The proposal

We got engaged on 888 - August 8th, 2008- on the Riverwalk in San Antonio, Texas.

After spending an afternoon in New Braunfels, TX at Schlitterbahn (recognized by the Travel Channel as the #1 rated water park in the world!) we hurriedly drove the rest of the way down to San Antonio to make a dinner reservation at the Caliza Grille in the Westin on the Riverwalk.

After a quick shower, we raced along the Riverwalk, eventually making it to a tiny little island in the river known as Marriage Island with two little benches with hearts carved in them, and a giant, ancient tree towering over it. Stephen pretended like his feet hurt and took Cara onto the island to sit down for a minute on one of the benches. After getting Cara to look away for a second by pointing to the water behind her and going "what's that?", he proposed...

Legend says that couples who get married or engaged on Marriage Island will have a long, happy and prosperous marriage.

But the funny thing is earlier as we were racing to get to dinner Cara had put on new shoes and they were really bothering her so we had already stopped once on the way to dinner because of foot pain! Basically Cara tried to ruin it all by stealing Stephen's carefully planned yet lame excuse to get her onto the island.