I'll Remember the Night of the Tornado...

Thursday was the terrible tornado that ripped through Iowa City. It was crazy for me because I live in the third floor attic apartment of an old Victorian house with no insulation and made entirely of wood. We had bad hail and wind and saw three tornadoes from the windows of the basement of our building. However, we were blessed because the tornado came within 1/2 a block of our house, but didn't hit us. We didn't even have hail damage on our cars. My car had a metal pipe (similar to what is found on rooftops) stuck under it, but no damage.

So even though the tornado was pretty exciting and the damage around town was amazing, I'm going to remember the night of the tornado because I GOT ENGAGED!!!

That's right, Tom proposed, just following the tornado. He was stuck at a rest stop 10 miles west of Iowa City on I-80 for an hour-and-a-half waiting to get to me, and drove through the terrible storm twice before finding shelter at the tornado, but finally arrived. He hugged me in my parking lot, told me to turn around because he'd found me a t-shirt (I've been wanting on that says "Someone in Kansas loves me"), and then I turned around, he surprised me instead with a gorgeous engagement ring.

So, needless to say, I was floating around on cloud-nine after the tornado as we wandered around looking at all of the damage. I couldn't stop smiling, and I felt bad because of all the destruction around me, but I just couldn't help it.

On Friday night our friends that were still in town threw us a party at 808, and we had a blast. We have such great friends, and if Friday night was any indication of what our wedding could be like, we're in for a very fun time!