Earlier this month, Georg and I were on a motorcycle tour throughout southern Germany, and Georg decided to make it a super memorable trip!
While visiting Schloss Neuschwanstein (also known as The Disney Castle, because Walt Disney based the design on this castle) in Bavaria, Georg gave me one of the best treats of my life.
We had arrived at the castle late in the afternoon because we had had to travel 250 kms to get there from his sister's place near Stuttgart. This meant that we couldn't get into the castle, but could walk the grounds. The castle is perched on a small mountain in the Alpin foothills, overlooking a wide, flat valley. The view is absolutely stunning! We gawked at the view for awhile and then decided to hike up the mountain a bit further to another lookout point, this time with the castle included in the valley panorama.
At this lookout point, a bridge suspended over a dry riverbed, (which was very far down!), we were slightly above the castle elevation, giving us a great vantage point as to how majestic the castle really was. (Sure, it is a fairly new castle, only slightly over 150 yrs old, but beautiful nonetheless.) There were many tourists here, and so Georg suggested we climb up an adjacent hiking path (so that we could be alone). I didn't even suspect a thing!
So, it was here, at the "top of world", overlooking a stunning castle, with mountains in the background, the fresh wind in my hair, that Georg asked me to marry him! And, of course, I said "yes!" (Well, at first, I said, "No, way!! Really!?! No way!!" But after that, I said "yes!").
We have decided to get married this fall, and will do so October 8th in Canada. Get ready for your wedding invitations!
