Sorry, a lot of drama = a lot of story to tell!
haha!
Well... now that we had the money - lost the money - resaved the money - we had to finally settle on a ring!
By this point we were fast approaching our yearly Thanksgiving trip to California to spend time with His family...
I typically take off the first half of that week since those are the days that He already has off anyways.... so when we were out there we had plenty of time to kill....
Since He had been pestering me for a new gun (yes, we are gun people) - he suggested that we might be able to benefit from the hard times that had hit the area by checking out their local pawn shops.
Enter : Olde West Gun & Loan
Image via Google Maps - Redding, CA
This place was a mega-jackpot of guns and ammo.... really, it was an impressive selection.... but personally we found their gun prices to be on the high side so we left with some ammo for a rare gun my Grandfather has... but no guns....
What we did find were FOUR.... count 'em FOUR Marquise Solitaire rings... FOUR!!!
Heaven!
Now, I know there is a lot of stigma attached to pawn shop rings.... but really, if you know what you want, why should it matter where you get it? Given the extensive searching we had been doing, we knew exactly what we had found - the perfect ring at a minimum of 50% off retail.... [of course we had the ring professionally checked out!]
Personal Photo
Look at that baby shine!
Finally we were engaged!!!
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