a brief intro: i live in the center of saint petersburg, a touristy place.
the major attraction here is bascule bridges:
when they move (around 1-1:30 am), a large crowd gathers on both sides of the river and also a lot of boats move along to let tourists see the bridges moving from below:
teh missus has never seen this, so we went to the event today. there were hundreds of people on the embankment and hundreds of boats on the river. i stood behind her when she was watching the Liteyniy bridge raising:
when it was about to be fully raised, i took the ring box out of my pocket, opened it and stood on my knee. half a minute after she turned to me to say how spectacular the bridge is, saw me saying "will you marry me?" and shouted "oh my God, yes!". that was the first time in my life when a hundred of people applauded to me!