I could go on about about something special that took place in my life over the Labor Day weekend, but my own "leading lady" has already done it so well...

So, anyway, this is the third part of a 4-part blog she posted on her own MySpace page recently. If you're interested in reading the whole story, click over to her page. (She's my number one MySpace friend, as you might expect: Cavermeg):

"So when I last left off, 4 members of the caving expedition had remained behind in a large room, while the others explored a low muddy crawl.  The "other Dave" and Dan meandered around the room looking at the details of the room.  (My) Dave and I found a nice seat near the enterance to the low crawl.  I thought it would be neat to see the lights as the group crawled back on their return.  We sat there in silence and waited.

Then Dave said, "This is exactly what I thought it would be like."
Huh?  "Caving?  So is that a good thing or bad thing?" I asked.
"This is perfect.  This is exactly what I had in mind," he replied.
Umm? "Ohhh," as I realized he wanted to make out with me in the cave.
"No, you're not quite getting it.  Your mind is too far in the gutter," Dave explained.
I was confused and starting to worry, Dave seemed to be hyperventilating (but he seemed to do so well through the cave).  "Are you ok?"  I'm not sure if he even answered me. 
He had turned his headlamp off and mine was the only one to light our corner of the room.  He got down on his knee in the mud in front of me.  And he was staring and me and smiling.  He was so close and staring me right in the eyes.  And it really made me nervous and slightly uncomfortable and confused.  Thinking maybe he wanted to kiss me, I reached up and flicked off my headlamp and that threw us in total darkness.  There was a pause, waiting for the kiss that didn't come.  But during that pause, a slight glow of realization started to appear to me.  And then, in the dark, he whispered, "Will you marry me?"
And without any hesitation, I replied, "Of course, I will."

And then we leaned into each other to kiss and our helmets banged together.  Turned out heads sideways and kissed.  And then we took out helmet off, still in complete and utter darkness and silence, and talked and kissed.  He told me that the ring was back in the car, that he had thought about bringing it in the cave with him but decided that probably wasn't a good idea.  He told me that he had been planning on doing this for months.  That he really wanted to propose to me in a cave.  He bought the ring back in May.  He said he had only within the past couple weeks told a few of his friends that he was planning on proposing to me.  And he said that he was 99.999998% sure that I would say "yes" but there was always that small chance that I might not.  After talking, we felt around for our helmets which were difficult to find in the darkness.  I flicked on my light. 
"Gee, the others should be back by now.  Maybe we should go find (other) Dave and Dan?" 
"Oh, we're right around the corner.  Just wanted to give you two your moment," (other) Dave replied. 
Ha, ha, he had heard the whole thing.  I knew that sound carries well in caves.  We stood up and walked around the corner and sure enough, Dave was literally right around the corner.  And Dan was curled up on the other side of the room asleep.  A group of 5 spelunkers came through (wearing t-shirts, tennis shoes, and carrying only flashlights) and they crawled through the small passage after consulting a paper with the cave's description.
"Hey, while you slept, those two got engaged," (other) Dave told Dan.
"Nawh, really?" Dan asked.
"Yeah, really," we replied. 

So we decided that there might have been some miscommunication and that maybe it was supposed to be a through trip and the low crawl led to another entrance.  So the four of us exited the way that we had come in.  Sure enough, there others were out, in clean clothes, and waiting at the bottom of the hill.  So Dave and I walked hand in hand down through the field.  After changing clothes, Dave slipped the ring on my finger.  It's beautiful.  It looks likea flower, like Queen Anne's Lace. 
"So what did you think of the cave?" one of the random cavers asked.
"Pretty good, considering I got engaged in the cave."

So that's pretty much it.  There are probably some details I left out.  For example, the ring is alittle too big, so Dave bought a plastic yellow bat ring for 10 cents to wear as a placeholder while I walked around the campsite.  (Actually, I've been wearing both the diamond and the bat rings the past couple of days at work.)

Woah!!! I'm engaged!!!! Who'd'a thunk it?!?!?!?!?