If you haven't yet heard the tale....

It was here, in Ireland.  We had decided to take a vacation this past summer, and had not really planned it out. So we bought some plane tickets, flew across the Atlantic, and rented a car.  About a week into our trip (the first day the sun came out) we found ourselves at the Blarney Castle.  We did as the tourists must and made our way to the top of the castle so we could kiss the Blarney Stone and be blessed with "the gift of gab".  Afterwards we wandered into an area called the Rock Close, where there were said to be some old Irish Legends.

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Claire was particularly intrigued by the Wishing Steps.  Legend had it that if someone could make it down through the steps and back up again...backwards...with their eyes closed... both ways...then their wish would be granted.  So down she went to test the theory.

She barely made it back up, but when she did was holding a ring.  I believe the wish was something along the lines of:
"I wish that you would spend the rest of your life with me" ... and the rest, they say...is history.