peonygirl
Brilliant_Rock
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It actually happened on Friday afternoon, and I can't believe I'm only posting now! Oh well, blame it on excitment and midterms. 
On Friday afternoon Ian left a message on my cell phone telling me he was heading back to school to do some data analysis for his dissertation but that we should have dinner that night like we had informally planned the previous day. He also said that his lab phone was dead so I shouldn't bother calling, but that he would come over around 5:30 to pick me up. I suspected absolutely nothing at this point because he had told me the night before that the ring wasn't ready yet. When I got home, there was a sign on my door titled "An Engaging Hunt" with the following instructions on it:
"Four clues, four keys to summon the spell,
Four scrolls I say are hidden well.
Four will bind us, man and wife,
Four to begin a thrilling life.
Four to hold you, four to adore,
Four to champion your evermore.
THE CHALLENGE
Recover the clues and the numbers they hold,
Your diamond in carats I believe they unfold.
Arrange the digits in a manner most aesthetic,
Then hurry! Make haste! Be peripatetic!
To the address: http://XXXXXXXXXXXXX go,
The password I say, you really should know."
My first clue was also posted on the door under the poem. Of course at this point I was completely shocked and giddy with excitement! Although I had picked out the setting, I knew nothing about the center stone except that it was coming from Whiteflash.
When I opened the door, my whole apartment was sparkling clean (dishes washed, bed made, clothes put away, papers neatly stacked, etc) and my laptop was set to the url in which I was supposed to type the password. Then, I spent some time finding the four scrolls with the clues on them, which were hidden all over my apartment attached to objects that had been of symbolic significance in our relationship. All of the clues were adorable, clever little poems that alluded to personal quirks, inside jokes, etc. They were actually pretty challenging, and I was briefly worried that I wouldn't be able to figure some out! Each clue also had a number on it, and once I had the four numbers (4, 2, 1, and 3) it was pretty easy to unscramble them into my diamond's carat weight. Although 4.321 is probably just as aesthetic as 1.234, I figured my diamond wasn't going to be that big.
So then I typed in the password (got it on my first try!) and up pops a screen filled with peonies (my favorite flower obviously!) that says:
"Return to the place
Where eyes first met,
Where hearts first leapt.
There will I be
Awaiting my destiny."
I practically ran from my apartment toward the place where we first met, which is in the lobby of the grad school dorms about 3 mins away from where I now live. He wasn't there though, so I ran up 7 flights of stairs to his apartment. . . not there either. I ran down the stairs, confused, and was about to walk to the restaurant where we went on our first date when I spied him in the lobby. He was all dressed up and got down on one knee and asked me to marry him! it was so magical, I was just glowing and jumping up and down.
Turns out ever since he saw me type in the password (he was monitoring the url remotely) he had been hiding out in the elevator, trying to recreate the moment in which he first stepped out and we met for the first time. I guess I had foiled that plan though! Either way it was absolutely perfect and I was thrilled. Later in the evening we went to a fancy restaurant that I had been wanting to go to and we called our parents who were also thrilled.
On Friday afternoon Ian left a message on my cell phone telling me he was heading back to school to do some data analysis for his dissertation but that we should have dinner that night like we had informally planned the previous day. He also said that his lab phone was dead so I shouldn't bother calling, but that he would come over around 5:30 to pick me up. I suspected absolutely nothing at this point because he had told me the night before that the ring wasn't ready yet. When I got home, there was a sign on my door titled "An Engaging Hunt" with the following instructions on it:"Four clues, four keys to summon the spell,
Four scrolls I say are hidden well.
Four will bind us, man and wife,
Four to begin a thrilling life.
Four to hold you, four to adore,
Four to champion your evermore.
THE CHALLENGE
Recover the clues and the numbers they hold,
Your diamond in carats I believe they unfold.
Arrange the digits in a manner most aesthetic,
Then hurry! Make haste! Be peripatetic!
To the address: http://XXXXXXXXXXXXX go,
The password I say, you really should know."
My first clue was also posted on the door under the poem. Of course at this point I was completely shocked and giddy with excitement! Although I had picked out the setting, I knew nothing about the center stone except that it was coming from Whiteflash.
When I opened the door, my whole apartment was sparkling clean (dishes washed, bed made, clothes put away, papers neatly stacked, etc) and my laptop was set to the url in which I was supposed to type the password. Then, I spent some time finding the four scrolls with the clues on them, which were hidden all over my apartment attached to objects that had been of symbolic significance in our relationship. All of the clues were adorable, clever little poems that alluded to personal quirks, inside jokes, etc. They were actually pretty challenging, and I was briefly worried that I wouldn't be able to figure some out! Each clue also had a number on it, and once I had the four numbers (4, 2, 1, and 3) it was pretty easy to unscramble them into my diamond's carat weight. Although 4.321 is probably just as aesthetic as 1.234, I figured my diamond wasn't going to be that big.
So then I typed in the password (got it on my first try!) and up pops a screen filled with peonies (my favorite flower obviously!) that says:
"Return to the place
Where eyes first met,
Where hearts first leapt.
There will I be
Awaiting my destiny."
I practically ran from my apartment toward the place where we first met, which is in the lobby of the grad school dorms about 3 mins away from where I now live. He wasn't there though, so I ran up 7 flights of stairs to his apartment. . . not there either. I ran down the stairs, confused, and was about to walk to the restaurant where we went on our first date when I spied him in the lobby. He was all dressed up and got down on one knee and asked me to marry him! it was so magical, I was just glowing and jumping up and down.
Turns out ever since he saw me type in the password (he was monitoring the url remotely) he had been hiding out in the elevator, trying to recreate the moment in which he first stepped out and we met for the first time. I guess I had foiled that plan though! Either way it was absolutely perfect and I was thrilled. Later in the evening we went to a fancy restaurant that I had been wanting to go to and we called our parents who were also thrilled.
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