Since I'm not sure who all knows this story, here it is. I've been meaning to write it down for a while now :).
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It begins with a bright idea. "Alisha, RENT is coming to Cleveland next month. We have to go!" Brian was very excited, as he should have been.
This specific musical, RENT, had always played a big part in our lives. We went to see it together as a movie when we first started dating. I had already seen it, and knew he would love it. There were certain songs that reminded me of him, and I quietly sang them to him in the theater. He said when we went to see it that night, it was when he first realized he loved me.
Of course when he told me it was coming to Cleveland, (a city I quite despised at the time) I basically came up with every excuse not to go, "But can we really afford that? what if it snows and we can't make it there?" And then he said the magic words..."Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp are touring with them as Roger and Mark". My tone changed completly. Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp were the original broadway "Roger" and "Mark" from the production, and were also in the movie. It was decided, and Brian ordered tickets soon after. He got incredible seats, and all that was left to do was save up the money for the drive to and from.
That's when I came up with a bright idea. "Why don't we make a day of it? I'd hate to just drive to Cleveland for the show, so lets spend the day there. We can go to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (where Brian had never been) and then the Hard Rock Cafe for dinner. How does that sound??" It was agreed, and I anxiously awaited such a fantastic sounding day.
It was the morning of January 10th, and I was packed up and ready to go. Columbus had been expecting a snow storm, and as nervous as we were to go, we decided to blister through it. We had just gotten new tires on my car (thanks to my dad and step-mom :-}) and started on our way. It was pretty icy, and I drove pretty nervously (not for myself, but because of the crazy people around me spinning out everywhere) for about 3 hours. But we listened to some fantastic music, and Brian was incredibly quiet. But, It looked mainly like so:
So, we stopped for lunch at Wendys (which is where that last picture was) and got some food in us before entering downtown cleveland. Once we got there, it was crazy! The streets were empty, because they had like 6-8 inches of snow, and none of the streets were plowed! We slid all over the place, and it was a blast. We finally found a parking garage, but still had to trek to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (which looked like it wouldn't be that far...*caugh caugh*)...Brian was freezing, and our pants were soaking (since none of the sidewalks were plowed either, but not enough to act that miserable. 
So we stayed there for a few hours, and had an absolute blast! My favorite thing by far was John Lennon's piano. SO COOL. All the Beatles stuff was amazing. I felt I could truly appreciate the museum now that I appreciate the genre more.
We stayed there until about 10 minutes before close, and then drove to the next parking garage to look for the Hard Rock Cafe. THAT was much easier said than done.
We asked around everywhere, walked around for about an hour in the freezing cold at night, through part of the ghetto even, until one restraunt finally told us where it was. When we found it, we were basically overjoyed. And no matter how much being lost in the freezing cold 8 inches of snow at night in the ghetto in a strange city should have been....we had a blast.
So we ate a fantastic dinner. We had been on a diet for the past 9 days (a pretty strict diet) and this was our first day off. We were taking advantage of that! I had a burger, and Brian had a steak. Both were absolutley amazing. We had a great waiter, and even had people sitting next to us who were going to see RENT too. :)
We then treked to the theater, which wasn't that bad. We were some of the first people in line, and got to stand inside and be nice and warm. We made friends with one of the door guys, and joked around with him for a while. 
He then showed us to our seats in the theater, and about 5 minutes into sitting there, Brian said he was going to the restroom. I just looked through the program, awaiting his return. Little did I know what he would return with.
When he came back, he had a group of about 7 or 8 girls standing there with him. I didn't know any of them, and was completly baffled by the fact that he found people he know here. It was then that he looked at me, and smiled, then turned back to them and quitely starting conducting them saying, "1,2,3,4". And they started singing this:
It was then, while these girls were singing "I'll Cover You" that he got down on one knee (or lept down, actually) and said, "Alisha, will you marry me??" He was crying and had a giant smile on his face, and I was so shocked. I took the ring out of the box, looked at it, put it on my finger, and after about 30 seconds finally said, "yes! yes of course!" I was in such a state of shock that I had almost forgotten to answer. He ran over to me and kissed me, both of us crying, and everyone started clapping. It was amazing. We got congratulated by everyone around us, and then he came and sat down next to me, and basically didn't let go of me the entire show. It was total bliss. We had a crazy/excited drive home, and got back at 2am. We were both so excited, but didn't have any trouble sleeping that night.
It could easily be named as the best day of my entire life. 
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