Mendoza Proposal: It All Happened So Quickly…

I won’t divulge too many of the intimate details that led to my hysterical breakdown as a response to being proposed to (it was a ‘yes’ btw) but I will leak the following:

1.  Kip surprised me on our second-to-last day in Mendoza by telling me to pack my things at the hostel.  He had someone pick us up to take us to a wonderful little estancia called Club Tapiz for a day of indulgence, vineyard-side.  I’m a simple girl, with simple needs i.e. a massage, manicure, pedicure, poolside lunch service and AC.  Thankfully, Kip delivered.

2.  Presumably, any normal girl would assume a proposal if her boyfriend requests a candle-lit dinner outside, next to the vineyard.  Welp, cross me off the ‘normal girl’ list because that truly was not my assumption.  I waited 7 years, I just figured I’d have to wait and wait and wait some more-  after grad school, after starting some business, after kids, a dog, a house – yeah I was thinking that far ahead.

3.  No matter how you foresee your reaction to a situation like this, when that moment comes, you never really have a grasp and in my case, you totally lose it. Yet, through the uncontrollable sobs and Kip’s horrified stare, I managed to muster up a “YES, OF COURSE!”.

And in true psychotic girlfriend fashion (now fiancé), I waste no time sharing every detail of the wedding I had already planned a year in the making. In my defense, it’s been 7 years. SEVEN YEARS!  I’m pretty sure he wanted to run right then and there but we just laughed and decided to slow it down a sec, considering we just got engaged 5 minutes ago.

The rest of the night was spent celebrating and skyping the good news to family and friends!