More than once, i wondered, "when have they ever waited for wood to be delivered? The cottage is surrounded by trees!" 

 

Of course we need wood. It takes a year to chop and dry before you can use it. You can't just go out into the forest and get logs like that!

 

Everyone did a great job keeping it from me, I didn't suspect a thing. Daniel even made a special effort to throw me off.

 

I was trying to argue with her just to make sure she really didn't think of a potential for a proposal.
 

I remember being very nervous. I knew we were going to the cottage but I didn't really have a plan once we got there. I always knew that she wanted something exciting and elaborate, but I was too shy to make it into a public affair so I thought I would be more comfortable in a private place. Since it was a Sunday afternoon in June, we had the whole lake all to ourselves. 

 

The bugs were everywhere. I was pacing around by the lake running away from anything with wings and swatting off bugs as I sat and waited for him to prepare lunch in the cottage.

 

He walked down to the dock with a bouquet of flowers in one hand and lunch in the other. He must have been so nervous that he barely even handed me the flowers. Instead he asked me to fill a bucket with water and plopped them in it. And so we had lunch on the dock with a bouquet of flowers between us.

 

Angela has to get EVERYTHING documented, so I set down my phone to record the whole thing. Except when I finally leaned in to get down on one knee, I pretty much covered the whole view with my back. At least we got some good audio.

 

Daniel leaned in closer, I barely noticed that he was on one knee, because he went right on to ask for raspberries. Then proceeded to feed me raspberries