We'd known each other for a couple years, seeing each other at social gatherings (mostly musical). Then we decided to hang out just us two for the first time. He took me to some railroad tracks where we laid silently on them looking at the stars with him arm around me. I was smitten from that casual hang out on. He asked me to be his girlfriend at the end of August of that year. On our two year anniversary, we celebrated by going to Round One to play fun games together, then a hibachi restaurant because I loved that. After that he took me to a railroad tracks bridge with sand underneath and he said "what does that say?" With me in front of him so when I read what he'd written in the sand then turned around, he was holding a ring and had set up a bottle of wine and my favorite flower (blue hydrangea) In a small vase. I was so shocked! I immediately said yes and threw my wine glass in ecstasy.