Made it home fine from Anchorage. Feels weird to not be working anymore, although I start back at my normal job again on Monday. Definitely a great internship experience and an organization I’d love to work for again.

Only one of my suitcases made it in with me on my connecting flight from Seattle, but it was home again before 18 hours had passed. Horizon was great about taking care of things and getting it back.

Headed out to the coast with TheBoy on Monday. Stopped at Nye Beach, one of the places he took me on our first date. We had packed a picnic so we could spend some time on the beach in the sun and the sand and after we ate we were both digging in the sand, talking about how when I was a kid I thought all sandy beaches had buried treasure [hey, we don’t have many sandy beaches in Maine!] A few minutes later TheBoy was digging and I asked him if he was finding me treasure. His response to this was “Not unless your idea of treasure is an ant.” Of course I poo-pooed the ant, because it wasn’t shiny and began digging a little hole of my own. Next thing I know he was asking “well, then how about this?” and i turned to find a really lovely white gold claddagh ring sparkling up at me. Then he asked if I would marry him and of course I said yes. We’re going on Monday to meet with a jeweler to design my permanent engagement ring, I’m pretty non-traditional and we didn’t shop beforehand together at all so we decided this would be the easiest and least stressful way to get a ring that is not ugly. Who knew that wanting something that was not yellow-gold or a diamond would make me so difficult. No solid plans for the wedding yet, will keep things updating as time moves on.