Proposal at Freda's--Reliving our first date

This post has been so overdue! What can I say? It has been crazy busy! But before all the business. My now fiance, had to propose. We had talked about getting married for a while--but when the time actually comes, it was a surprise! Sure, Rafa had overdressed for the occasion, but I had seen him fancy before! October 5th, 2015 had been a crazy day for me already. Bad crazy. Emotionally drowning crazy. My car's battery had died that morning and I had called Rafa to help me out. That morning I also found out that we would not have a host home for our Brazil trip. I was preoccupied. We didn't know Portuguese and had to now plan a whole trip.  I cried in the car. Rafa was busy with the proposal final details and he still came. I had a shoulder to cry on. He knew that I needed him at that moment. He was there for me as he always is when these types of things happen. I got my car fixed and came home for the afternoon. We were going to celebrate our 22nd month's together! Rafa had chosen Freda's. This was the place where we had our first real date. I was hungry. Rafa had gotten the restaurant to have some beautiful roses. Picture the romantic scene: roses on the table, dim light, and candlelight! I was already feeling better.

 The romantic food would be spaghetti, but this was not the case, I was hungry! We ordered calamari, fish, and coconut shrimp. Rafa says he was a bit nervous, but I didn't get that vibe. Rafa took out a notebook and started evaluating our relationship. We do this on a quarterly basis. We talk about what we did (accomplishments, places visited, awards), positive things, and things to improve on. I was a bit surprised, because I'm usually the one who has everything written down. This time I did not. I was just listening to him and thinking about our past 3 months. I was having a good time-- "remember when we..." and he just took me back to re-live our past!

After dinner, I had to step out to the restroom. Rafa knew this of course. He knows me. When I came back. I saw him sitting on the table. Sometimes when I see him like that. I think about how lucky I am to have him be mine. I decided to play the restaurant's owner daughter. I approached him, introduced myself and asked him how the food was. He looked a bit taken aback, but played along. Said the food was great and service amazing. Then he said as he stood up: "I know that I just met you, but I have this feeling, I know I want to marry you." Then he kneeled and asked "Will you marry me?"

He proposed! 

 Now I was the one taken aback! I couldn't really speak. It all was happening so fast! I started to cry a bit as this moment was too emotional "Yes!" I replied back. One of Rafa's friends was taking pictures of us, families around us were clapping. 

It was too sweet. We walked out and his friend said we had to re-do the kneeling as his previous pictures had been blurred. We stepped outside and took a few more pictures.

Rafa kneels again and smiles as he knows what the answer will be again! I'm still in shock!

Let me show you my ring! I had to throw a punch at the camera guy!

Then his friend left and we had a driver take us back home. At home, we walked around my neighborhood, taking it all in. Thanking God for being so so good to us. I called my family to share the good news! And after that peaceful afternoon of October 5th, all the crazy would come! Don't take me wrong, the good type of crazy, the best type of crazy! The type of crazy that I wouldn't want to share with anyone else, but Rafa!