how it happened. (part 2)

so we left the gardens, and carly and mitch (ryan's cousin and her husband) had a room reserved for us at the latham hotel in georgetown. turns out ryan and mitch had discussed the engagement a day earlier, when we met mitch and their boys for the parade (it was the end of the cherry blossom festival here in DC...big parade...but back to more important things) we ended up getting stuck in 9awful) traffic, and I got out of the car with the boys so we could go to a bakery. ryan told mitch about his plans for the next day, and mitch asked him what the plans were after he popped the question. ryan didn't have any...

so as an engagement gift, carly and mitch arranged for the room at the hotel. ironically, this is the hotel my parents stayed at last week when they were out here visiting. never would have known it was even there...

so we got to the room, and a chilled bottle of wine was waiting for us. (thanks carly and mitch!!) ryan still had to call his dad, so he made that call, and then we decided it was time to get some food. so we walked about georgetown for a bit...nothing was really jumping out at us. we walked past a place advertising FRIED PB&J AND BANANA SANDWICHES!!! I was all for it, but ryan said that wasn't very romantic! ha

we settled on papa.razzi, an italian restaurant. we walk in and the maître d' says something along the lines of "I hope you are having a great day" and I of course blurt out, "we are, we just got engaged!!" (I was still wanting to shout it from the rooftop!!) the maître d' was so excited, and told the hostess to sit us at a "special table" because we were celebrating. we sit, our waitress comes over, we order drinks, she brings them to the table. at which point, the maître d' comes over and tells our waitress (marisa, by the way...we became friends) we are celebrating. she asks what, exactly, we are celebrating...and you know I couldn't resist telling someone else!! :)

she squealed (girls get much more excited than boys about this kind of thing) and said she wanted to hug us. turns out, she was having a crappy sunday, so she was glad we were sitting in her section. we chatted in between her serving her (much less exciting) tables, and she ended up bringing us tiramisu, and the maître d' brought us some champagne. (I could get used to this!!)

all in all, it was a great night...and we are so happy!!

let the planning begin!!!