Over the next few years, we had countless adventures, from touring wine country, to hot air balloon rides, indoor skydiving, all-inclusive resorts in Cancun, and 7-day cruises. I knew I wanted Laurin to be my wife, but didn’t know how I wanted to propose. Then she ended up getting a job offer with a new company after finishing her accounting degree. She turned in her two weeks’ notice and her boss spent an hour telling her how she would never make it in accounting and completely degrading her. So when she called and told me this, I immediately went to her work, we packed up her office, called the human resource director and told them she would not be returning to a hostile workplace and started a 2-week road trip. I knew this was the opportunity where she would not see it coming, so I packed the ring I had ordered about 2 months before and we took off. We ended up in Niagara Falls where we had an amazing dinner. We were walking in front of the falls where I dropped to one knee and asked Laurin, ‘Can we keep the party going?’ She squealed with delight. I don’t think she was able to say anything comprehensible for about 10 minutes. We turned off our phones before we got to Canada, and had decided to not use them at all while we were there, so we spent the evening and next morning just enjoying each other’s company before we came back and started telling everyone!
