The Botany Pond

One of the tours they took us on last week was a new scenic walk along south campus beginning just above the Botany Pond and winding its way along 9th North (?), turning north at the Brick Oven and ending up at the old Joseph Smith Field House. It's absolutely beautiful with five different waterfalls that cascade down the hillside and amazing flowers, shrubs, and trees planted and cared for by the botany department. If you attended BYU you will remember the Botany Pond as a little romantic spot where many a young man proposed to the girl of his dreams.

Not so Randy. Romantic guy that he is, he took me to dinner at a fancy hotel on the Las Vegas Strip. We rode the external glass elevator to the top of The Mint, and then danced the night away to the music of Don the Beachcomber at the Sahara Hotel. How romantic is that?! Then, for some strange reason, he drove me to a used car lot, and there under the glare of about 50 high-powered lights, he produced a diamond ring and asked me to marry him. Go figure!