On February 27, 2018, Jon Proposed to Katie at Ditleff Beach in St. John.

Jon asked Katie if she wanted to go paddleboarding first thing in the morning before the wind and waves picked up. Katie thought it was a great idea, although her definition of first thing in the morning was clearly different than Jon's.

Jon's alarm went off at [vacation] crack of dawn - 6:10am. Katie thought it must have been a mistake and rolled over attempting to go back to sleep until at least 7am. Jon had other plans, and was up making lots of noise. After much grumbling, Katie got up and got ready to go paddle boarding - thinking this adventure was to find turtles.

After a quick march down to the beach, they were off. Katie thought she found a turtle pretty early on in the paddle and tried to call Jon back. Jon, however, turned around and kept motoring on - he was a man on a mission. About half way through the paddle, Katie noticed that Jon had something square in his pocket and thought for a fleeing second "is he going to propose?" She then quickly thought "nope, that is definitely just the GoPro for when we find turtles."

Again, Katie paddled around on a mission to find turtles, while Jon made a B-line for the beach, on a mission to get Katie to the beach. She was clueless. When Jon finally got Katie over to the beach he mentioned that he wanted to explore a path that he thought was on the beach. Katie knew the path was in the exact opposite direction, but Jon nevertheless persisted to get her to a spot at the end of the beach where he wanted her to go.

When Jon finally got Katie to the end of the beach, he dropped to one knee, pulling out a ring box (from the same pocket that Katie thought had a GoPro) and asked Katie to marry him! Katie, of course, said "Yes!"

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