After years of saying he would never get married, Abraham decided he would surprise Samantha with a proposal at the end of their Camino De Santiago backpacking trip. On day one in Lisbon, he began to worry that the cube shaped ring box in his backpack would be found by Sam. So he cleverly announced to all who would listen that for the remainder of the trip he would collect cube shaped cobble stones in his already overweight backpack. With so many cubes she would never find the ring! Day three of hiking he lost it. His back hurt, his shoulders were weak, he was very irritated. Sam began to wonder if she ever wanted to travel with Abraham again. She asked, “Why don’t you just get rid of those rocks?” He kept the rocks. The end of the hike finally came, they flew to Barcelona, and caught the flu. But Abraham wasn’t going to let this bug stop him from proposing at the Sagrada Familia as he planned. Stuffy and tired, they marched to the church. To his horror, the place was overrun by tourists! They couldn’t even get inside. Abraham was angry at these tourists and this tacky church trying to deny their love. He devised a new plan: he would propose at Park Güell. So he dragged his wheezing bride-to-be up a mountain to find that, again, it was overrun with tourists. Abraham discovered that Barcelona is a garbage city that only tries to suppress love at all costs. No matter, he devised a third plan! To which Sam responded, “Can we please go back to the hotel?” Abraham proposed back at home in San Francisco jet-lagged at 4am. Sam was very surprised and enthusiastically said yes. The cobble stone obsession suddenly made so much more sense. It was the perfect proposal. They celebrated their new engagement by eating soup and going back to sleep. They were happy but very ill.