We met while waiting for our take out orders at a local sushi restaurant. Rick began making small talk and by the time his order was ready he had asked for my phone number. It took him two months to reach out but it was worth the wait! For our first date he took me to dinner in Oakland and then to my first Golden State Warriors game.

Rick told me that his work was having a contest and the prize was a pair of tickets to a Warriors playoffs game. To enter the contest you had to submit a selfie with a Golden State landmark. Rick chose the Golden Gate Bridge and asked me to take a drive with him so we could get a picture to enter the contest. We arrived at Battery Spencer and it was such a clear day- no fog at all. I was feeling good about winning this contest. I pulled my phone out and started taking selfies of us with the bridge in the background. Once I got a few, I started checking them to see if any of them were good enough to submit to the contest. That's when I looked up and didn't see Rick. He was down on his knee, holding up a ring! He asked and I said yes! Little did I know he had been planning this all along and even had a photographer ready to capture the moment.