If you haven’t noticed, I’m back from Michigan and the most amazing weekend I’ve ever had with the most amazing man in the world! Obviously, you can tell just from that that I had a great time – which I did and I wouldn’t change any of it for the world…except for the trip to have been longer. My flight from Charleston to Detroit went smoothly and I actually arrived ahead of schedule, was about 2:15ish rather than 2:30. I arrived at the hotel at exactly 3pm and was able to relax a little before I changed my clothes and got ready for Alan to come to the hotel. He had to work that Friday so he wasn’t able to pick me up at the airport but that’s okay…he got to the hotel around 5:30pm because he was silly and went to the wrong hotel, haha! The initial moments were us being nervous and not really knowing what to say since we were both taken aback by the fact that both of us were finally together but it soon passed and things went smoothly the rest of the weekend.

He surprised me with a box of Godiva Milk Chocolates and a card for Sweetest Day. We went out to eat the first night at Champps which has delicious food. Saturday, we went over to the mall and checked out a few stores – I got to go into an Apple store  We also got 2 chocolate covered Strawberries at Godiva and he wouldn’t let me look at the jewelry because he knew I’d go straight for the wedding bands- there was a sign at one of the stores and I started to smile, he’s like what are you smiling at and I turned him around and he saw what it was…he was like “don’t even, missy” That night he treated me to an amazing dinner at Bennihanna’s Japanese Steak house, where he had lobster and fillet mignon and I had steak and shrimp along with fried rice and soup – we both dressed in purple, it was cute After dinner, we went to a late movie and watched We Own the Night and headed back to the hotel for lovely us time :wink: On Sunday, we met his mom at a local cafe that Alan always goes too for breakfast – his mom is so cute and such a trip…she talks a mile a minute though, haha. We ended up going back to the hotel after that and slept most of the afternoon since we had been out until 2 or so the night before but when we got up we just drove around town and went to a few stores.

The town he lives in (Plymouth, MI) is the cutest little town with the cute little houses. In my opinion, it’s just a great all-American type town; it’s not really uppity or rich looking but it’s not all old and run down either, it has it’s own unique flare to it and it looks like the city takes good care of it’s property and parks. The trees were absolutely gorgeous with leaves that were yellow, red and brown and the weather…perfect! I can definitely see myself living there and raising a family which is very important to me and to him, so that’s a good thing

He had to work yesterday so after I dropped him off at work, I went back to the hotel and slept until 10am; I woke up and finished packing and checked out around 11:30am. I drove downtown and ate lunch at Panera Bread and just sat around until 4 for Alan to meet me. It was a nice day but one of those days were I had to fight back tears every minute because I knew I would be leaving that night. We ate dinner at Applebee’s and headed to the airport around 6:30pm…we sat in the airport for about an hour and a half before I went through the security checkpoint at which point he could no longer be with me as they only allow people with boarding passes past those points these days. It was the hardest thing I had to do; he cried, I cried…we cried together. I didn’t want to leave and he didn’t want me to go. For the first time, I have someone in my life that loves me for the person I am and expects me to be nobody different. I was scared when I went to Michigan only because I didn’t know what would happen – I didn’t know if things would change when I got back to Charleston or if he’d like the person he had gotten to know the last 3 months and to be able to say that nothing has changed between us is amazing…the only thing that has changed is that we are closer than before and we’re stronger as a couple. He means the world to me, the absolute world to me and I would do anything for him. He is such an amazing person with a great personality, not to mention he looks hot in his purple dress shirt :wink: He’s coming down here in December and even though that is 2 months away we’ll make it and we’ll be okay. I know now where I am suppose to be and who I want to be with and the answer is in Plymouth with Alan.