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After our trek our time away was over. The weekend was spent in Newcastle. On the Saturday John wanted us to go out and we organised a babysitter, John booked a restaurant and we went for an adult night out (yay!!), all dolled up and in fine spirits.

The dinner was really lovely, The Bistro offers fine dining and is one of Newcastle's oldest restaurants. -It looks it too! It's quite run down, we sat on broken chairs and had bent knives and were almost put under the stairs leading up to the piano man. The menu to this fancy restaurant was paper on a clipboard and in the bar they had a video of a tropical reef playing and the reception was terrible. Haha, at least we got a good laugh. The food was terrific though so no complaints there.

After our lovely dinner John wanted to go to the top of Monument Hill for a look. I wasn't very happy about that, feeling cold and tired. I uttered many complaints on the way up in the lines of "I'm cold, i don't want to go up here!" "you shouldn't take your date if she doesn't want to go" and then when we got to the top I was reminded of my first time in Newcastle and uttered "how the hell did I end up in this town!?" (Newcastle is ok but a bit of a never-ending suburbia, pretty boring too with the only entertainment for people being the beach and the mall. Downtown itself is a ghetto!).

The view wasn't bad though and it was nice to go to the top of the hill (although being such a cow I didn't admit that).. Now didn't I feel like a total KILLJOY when John looked at me and said "will you marry me?" NOOOOOOOOO!!! This is not how it's supposed to go! I wanted to go back to the car and start over and be not be such a cranky bitch! Anyway, i said "No, you don't want to marry me" but he popped a cherry ring from the Maitland Reject shop on my finger anyway and it took me 20 minutes of being totally shell-shocked and monosyllabic before i said "yes".

He had meant to ask me on our hike but since he couldn't start a fire he didn't. That's why he got so angry when he couldn't start a fire and why he swore so much! How sweet!!! That setting would have suited us so well!

John's mum later said she thought he had done very nice for himself (choosing me) but I think I am the winner here. : )

Look at that $4 baby sparkle!