The 25th Floor Restaurant in Sydney, Australia
She Said:
Two weeks ago, Brett found out he had to take a last-minute trip to Australia to get a visa for his new job, and asked me to come with him! I of course jumped at the chance.
We decided to spend our last night in the city at a fancy restaurant, so Brett made reservations at a restaurant that was listed as Sydney's 2nd most romantic restaurant (the most romantic restaurant was booked up until 9pm), The 25th Floor.
We got all fancied up, and headed out to King's Cross.
The first sign that this restaurant was a bit cheesy was that it was a hotel restaurant... and both Brett and I agree that hotel restaurants are usually pretty dicey. Also, when he called to make reservations, he was put through to ROOM SERVICE! Ouch.
But, on the 25th floor in the heart of the city, the views would be priceless. And they were!
We got there a bit early, 6.30 or so, so we went to the bar for some beers.
Brett immediately apologized for the cheesiness of the place... stark white walls, gaudy nasty carpet, scattered Christmas Decorations (think a string of blue Christmas lights that stops half way across the wall, cause they ran out...) but I just laughed!
I told him that we could have fun in a cardboard box, and how it was kind of ironic ... we visit some of the most classy, trendy, hip and awesome restaurants in Seattle on a weekly basis, but when we go to Sydney, he takes me here... priceless!
We finally get to our seats and the view is great.
We order some wine and gnocchi as an appetizer, and the seafood platter for two as our main... we sat back and sipped our wine, laughing and people watching at some fun characters sitting next to us (one guy was actually wearing full leiderhosen garb!).
The food was amazing, the wine was amazing. Advice, though, if you order the seafood platter, do NOT order an appetizer or eat the bread! We were full before the main course even arrived!
We're finishing up and talking about heading down to The Rocks for a mini pub crawl. I'm feeling the affects of the wine, and become cheesy lovey Mandy, so I say to Brett, "I've never loved anyone more than I love you right now..."
He sees his opportunity and jumps at it. He starts to scoot his chair towards mine and asks, "Really? Do you want to be with me forever?"
"Of course i do, you nutter," i reply... We often ask each other this so it's nothing out of the ordinary. What IS out of the ordinary is Brett digging around in his jeans pocket while asking me that...
And then, he pulled out the most beautiful ring I've ever seen in my entire life. Holding it up in front of me, with the lights of Sydney twinkling in the background, and leiderhosen guy looking on with a huge toothless smile, Brett says, "Will you wear this and be with me forever?"
Speechless, literally speechless, my head spins and my heart swells.
Needless to say, this was the best Date Night ever!
Two weeks ago, Brett found out he had to take a last-minute trip to Australia to get a visa for his new job, and asked me to come with him! I of course jumped at the chance.
We decided to spend our last night in the city at a fancy restaurant, so Brett made reservations at a restaurant that was listed as Sydney's 2nd most romantic restaurant (the most romantic restaurant was booked up until 9pm), The 25th Floor.We got all fancied up, and headed out to King's Cross.
The first sign that this restaurant was a bit cheesy was that it was a hotel restaurant... and both Brett and I agree that hotel restaurants are usually pretty dicey. Also, when he called to make reservations, he was put through to ROOM SERVICE! Ouch.
But, on the 25th floor in the heart of the city, the views would be priceless. And they were!
We got there a bit early, 6.30 or so, so we went to the bar for some beers.Brett immediately apologized for the cheesiness of the place... stark white walls, gaudy nasty carpet, scattered Christmas Decorations (think a string of blue Christmas lights that stops half way across the wall, cause they ran out...) but I just laughed!
I told him that we could have fun in a cardboard box, and how it was kind of ironic ... we visit some of the most classy, trendy, hip and awesome restaurants in Seattle on a weekly basis, but when we go to Sydney, he takes me here... priceless!
We finally get to our seats and the view is great.
We order some wine and gnocchi as an appetizer, and the seafood platter for two as our main... we sat back and sipped our wine, laughing and people watching at some fun characters sitting next to us (one guy was actually wearing full leiderhosen garb!).
The food was amazing, the wine was amazing. Advice, though, if you order the seafood platter, do NOT order an appetizer or eat the bread! We were full before the main course even arrived!
We're finishing up and talking about heading down to The Rocks for a mini pub crawl. I'm feeling the affects of the wine, and become cheesy lovey Mandy, so I say to Brett, "I've never loved anyone more than I love you right now..."
He sees his opportunity and jumps at it. He starts to scoot his chair towards mine and asks, "Really? Do you want to be with me forever?"
"Of course i do, you nutter," i reply... We often ask each other this so it's nothing out of the ordinary. What IS out of the ordinary is Brett digging around in his jeans pocket while asking me that...
And then, he pulled out the most beautiful ring I've ever seen in my entire life. Holding it up in front of me, with the lights of Sydney twinkling in the background, and leiderhosen guy looking on with a huge toothless smile, Brett says, "Will you wear this and be with me forever?"
Speechless, literally speechless, my head spins and my heart swells.There's really no way to describe that feeling, when the person you love that much asks you to spend the rest of your life with him.
It was priceless.
I give Brett the biggest hug as I'm laughing at the situation -- sitting at the cheesiest of hotel restaurants, full of wine, leiderhosen guy smiling and holding his glass up to us (probably... at that point i was so blind to anyone in the restaurant) the situation was just SO us...
I was so blown away that he has just asked me to marry him. I don't even think i said, "yes", i think i just assumed he knew that of COURSE I'd want to be with him forever. He put the ring on my finger and it fit perfectly. Like it was meant to live on my ring finger.
Needless to say, this was the best Date Night ever!
3 comments:
Congratulations you two! I LOVE hearing stories about how couples get engaged.
Oh, and when I read the title I totally thought you were talking about renting the movie The Proposal as a great date night. This is SO MUCH BETTER!!! ☺
Congrats! So happy for both of you!
Best blog post yet! Congrats!!
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