One day an email came into my work inbox from a bearded football coach in Detroit Michigan named Matt Burke. Matt had seen our charity story about a family whom we had built a new home for in Royal Oak, just around the corner from him, and he was offering to take the family to a Lions practice and game. As a long time football fan from Michigan, I quickly asked my boss, hey do you think we could go?! A few weeks later we spent a memorable weekend celebrating an amazing family and realizing this was the start of something pretty exciting!

Matt and I have always loved to travel together and so it makes sense that our biggest adventure together would begin in one of our favorite places in the world, Africa! Matt and I fell in love with Africa two years ago on our first trip and it was shortly after returning that the idea to go back again was in motion. This time we went to Uganda to hike in the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest to see Mountain Gorillas. After our second day of hiking to see gorillas, we decided to go back into the forest in the afternoon to go on a waterfall hike. It was our last day of vacation and a proposal was far from my mind as Matt knelt down next to a waterfall and asked me to marry him. It's the best surprise I've ever had!