This date in history: December 6, 1997 – WaltoWorld proposes marriage to EA while ice skating under the Christmas tree and the statue of Prometheus at Rockefeller Center, NYC.
It was a particularly cold day in the city that Saturday, and Fifth Avenue was packed with holiday shoppers and sightseers. We had taken the train into Penn Station that morning, and proceeded up Fifth Avenue, past Macy’s, Lord and Taylor, Cartier, St. Patricks’s Cathedral, a quick stop at The Tree, over to Radio City, and back up Fifth Avenue to FAO Schwarz. Back down Fifth, a digression to Godiva Chocolatier, and then 5:30PM Mass at St. Patrick’s. From St. Pat’s across the street to the ice rink at Rockefeller Center, where we waited on line in the freezing cold for nearly two hours before we were able to get onto the ice. EA thought I was nuts, and couldn’t figure out why I wanted to wait so long to go ice skating when we were freezing our butts off and could’ve been in a nice warm pub somewhere. We finally gained admission to the rink, rented our skates, and glided out onto the ice – I must admit, it was a truly thrilling experience to be skating at Rock Center on a Saturday night during the Christmas season. I had watched the skaters from the gallery, and now I was one of those skaters! It wasn’t long, however, before shin splints set in and I hastily skated over under Prometheus and asked EA for her hand in marriage.
She said yes.