Our DC love story :)

I realized today that I didn't really say much about Jordan's visit, except to name the two surprises. SO! Of course, I can't help it, I just have to tell the story.

I arrived home late from the MCAT...about an hour after I expected. My housemate Jodi was in the kitchen making pasta. We went directly upstairs to Courtney's room to eat it together out of the pot. I, being the simple-minded college grad that I am, did not think anything of this. Why wouldn't we just eat in our room together out of the same container? Turns out it was a ploy to make sure that I wasn't downstairs when Jordan arrived! So we are just hanging out and then I decided to go to my room to Skype with Jordan. We start talking and his video wasn't working for some reason. Then I hear his voice start to echo. I thought someone else was logged in on my skype or something. He's saying something to me about "wouldn't it be awesome if I could just get on a plane early in the morning and then travel all day and then arrive at your house at seven to celebrate?"...I wasn't processing any of this because I was distracted by the echoing. And he wasn't processing anything I was saying because he was trying to walk upstairs.  Then all of a sudden my door opens. And Jordan walks in. And I just do NOT know what to do. I put my computer down and started saying "Oh my word", which was pretty much my mantra for the next 2 hours straight. Then I started crying and he gave me this giant bear hug. So awesome. I was just completely and utterly shocked. I don't know that I've ever been so surprised in my life.

Then I was able to take some time off of work on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, so we were able to have some nice hang out time. Monday after work we went to the Lincoln Memorial and Tuesday we hit up the frozen yogurt place down the street. Then on Wednesday we got engaged and my house hosted a potluck for the MVS support committee. Thursday we found this cute little bookstore/cafe type place to hang out for a couple of hours. Originally we were planning on going to the zoo, but between wanting a lazy afternoon and the rain, we never got around to it.  As far as the actual engagement goes--we were just hanging out in the backyard, talking and laughing. I said something to him about how perfect the week was. I was actually almost crying just thinking about it (Not sure what that's about, ha). So then he said something along the lines of "well not everything has been perfect, but there's one thing that could make it even better. Would you marry me?" There were some other nice things in there too. So CUTE, right?!  So I say, "OF COURSE I will Jordan!" And then we hugged, we kissed, and we high fived!  It was just awesome. I also threw in a couple more "Oh my word"s for good measure. Just lovely.

 I'll put up some pictures from the week/special day if Jordan ever emails them to me. Now that I've found my camera charger, I'll also try to snap some shots of the house so that you can see what the place is like!