When journalist Kelly Sommariva’s bosses asked her to cover a soft feel-good news story down at the Denver Aquarium, she didn’t question them. She was told to go and “cover the otters” so, she did.
Little did she know, her trip to go “cover the otters” would live in her heart forever.
The otters had a very special message for her. Sommariva began watching the otters and was positioning her camera so she could get a good shot of them. The otters begin swimming around in front of her camera.
Then, one of the otters swims down to the bottom of the tank and pulls up an overturned sign. She takes a minute to read the sign then realizes what it says.
Kelly,
Look at us, now look at your man
Back to us now, back to your man
Now say “yes” to marrying your man!
Love,
Blue, Slater, and Emmet
She looks up from her camera and says, “Nooo!” in disbelief of what she just read. Her boyfriend, Mike Jensen, walks out and behind her and gets down on one knee holding a ring box in his hand.
She spins around and is so otterly (get it!) shocked that she puts her hand over mouth. Sommariva walks over to Jensen and he takes her by the hand and pops the question.
Still unable to speak, Sommariva shakes her head yes.
He grabs her and hugs her tight for a few seconds. Then Sommariva realizes that he’s forgotten something… the ring.
“Can you show it to me?” she says. “I might want to redact that statement.”
They both laugh and he pulls out the ring and places it on her finger.
“Is it OK?” Jensen asks.
“It’ll do, yeah,” she tells him.
“She doesn’t like it take it back,” he jokes.
But, she clearly does as she goes back to covering her mouth in shock.
They hug again and Jensen looks back at the otter and says, “Good job buddy.” It was a beautifully touching moment for everyone who was at the aquarium that day, including Sommarvia’s co-workers.
“I felt so overwhelmed with happiness when I saw Kelly read that sign,” co-worker Raquel Villanueva said.
Even the otters seemed to be happy about their proposal as they were splashing around. Proposal by otter is definitely something we’ve never seen before. Check out the video of this otter proposal below.
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