Up, Up & Away!
by Cielo Bulos
As a gift for his 30th birthday, I treated JP to a parasail ride at
Shangri-La Mactan. Little did I know that he had other plans to make
the thrilling ride extra special.
When we were up 150 to 250 meters
high above sea level, we started reminiscing about how we met and how
the Lord has been so good to us with all the confirmations. Then JP
said, "Since we are here already... I want to ask you something" and
got a small box from his right pocket. I was so happy to see the brand
written on the box: Hearts and Arrows. Just what I wanted! Then for
some reason, we were abruptly lifted up from 250 to 350 meters high!
JP suddenly felt like throwing up. His eyes were watery. He was
turning red... and as he was about to throw up... HE DROPPED THE BOX!
He panicked. I panicked! I was caught in between comforting him
because he was feeling sick and detaching myself from the parasail to
dive into the water and look for the ring box!
As I was about to burst
into tears.. he said, "You think I'm that stupid to drop the ring?" and got the ring that was tied to his shorts strings. I said, "Ah!
Don't do that to me again!" and he said, "Of course, this is your
first and last chance" and I said "You haven't even asked me
anything!" so he said, "Will you marry me?" and without a doubt I
replied, "YES!"
The view was clearly a present from God on our engagement. We knew He
was there smiling at us all along. He definitely has a sense of humor
by making JP's drama more convincing because JP only planned to
pretend to be sick but he really felt like throwing up when we were
lifted up abruptly. His drama became so real! It's a story that never
fails to amaze our friends and family.
It's also a story nice to
retell over and over again until we have our kids and grandchildren. "How romantic and creative our dad/grandpa was!"
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About the couple: Cielo, a former W@Wie, has been formally engaged to JP in Cebu on April 1, 2006. They are planning to tie-the-knot in the same island resort in Mactan on 07-07-07.
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