September 27th, 2005 Trip to USA

So, a couple of months after our dream-like summer in Norway, Kristine came to visit the Benito Family in Houston. She was scheduled to arrive Friday the 23rd of September...for those of us in Houston...that was the day Hurricane Rita landed on...Houston...so flights were canceled. With a little help from Kristine's mother, Lisbeth, Kristine arrived the following Tuesday.
Well, we put her to work! We drove out to Beaumont and helped FEMA deliver water, hygienic pkgs, and food.





























we did have a good time!




So, next part of the trip, hmm, changed our lives. On October 8th, 2005, Juan proposed to Kristine! The story kinda goes like this...

Kristine loves airplanes, so Juan thought it would be awesome to propose while at the annual air show...maybe over the speakers at the event...that was the original plan anyways. We got there, and the first stand we get to this man see's Kristine's incredible beauty and we kid you not, proposed...









There was only one option...get rid of him!


















So Juan did what Juan had to do...






The speaker thing didn't work, announcers and all that, it just didn't feel right once I got there...so after the event, thinking downtown might have the romantic feeling I was looking for, ooops, wait nope...nothing there, nothing open on a Sat. evening, unbelievable...well, Juan had been to the Mercer Arboretum before and knew that it was a wooded area with trails, probably the closest to nature that you can get in Houston...


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Juan took Kristine on a walk, and we were about to sit down on some benches, when while Kristine was turning around, Juan knelt down, and asked Kristine to be his wife ( she said yes!).
After we calmed down, we took this picture...


















No ring (she loved Juan for who he was)...but it was coming!