I’ve just spent three days in the beautiful Port Stephens region of NSW. It was a great three days and I wish it wasn’t over. I’ve been out in the port itself with dolphins, on the sand dunes where they filmed parts of the newer Star Wars movies. I’ll throw some pictures up later once I have finished grabbing them off the camera.

The other big news is that I am now engaged. I proposed to my beautiful girlfriend Faith at the end of a wonderful Valentine’s Day and lucky for me she said yes. This is the start of what I believe will be the greatest experience of my life.

I have done a lot of things in my life, but nothing, and I mean nothing has been so nerve wracking than asking her to marry me. It’s the opportunity of ultimate rejections if the answer is no. And even though I knew she would say yes, the waves of fear that swept my body as I was there on one knee were uncontrollable. My hands were shaking as I attempted to open the box containing the very, VERY expensive ring. At one point I was going to propose while we were on our sunset dolphin cruise, but the paranoia began to build. What if I drop the ring overboard? what if she does? What if she says no? I decided it was not worth it that level of fear on top of what I was already feeling.

In the end I proposed once we got back to the bungalow. Her response was pretty much the physical embodiment of what I had been going through all day exploding in about 30 seconds. It was a truly great reaction and one that I will never forget. I don’t believe there is anything that can be done to make me happier than I am right now, so I’m just going to soak it up for a while. Well at least until the future mother-in-law comes around tonight so we can tell her the news.

Now what was I saying about fear??