This evening turned out to be truly magical for one young lady.
I arrived at the lake late this evening. It was cold and windy, and the sun was already down. I rigged up and began fishing my normal spots. With only a few people walking, the lake was very quiet.
The young man was already making his way towards that perfect spot. He had rehearsed the entire thing in his mind a hundred times for sure.
I was standing near the gazeebo. It was completely lit up like one of the storefronts on MainStreet at Disneyland during the Christmas holiday. With the night as clear as it was tonight, those lights shown clear and bright.
I looked up just in time to see a shooting star. And it didn't just streak across the sky. It split into smaller pieces as it burned, giving the affect of pixie dust being sprinkled over the gazeebo. It was quite a sight.
He walked into the center of the gazeebo with his arm around the young lady. They spoke briefly and I watched as he knelt on one knee. After a moment he stood and she held her hand out at arms length to admire the ring. They hugged and kissed, and took some 'just engaged' pictures with their cellphone cameras.
The full moon rose over the horizon. It was one of those moons that looks so big that it seems like someone pasted an oversized cut-out right onto the sky.
The perfectly decorated gazeebo, the shooting star, the full moon rising, and the ring she had been praying for. It was exactly the kind of evening she had probably fantasized about since she was a little girl. Walt Disney himself couldn't have imagineered a proposal that would have made her feel more like a princess than that young man did this evening.
A truly magical evening to be sure.
It seems that the only fantasy of the entire evening that didn't become reality was me actually catching a fish.
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