Our engagement, in my humble opinion, was the best.

Rob popped the question at El Parque Nacional Desierto de los Leones, in Mexico City. This park is stunning and it has an abandoned convent, which definitely sparked my interest, but let me back up.

Our vacation in Mexico City started a couple days prior. We had the opportunity to eat at one of the best restaurants in Mexico, Quintonil. It was their 10th year anniversary, so they had a special tastings options, which of course we took advantage of! We decided that this dinner would serve as our own 5th year anniversary dinner. Once dinner was over and the staff brought us our own little dessert to celebrate, Rob grabbed my LEFT hand and started saying all kinds of sweet things to me, I was sure that was going to be it. But alas, I was wrong, whatever. We went on with our vacation and I didn’t think much of anything. After all, when we were packing, I asked if I should take something nice other than for our dinner and he simply said “no, for what?”

The night before going to El Desierto de los Leones, Rob slept HORRIBLY. He was twisting and turning in bed and he told me he was having some pain in his left arm. As a nurse and an anxious person, a red flag immediately went off and I thought my man was having a heart attack. After asking multiple times if he was okay and waking up every couple of hours to make sure he was still breathing, morning came and he was indeed not having a heart attack. THANK GOD.

That morning he went out of the hotel to “get money from the ATM,” now I don’t know if that was true because I later found out that’s when he called my dad and Franky to let them know he was going to propose, how sweet.

Later on he came back to the hotel and we left to the abandoned convent, I was all cute and dressed because I had no idea this was actually a forest, I thought we were just going to look at the convent. Wrong.

So we get to the place and it’s cold. Like pretty cold and I’m wearing a sleeveless dress with a low back and sandals. The convent wasn’t very interesting and most of the doors were closed. Things were going south, quick. Not to mention, this place was about an hour away from the city, so I knew we were going to be here for at least an hour to make the drive worth it, but I was already ready to go home.

So as I was walking around the convent, this woman comes up to me and asks if she could take pictures of Rob and I. If ya’ll know anything about me, let it be that I am extremely awkward. So naturally, I said no. Little did I know that Rob had hired her to take our proposal pictures! So I turned to Rob to confirm that we indeed were not going to take pictures and I saw a little bit of panic in his eyes as he said “yeah let’s go ahead and take some!”

That photoshoot was the longest and most awkward 2 hours of my life. So we walked, talked, posed, and tried to make it as painless as possible for the poor photographer, until the moment finally came.

She had Rob and I stand back to back on each side of an archway. While Rob got the ring out and I guess get ready? She asked me to do some solo poses, and oh my god, I was so embarrassed. Thankfully it didn’t take Rob too long to get ready and I could feel him walking my way. When I could no longer take the attention of the camera, I prematurely turned around and saw Rob start to get on one knee and my heart exploded. I remember having zero thoughts other than “yes.” I genuinely am not 100% sure of what Rob said in that moment because I was in shock. It was truly a beautiful moment.

After all the emotions began to die down a little, we finally got some breakfast and went back to the city were I could admire my beautiful ring and tell all my friends and family I was finally engaged and Rob could finally sleep in peace with no arm pain.

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