I will never forget the morning after the day that my husband, Arnie, asked me to marry him. I awoke with a euphoric feeling. The whole world was in harmony. Everything was going my way. There was a gentle breeze outside and the sun was shining.
"Could this be real," I asked myself? "Am I really engaged?" I quickly lifted my left hand up and stared dreamily down at my ring finger, which was now adorned with a pure and gleaming piece of ice. Just then, the phone rang. I jumped up and ran to get it. Maybe it was Arnie! Or if it's not him, then surely it would be some admiring listener who I could tell the romantic story of our engagement to.
Toasting sparkling cider, my husband Arnie proudly announced, “To my partner in adventure!” I took a deep breath, looking inquisitively into his gleaming green eyes and smiled. We had just flown from Dallas, Texas to Fairbanks, Alaska and I was exhausted.
I sipped my cider with one free hand (the other hand still wrapped snug in a ratty-crocheted snow covered mitten.) “Here we are,” I thought to myself, “celebrating our anniversary at a remote lodgewith howling sled dogs outside. No doubt, we are in for an adventure.”