Thursday, August 6, 2009

TWO HOURS AND A HALF BEFORE THE PROPOSAL

I am posting this longer than a month after it happened, because I wanted Michelle and Mike to tell the story first!

Read under your own risk! I almost had a heart attack.

12:17 Mike is supposed to arrive in Mainz on platform 3 a/b (His train was delayed 25 minutes)

12:30 Michelle and Diane get to the train station and start looking for a train to Bingen.

12:30 Mike was suppose to be taking a train to Bingen on platform 11.

12:35 Michelle and Diane stand on platform 3 a/b (Diane tries to convince Michelle to get out of there, she thinks Mike’s train could be delayed  which it was!)

12:36 Michelle and Diane step out of the train station and look for a train on the internet.

12:42 Mike gets to Mainz, he arrived on platform 3 a/b

12:48 Michelle and Diane go back to platform 3 a/b to look for the train schedule

12:50 Michelle and Diane got on the train to Bingen, platform 11.

12:51 Mike takes a picture of the front of the hbf (train station, Michelle and Diane had left 11 minutes ago! They almost made it into the pic taken by Mike!!)

12:54 Diane is sitting by the window because she thinks that Mike’s train was delayed and it might be possible that he will get on the same train.

13:04 Mike was supposed to arrive in Bingen, but he has missed the train cause his other one was delayed!

13:17 Diane sees Mike walking towards the train and she panics.

13:17-13:18.5 Diane pulls out the worst story she has ever come up with. Her voice is breaking and she is literally shaking. She tells Michelle to come by the other side of the window and to look at a “gray wall” and says: if you go that way you will find this huge mall, they sell everything”… it is hard to convince Michelle to stand up after walking 3 hours with the huge backpacks! She does not want to get up (she obviously can see everything from where she is sitting so why would she get up!!!!  I couldn’t come with ANYTHING else! I was about to have a heart attack), so Diane raises her voice! Michelle finally stands up and goes to look at the “gray wall”. Diane is actually pointing at the “gray wall” but she is actually looking at Mike through the reflection on the glass!!! And thinks Michelle will see Mike through the glass too!) Mike is right behind them! Mike is asking a question to a guy outside the train.

13:19 Mike gets in the train one door farther up from where Michelle and Diane are sitting, Diane thanks God he doesn’t get in through the door right next to them.

13:19 Diane says: “Michelle I am going to the bathroom and looks for Mike. Diane finds Mike and pokes him from the back. He turns around, his face is priceless, he looks nervous, he is sweating, he says he just changed in a McDonnalds (Diane and Michelle had walked by the same McDonnald’s 20 min ago). Diane explains that they are in the same train and that he should seat farther up. Diane’s voice is still breaking… She tells Mike that in Bingen, Diane and Michelle would get off the train first, they would walk towards the city and he should walk towards the river. Diane goes back to where Michelle is sitting, she never made it to the bathroom!

13:30 the train leaves Mainz and Michelle, Mike and Diane are in the same train (This was not supposed to happen!!! Mike was supposed to be in Bingen already).

13:54 Michelle takes a picture of the backpacks on the seat

13:58 Diane takes a picture of Michelle being clueless of what it’s about to happen.

14:00 it starts pouring outside! Diane prays the whole way so that God would stop the rain.

14:08 The three musketeers get to Bingen. Diane hopes Mike realizes that HE needs to get off first because the steps to cross to the city and to the river are closer to his exit in the train. Mike is brilliant and smart, he gets off as soon as the train’s door opens, runs downstairs and stands by a wall peaking out to check on her, about to be, fiancĂ© (they haven’t seen each other for approximately one day!)

14:09 Michelle and Diane walk really slow towards the steps, they go downstairs, Diane sees Mike and points towards the river. Michelle and Diane walk towards the city. It is pouring outside!

14:19 Michelle and Diane are up in the Burg Klopp in Bingen, Diane makes a few videos of Michelle and she loves the fact that Michelle has not idea about anything! It stops raining so Diane says they should leave and walk to the river, and emphasizes the fact that they could come up here again later. Michelle wonders: “why would we come up here later?, it is quite the walk, it is uphill, it is kind of raining and we have huge backpacks!-->Diane is crazy!”

14:24 Diane tapes a video of Michelle walking under the rain saying a few words to Mike. Diane tells her that she will show it to Mike when she sees him (Michelle has no idea how soon this would be, but Diane knows that it would be in about 10 min!)

14:24-14:30 Diane makes Michelle walk fast: “work those legs up!” they are heading towards the Rhine river now! It has stopped raining. Mike has been sitting on a bench, under the rain, reading a newspaper waiting for his loved one. He is praying so that God would stop the rain, and that some people who have just stopped to see some flowers about 10 feet away from him would leave!

14:33 a minute until Michelle and Diane get to the Rhine, people looking at flowers by Mike leave, the rain stops!!! GOD IS AWESOME.

14:34 Diane and Michelle are standing in front of Mike’s bench. Diane says: “Michelle wait for me here” I am going to ask someone if we can cross the river in the ferry”. Diane has seen Mike on the bench with the newspaper, she points to Mike and waves as she is thinking: “I am done with the plan, it is your turn to take over and steal Michelle, I am about to collapse from excitement and anxiousness”

14:35-14:55 Mike comes from the back and says “Michelle”…… Diane tapes a video from where she is “asking the guy how to cross the river”
………….. 20 min go by…….. I can’t tell you what is going on, because I am sitting on another bench farther from where they are, looking at a castle. I meditate and thank God of how he has stopped the rain, the sun is shining now, and he has worked everything out in such a perfect way. He is just AWESOME! And as I sit on the bench, I think of how I should make this my last prank ever… Why not ending with this master piece, right? I sit on the bench for a while, I have a mix of feelings, I feel relieved that everything has worked out. I think of how much little sleep I had gotten all the past week from being too excited about this moment.

14:59 Mike and Michelle come find me, Michelle has WHAT!?? SHE’S GOT A RING ON HER LEFT HAND!!!

15:00 they all take pictures, they laugh, they tell the stories, the just engaged couple look like the happiest people I have ever seen in my entire laugh, they look like they have just won the lottery (I think they have won something more rewarding than just the lottery). I almost want to cry from excitement! I congrats the happy engaged couple and we walk along the Rhine river, across from the Germania statue and the Ruine Ehrenfels.

You might wonder how I put this together with the exact times. Well Mike was taking pictures, Michelle was taking pictures and I was taking pictures. All the cameras tell you the exact time the pics were taken so I have three folders open, Mike Michelle and my pictures are on my computer and I went back and checked on the time the pics were taken! I made sure the times on the cameras was the same, Michelle’s was an hour and 14 min behind Mike’s and my camera.
I hope you enjoyed the awesome story of Mike’s perfect brilliant proposing plan.
Congrats to you Mike and Michelle! I wish you the best in your lives.


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