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While on our trip to Europe, I surprised my soon to be wife Jocelyn with a trip to Venice, Italy.

I planned the trip (flights, hotel) before we left for Europe with out her knowing, she's always said "don't buy me a ring, buy me a trip to Italy" So I did the next best thing.... both!

When I told her we were going to Venice we were sitting in a great Italian restauant we frequented while in London a pot called Carluccio's, eating some Gelato (her favorite treat) and told her that we were going to be eating the really real thing in tow days, and went on to tell her we would be in Venice for three days. she was so happy she started crying.

Our flights left at 630 in the morning. Thankfully Jon and Kendra gave us a lift to Stansted airport, as it was about a 75 pound cab ride.

The flight lasted about 3 hours. It was a beautiful flight, perfect blue skies and we could even see the mountain ranges below us.

One of the things I didn't plan out was what time the Hotel we were staying in opened up at, we arrived in Venice city at noon and the places check in time wasn't until one. So we walked around with out full packs for about an hour and a half, so we got maps and such. After we checked in we went out for a walk and snack. So we gathered the camera gear and headed out for an adventure.

We saw some amazing sites the first day/night we both wore shorts that day. We dinner at place on the main drag (and by drag I mean, walkway) at was pretty good. We had a few beer, appies, mains and split some kind of desert.

The following day we woke up just at sunrise and walked down to Saint Mark's square where we stayed for a few hours people watching, feeding the pigeons, photographing and snacking on more gelato.

We walked around all day, checked out some shopping, more food and more sights. We actually walked till we got lost. We alslo at one point got on a vaporetto, which is a "Boat transit". we enjoyed the diferent view and the rest from our feet.

The reason for going to Italy was that Jocelyn always told me not ot buy her a ring, but to buy her a trip to Italy. So I killed two birds with one stone. After our long walk we ate at a fancy restaurant. When we were finished we went outside and it began to sprinkle. We were just a few minute from Saint mark's square so we decided to go back one more time, before we left early the next morning. When we got there the big band was playing singing in the rain. Jocelyn graduated from York University with a degree in Dance (top of her class). While the video camera was filming and knowing this I asked her to do the dance that Gene Kelly does to Singing in the rain. She of course said no... So i asked her again with a pleeeease? she said no! again

I told her she wouldn't get the ring if shes didn't...
Still a No!

So I got down on....."2 knees" and babbled for a minute about how much I loved her and that she was the best thing that has ever happened to me.

Their was now a slew of people watching me and probably wondering why I looked to be begging her for something. and then She said "yes!" with tears in her eyes.

So I got off my knees and we continued walking and taking pictures. We walked till we got lost, we started noticing we were in a mostly residential area of town and actually ended up near the prison....

We got back to our hotel and........

The next morning we got up and headed back to London.

The end.