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Song related factoid: The day we first met in person, we sang A Whole New World together. It was a request that I fulfilled despite not really liking to sing that much. I brought a CD full of cheesy love songs but that was what the first song we listened to together was.
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It's just a song by a band we like called Abney Park.
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With a crew of drunken pirates
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A small
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Woooooo
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I didn't grow up around coasters and they are a bit daunting to me still. They're never as bad as I believe them to be though. Even if I'm never a big thrill ride lover, I still enjoy our visits to the park so long as sweetie is there!
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Well we did have a few ants when we first moved in... clearly my lecture has fallen on deaf ears!
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Thank you
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Where's John
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Let me be your guru.
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My first fanart!

And that's ok, I'd it makes any difference I commonly wear Tripps anyway; looks great to me!
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Alrighty, we've returned with some pictures now!

Our adventure of course started at the Georgia Aquarium. I have a video of the proposal as I said, but here are a few images that were captured by the photography team at Magic Memories:

https://imgur.com/hX1S2vS
https://imgur.com/4HuT7ZD
https://imgur.com/t6Vwn3U

For context purposes, how it went was there was a staged behind the scenes tour, of which we were the only guests. During this 45 minute-ish tour, the divers got in place in the tank and after the tour we were released into the main viewing area of the aquarium's largest tank and sat through the usual dive show Q&A. Following that, we played a set-up game of trivia in which we were preset to be chosen. The aquarium probably does receive a lot of proposals for the record. When I contacted them they came ready with a PDF file full of choices. This is probably the most popular sort of set-up I think; it gives you a great big audience and has the most natural feel I think. Our tour guide Benjamina was nice enough to pretend to want to watch the show so she could actually record the entire thing on my phone.

From there we had a nice dinner and went off to Disneyland the following morning. Bright and sunny SoCal was... wet 2/3 days. Especially day 2. We still had a lot of fun, and surprisingly we probably agree the second day was the best one.

https://imgur.com/zFBFHP2 (Thinking of you @StifledSilence and @Great_Paul)
https://imgur.com/a4MUA8s
https://imgur.com/SinHMHc
https://imgur.com/0TiUfx4
https://imgur.com/iUOvO1l

Work work work:

https://imgur.com/4c604GQg
https://imgur.com/O9cODU6

Here are some other Disney characters. @JONALEON1 would probably have liked to get the shot with them, but since neither of us have a huge connection to them that wasn't a must for us. Still, we saw them!

https://imgur.com/ti3ZgVl
https://imgur.com/wSRtfqi
https://imgur.com/gS5jBso
https://imgur.com/hmNhimk
https://imgur.com/ZOb557s
https://imgur.com/hQW2rU6

On Saturday we visited the San Diego Zoo. Whenever we take a trip we almost always visit the major zoo in the area. We love zoos and this one was great. It's so huge though, and with so many animal species it was impossible to see all in one trip.

https://imgur.com/auxHrOX
https://imgur.com/3C7cfH4
https://imgur.com/RHAwHr7

Thanks again for the well wishes friends. Thanks to @SBAllen and the GameFAQs team for keeping this site going all these years. We wouldn't be here without you.
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Oh wow.

Still in Cali but once we're back home I'll deliver some things.
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Thanks everyone :)
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Almost 15 years ago I came to this website to upload a guide for Mortal Kombat: Deception. I didn't know it back then, but coming here would truly become a life altering decision. I ended up hanging around initially due to my interest in Cloud winning the character battle but following that I'd have raytan to thank for my continuing participation here (SMFFFC, of course). Over the years I've interacted with a lot of people here, positively and negatively at times. I've made great friends and have spent nearly half my life as a member of this board.

Around 8 years ago I met another user here, GenesisSaga. She was a fan of things I was and enjoyed the board games here most know as Save Mys. She messaged me one day about working together in an alliance in one of these, and that expanded to include more. Honestly, I was immediately intrigued even that long ago. I was not a very happy person, I was lonely and... well, here's a girl with like interests right here in front of me. It took quite some time, and one rejection, but as a lot of you know we started dating in early 2016. In that time my life has changed in so many ways. This has been the only relationship I've had where I never felt unsure of the other's feelings. Where I was actually made happy by someone else rather than by my own actions. I've been so many places, literally and metaphorically, that I never thought I'd go. Right now, we've landed in Disneyland. And I did so with my fiancee.

We never made a formal topic on the board about our relationship, but I did want to make this one. Yesterday was two years from the day we decided to take our friendship to the next level, and a little over a year since we moved in together. I proposed at the Georgia Aquarium, where we had our first physical date. I may share a video of it later since they kind enough to provide me with a recording.

I wanted to make this topic as not just an announcement, but as a thank you. To everyone on this board, friend, acquaintance, uh, others. I'm a big believer in the butterfly effect, and when I think of the journey that has led me here, I'm astonished at how many things could have altered the path. So thank you, thank you for being my home for all these years. I've been through the worst of times and the best of times right here. Without everything happening as it had, maybe I wouldn't be where I am today. I wouldn't be here with my best friend, the love of my life, my soulmate. I can't imagine feeling more fulfilled, or so full of desire to live more. Here's to many more memories together board 8.
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