughing with each other throughout the evening, and then decided to go someplace quieter so we could visit. The band that was playing was really loud. As we started to leave we were interrupted by that same couple, and they wanted to know if we had just gotten engaged. They had noticed that we were very excited, and they caught us starring all evening at Laura's ring!!!