As Rachel was in the shower, Ross looked at his watch. "Shit." he muttered.

"Anything wrong darling.?" Rachel cried from the shower.

"No it's just that I remembered a seminar I am supposed to attend , then a discussion group, and finally a colleagues speech tonight. I'm sorry darling but I am abandoning you for now." Ross said as he grabbed his clothes and started to dress.

"But we were going to tell everyone." Rachel whined.

"Darling this is the reason we came down here. Remember my career?" reminded Ross. "I am sorry but I would do the same for you."

"Miss me?" she pouted.

"I love your little pout and your smile and just everything about you." he smiled. "Tell you what , we'll do something fun tomorrow , okay you pick and we'll do it. It's a light day at the conference, so I can get away."

"Why don't I give you the key to my room and that way Phoebe can be alone with David." Ross suggested. "Go down to the desk and tell them you want to be in my room."

"Can I tell everybody?" Rachel anxiously asked.

"I know you want to , but can we do it this together. I mean they're my friends too and my sister ?" Ross whined.

"What if Monica gets it out of me?" Rachel wondered.

"Okay you can tell her. That's it." Ross said. "Now honey I 've got to go. The fossil seminar started five minutes ago." he leaned over and gave her a peck on the cheek.

"Bye, stay away from your groupies." yelled Rachel.

"I'll tell them that I am spoken for." he smiled. "Bye gorgeous." he said as he closed the door.

Rachel laid on the bed and kicked her feet. She squealed with delight as she looked at the two karat ring on her hand.

"I'm engaged. I'm engaged."

Rachel jumped off the bed and ran out the door down the hall. Monica was already standing outside.

"Monica ! Monica ! Look I 'm engaged." she squealed as she moved the ring around on her hand.

Monica took her hand and started leaping as well. "We're going to be sisters." she screamed. "You are going to be Rachel Geller."

"Rachel Green Geller." she corrected her.

"What's going on?" said Chandler as he walked in the hall. "I think a brother in law has some rights to know." he smiled as he held out his arms to Rachel. "Congratulations Rachel." then hugged her.

"What's going on?" asked Joey as he came out of his room with his sand pail and shovel. "I was going to dig my hole and flirt with the sexy lifeguard. We were going to play Baywatch later."

"Rachel's getting married." Chandler smiled.

"To who?" asked Joey. A minute later it came to him . "Oh that is great Rach." he immediately went and hugged her.

"There you go." said Chandler.

"You guys you're not supposed to know yet, so could you please keep it from you know. He wanted to tell you, but he had all this stuff today." Rachel asked.

"Oh no no, no, keeping it in from someone. Did we not learn our lesson from you guys? " Joey exclaimed.

"Joey, we are only going to wait a day. Not a year."Rachel explained

"We have really got to start work on this. When is this wedding? " asked Monica.

"Relax hon, we don't even have a date yet." Rachel said.

Back at the conference, Ross was getting a cup of coffee.

"Dr. Geller, hello , I'm Dr. Wakefield with Oxford University" the older gentleman introduced himself. "I wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed your speech , but you had left the cocktail party."

Ross wondered how he was going to explain Charlie's scene and Rachel. "Family emergency."

"Anyway, I have been working on a project in Southeastern Asia and I have been looking for some young upstart to help me with it. I would love for you to have dinner with me this evening to discuss it."Dr. Wakefield said.

"This evening would be good, but I would like to bring my fiance along. We kind of just got engaged." Ross said.

"Splendid, I will meet you and …" Dr. Wakefield said.

"Rachel." Ross smiled.

"You and Rachel in the Tropical Room at eight." Dr. Wakefield said.

"I will see you then." Ross said as he walked away. He knew that this speech was going to be the thing to boost his career., but things were different now. He looked at his watch again. There was no time to tell Rachel that they were having this dinner meeting, so he picked up a piece of paper and handed it to the concierge.

"Give this to Miss Green, tell her to wear something nice and I will talk to her later." Ross said as he handed her the paper.

As Rachel and Monica walked to the pool, the clerk gave her the note.

"What's it say?" asked Monica.

"Rach, we are to talk to Professor Wakefield over dinner tonight. Big meeting so wear something nice . Meet me in the lobby at seven and then we'll both meet him. Love ya Ross."

"I wonder what that's all about." said Monica.

"Probably wants to congratulate him on his speech. I guess this is what this is like to be engaged to a scholar." Rachel said.

"Yeah when Chandler and I were first engaged, his boss Doug, pinched my ass." said Monica.

At seven o clock. Rachel strolled through the lobby in a black dress with spaghetti straps and pumps. Her hair was piled on top of her head and she carried a black Prada clutch.

"Right on time, my beautiful bride." Ross said as he came up to kiss her from the lobby.

"Do you know what this is about?" Rachel asked as she pulled the note from her purse. "This was rather vague."

"I'm sorry honey, but I had to get back to my seminar on fossils and wanted to tell you about this." he said. "I am not sure , but I think it might have to do with our future."

Dr. Wakefield spotted the young couple and walked over to them. "Dr. Geller, there you are. And this must be the future Mrs. Geller. " he said as he offered his hand. "Congratulations young lady."

"Thank you and please call me Rachel." Rachel said graciously.

"Well let's get a table because my boy, we have got a lot to discuss." the elderly professor said as they walked into the dining room.

As they were seated and ordered. Professor Wakefield spoke up. "Now that we have ordered, I will tell you why I have asked you to join me this evening. As you might know, I have spent my life dedicated to proving that prehistoric life did indeed exist. I have recently in my travels , discovered some rare fossils in China and other parts of Asia. I am not a young man, so I have been looking for someone to carry on my research and help me out as well. When I heard your speech , I could see you had the same passion for paleontology that I once had. I knew I had found what I was looking for. What I am proposing is two years in the field and a professorship at Oxford in England."

Ross looked at the professor startled, "Professor Wakefield I don't know what to say. I have always been an admirer of yours so this would be a dream come true.But I am afraid I am going to have to discuss this with my fiance ." he said as he looked at Rachel.

"England?" said Rachel. "We would move to England."