Engaged at the Zoo

[Libby]

On June 27th I went to the zoo with 2 of my best friends and my boyfriend. I had a funny feeling about it but enjoyed getting to see all the animals. I has suspected that my boyfriend was going to propose to me but had kept my expectations low because I didn't want to get my hopes up. It had been over cast with scattered showers all morning and we had gone though half of the zoo and all the big cats where on the last half which are my favorite. We walked though to the tigers but their cage was under construction and they had the tigers separated because of fights. So we moved on to the clouded leopard which smelled bad and looked sad laying all alone. Then we came to the couger exhibit and the couger was no where to be seen. At this point we were running out of animals and I was convinced that all the blaring proposal signs were all in my head. We came to the flamingos and the sun started shining. There was this one that kept walking backwards with its head under the water. I was laughing and got a video of it. I looked around for Kasey, my boyfriend, cause I wanted a picture of us. I was going to take it but he told me told me don't worry Heather and Chris have it. Oh did they ever. He began telling me how much he loves me and how I am his world then gets down on one knee and asked me to marry me. He pulls out a blue box made out of legos (The Lego Movie was our first date) and sitting in the box is his moms ring that she had given to him a couple months before she died unexpectedly. I of course was so happy I said yes and of course immediately began to gloat because I was right. I had known he was going to propose. I had even given him the idea but never thought he would actually use it.
Kasey's mom gave him her ring on the one condition that he give it to me. She hated all his other girl friends but she loved me almost from day one and made me part of the family.
Ive always loved animals but never did I think they would me so much more to Kasey and I. The first time he told me he loved me was at a reptile expo he accidentally let it slip. And then propose to me at the zoo. Ive always dreamed that if my dog Buddy was still with us and capable if he could be the ring bearer. Kasey absolutely loves the idea. He even came up with the idea to have one of my other dogs, Mia, be the flower girl.
Im just so excited and happy to plan this wedding. We had to incorporate animals into it somehow. Otherwise it wouldn't be my wedding. It will still be a couple years before we actually get married but Im excited about the future.