February 12th, 2010 A Proposal in Fort Collins
It’s Saturday afternoon in Colorado. After a boys night out, we had to get up very early because Cameran and his guest had to fly back. After a delicious German breakfast, boiled eggs, fruit, bread, jam and coffee we all left our wonderful guest home, thanks Cameran for letting us stay the night. Rene and I had packed our car once again and headed onward north.
A little bit after Denver, which gave us a beautiful view of the Great Plains to our right and to our left the Rocky Mountains, we stopped at Fort Collins where the Colorado State University is located. We stopped here for the night, because this college was Rene’s parents Alma-mater and where they married back in 1970. We walked around campus and we’re pretty sure we found the apartment complex where they first lived after they got married.
We found a coffee shop called the Alley Cat Cafe, which is open 24 hours and we decided to book us a room for the night, so we took advantage of the free wi-fi offered by the coffee shop and found this wonder site: hotel fort collins, and managed to find a great hotel not far from where we were and at a great rate.
Tomorrow, we plan to drive on to Yellowstone National Park, but we knew there’s no way we’d make it there by today. After we spent some more time at the coffee shop, we walked around a bit more. Fort Collins is really a great college town. It was great to see where Rene’s parents met and married. Now that her parents have passed-on, I could tell this little side trip to Fort Collins made Rene feel reflective and oddly enough at peace. I think it will be a great time for me to propose to Rene tomorrow morning, before we leave.
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