We're so excited!

Rose was a resident advisor at Foothill Dorm as Jeff was moving into UC Berkeley as a freshman. They met through a mutual friend and stayed up nearly the whole night talking. Being new to the Bay, Jeff was not familiar with the BART system and booked a plane ticket home to Los Angeles for Thanksgiving morning before realizing he had no way to get to the airport. Rose drove him to SFO airport before dawn, which Jeff figured meant she liked him well enough.

On New Year's Eve we drove up to Tilden Park along Grizzly Peak, overlooking the whole of the Bay. Two minutes before midnight Jeff asked me to marry him as he didn't want to start the new decade without me by his side. I said "Of course yes"! Just as I responded the clock hit midnight, and everyone parked along the ridgeline started honking their horns and the fireworks started.