Details, details….
What, a post titled with the Klingon word for success and a link to a picture isn’t enough for you? Okay, fine.
Last Saturday Peggy and I went to the zoo. We had been meaning to go to the zoo for a while, and it was a nice weekend, so we went. We went to the dolphin show. We saw the camels and the foofy antelope things. We saw the tigers (very cool, the tigers.)
The Minnesota zoo has a large, indoor, Asian Tropics section, with Malaysian sun bears, a komodo dragon, and a bunch of foofy birds that fly around you while you look at everything else. And, notably, gibbons.
We stopped in front of the gibbons, and I told Peggy about how cool these guys usually are. “They swing around from branch to branch, and it’s like, if you took water and made a monkey out of it, it would look like this.” But on Saturday they seemed pretty lethargic. We hovered in front of the gibbons for quite a while. Peggy thought I was waiting for them to start acting all foofy so I could take a picture, but really I was waiting for all of the people standing around us to clear out a bit.
Finally they did. I turned to Peggy and said “Well Peggy, I think it’s time for us to stop monkeying around.” Then I got down on one knee and pulled out the ring, and her eyes got about <————this————> big. I asked her to marry me, and she said yes. I put the ring on her finger, stood up and gave her a hug, and then I pulled out the hankerchief. (Single guys take note: bring a hankerchief.) She was totally surprised.
And that’s the story. We finished up the zoo tour by checking out the Minnesota themed wing of the zoo (with otters and beavers and wolverines and lynx and cougars and the like), and then we went back to see the tigers, and then we saw the bird show, and then we went back to her place, and I burned through well over half of a 300 minute phone card, calling people.
March 23rd, 2004 at 8:32 am
You are a bad-ass mother, John.
March 23rd, 2004 at 11:43 am
Devin says your wedding proposal was an “instant classic.” You’re a nut. :)
March 23rd, 2004 at 5:21 pm
Oooooh, now we can make all sorts of “monkey love” jokes!!!
Congrats again. We here in Maryland are quite thrilled for you.
March 23rd, 2004 at 11:57 pm
I remember the last time I saw the gibbons there. they were, um, all quite “romantic” with each other. John was there too, I wonder if they gave him ideas… (sorry I couldn’t help myself)
March 24th, 2004 at 6:32 am
Ha Corey, I don’t remember that. But I’ve been there a few times since the last time I went with you; a more recent memory had them flying around on the fake trees and vines.
This time around the only amorous animals were just some confused camels.
March 24th, 2004 at 1:47 pm
Awesome, I’ve never seen the gibbons, but you have much more reason to be joyful than they. Congratulations to you both. Peggy looks beautiful. God Bless.
March 27th, 2004 at 1:06 pm
Congrats John!!!
When’s the wedding?