I thought while I was taking a well earned revision break (I have two more accountancy exams on the 7th and 9th of September). I would write about how I came to be engaged! to the wonderful Rachel Hubbard.
The weekend kicked off on the Friday night, Rach had returned from Newday and we'd planned to spend the Saturday at the beach, dropping Rach's brother back home and enjoying some rays. I'd made Rach a playlist which she appreciated and we listened to it on the journey down.
We awoke early on Saturday to hit the beach, not just any beach but Viking Bay, Rach's favourite beach and one of the prettiest beach's in the world!
Now I had planned the day, but I had to conceal the picnic in the back of the car with my towel. Now Rach had forgotten her towel and asked if I had mine. I somewhat skillfully (i may add) managed to avoid taking the towel down to the beach, and this meant I had to return to the car.
Coming back I returned with some added gifts, a picnic hamper, with Rach's favourite foods, some Rose wine, some flowers and a diary. However at this point Rach was still seated, so I used all my guile and asked if I could shake out the sand off of the towel (smooth!). Rach then asked if she could sit down, to which I replied, 'you may want to stay standing for this' at which point I got down on one knee and asked her to marry me, to which she thankfully said YES!!!
God has blessed us, we managed to get both the engagement ring and the wedding ring in the same day at a price in our budget!
We now also have a date 10th APRIL so save the date!!!
God is good!
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Sunday, 6 September 2009
Sunday, 1 March 2009
Les Miserables
It has been an inordinately long time since I last blogged, due mainly to life's increasing business of business.
Last week was mine and Rachel's 6 Month anniversary of dating each other. To celebrate this I took her to see Les Mis on Saturday night. It was a wonderful afternoon and eening filled with God's provision.
We headed to the station, where we had the romantic photo booth shots. I had just enough loose change to pay for this!
We caught the train and headed into London, we found the restaurant and were told we had a twenty minute wait for a table, which was fine and we had a beverage, when returning to get a table we found out that if we had been 10 minutes later we would have had anything from an hour wait to 2 hours!
We had a shared starter, a main and shared dessert, all with just enough time to leave and get to Les Mis on time. So we arrived at Les Mis at just the right time and were blown away by the amazing story of Jean Valjean. Now I don't want to spoil the story for those who haven't seen it as it is definitely worth going to. But it is a story of amazing love, mercy and grace against which stands the law and injustice. It had a spiritual thread running throughout and drew me closer to God.
We returned back to Sidcup and I walked my beautiful girlfriend home, and said goodnight and went to sleep with the sounds of Jean Valjean in my heADDDDDDDD!!!!!!! (that was me trying to sing at the end, doesn't really work on screen.)
Last week was mine and Rachel's 6 Month anniversary of dating each other. To celebrate this I took her to see Les Mis on Saturday night. It was a wonderful afternoon and eening filled with God's provision.
We headed to the station, where we had the romantic photo booth shots. I had just enough loose change to pay for this!
We caught the train and headed into London, we found the restaurant and were told we had a twenty minute wait for a table, which was fine and we had a beverage, when returning to get a table we found out that if we had been 10 minutes later we would have had anything from an hour wait to 2 hours!
We had a shared starter, a main and shared dessert, all with just enough time to leave and get to Les Mis on time. So we arrived at Les Mis at just the right time and were blown away by the amazing story of Jean Valjean. Now I don't want to spoil the story for those who haven't seen it as it is definitely worth going to. But it is a story of amazing love, mercy and grace against which stands the law and injustice. It had a spiritual thread running throughout and drew me closer to God.
We returned back to Sidcup and I walked my beautiful girlfriend home, and said goodnight and went to sleep with the sounds of Jean Valjean in my heADDDDDDDD!!!!!!! (that was me trying to sing at the end, doesn't really work on screen.)
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