Humongous Announcement! Biggest ever!

Hello, Mark here.  It has been a long time since we have posted and it has been a busy few months, and we are happy to announce that we are officially engaged!  Now I know that this comes to no surprise to most of you (mostly because this post comes nearly two months after the big day), but we have been busy and frankly, tough.

The Ring!

So there it is, the ring.  All big, shiny and sparkly and matching my Ruth perfectly.  

As for what happened and how I asked her, we decided to follow Peruvian traditions and that meant that our parents would meet for the first time and I would ask her in front of both of our families.  Scary.  So on the 3rd of August, everybody met, I got nervous, Ruth got a ring, and everybody was stuffed.  

The table setting

As the night began, my dad made a speech in Spanish asking Ruth's dad his permission to allow me to ask Ruth to marry me.  Complicated.  So I then got down on one knee and proposed.  Afterwards, we all had champagne and then we sat down to a fantastic dinner made by Ruth's Mom.  For the appetizer, we had Causa de Pollo which is sort of chicken salad, sandwiched between spicy mashed potatoes.  For the main course, we had salmon, served with bell peppers and onions.  Finally, dessert was flan with caramel sauce.  Most excellent!  After that, we talked, everybody got tired, Ruth had a sparkly ring, and everybody went home.  The end.