We're Engaged!

We're home after a short break in Poole, Dorset. Which was lovely!
Before blogging about the whole holiday, I thought I'd summerise it with two simple words. "We're Engaged!"

I know some of you may already know (or guessed!) but I finally broke the question to Dani on fireworks night on a quiet beach near Poole. It's something we've both wanted for a verrry long time and it's so great to finally tell people and start planning for our big day, which we're hoping will be Summer next year!

I could go on about why I want this to happen so much but I really don't wanna get soppy or sound like I'm engaged for the sake of going against what everyone thinks, so that's all.

Anyroad, we went on holiday....

First day in Poole was spent....in Poole. We took a look around a few of the shops, Dani spent the ENTIRE day (or atleast it seemed like it) in Lush and some other beauty shop spending all the money we haven't got.

Second day was my turn to choose where we spent the day. As you'd expect, I chose Monkey World.

We drove through a tank/military training ground to get there, as you'd expect from a holiday with me. Having a huge roaring tank pulling up behind you on the way to see monkeys was a little bit odd, but we soon found a short cut and parked up ready for a day of monkeeeeyys!

We got in and I found myself in the souvenir shop before we even got into the actual park. Once I was dragged away (without purchasing the monkey mask I so dearly wanted) we walked around a few empty monkey enclosures, but saw plenty of Robins and Crows, not as good as monkeys but still...


Eventually we came to the orangutan enclosure, which actually contain orangutan and not pigeons, which was great. The youngest of the three orangutan even took the time to have a quick chinwag with Dani. The picture below shows Dani looking into the mirror. :P

On the evening, we went down to the small local beach to do abit of proposing etc etc.
On the evening of Wednesday 5th November, me and Dani were engaged :)

We started the morning early to go to the island of Brownsea. Which sounds like diarrhoea, but it's actually a dead pleasent place with red squirrels and lots of bits of wildlife and stuff. We jumped on a boat which took us to the remote island, Dani took the chance to show off her new ring.

It's also currently inhabbited by the BBC for Autumnwatch, which finished the day we visited. I tried my very best to get a (good) photo of a red squirrle, but frankly, I hadn't the patience to sit and pretend to be a tree/nut/pile of leaves etc, so focused on getting a photo of a pheasant. Hmm.

All in all, it was a time I'll always remember, mainly because the fruit machines there never paid out and I lost about £60 on fruit machines and fulfilling my addiction to grabber games. I'll also remember it for other things, like proposing to Dani n that.

Tune out now to avoid abit of cheese,
Dani you are everything to me, I can't wait to spend my life with you.
I Love You.