Old Memories and Bosnians

I was pretty sure that I mentioned this in an earlier post, but I can't seem to find it... so maybe I didn't. My memory is so poor! Oh! I remembered! I wrote about it on facebook under my wedding pictures. Anyhow, here is the story. I shopped high and low for Rob's wedding ring before our wedding. Well, within a week of our wedding, we went on our first honey moon. We backpacked up into the mountains... it was like 6 miles... uphill... both ways. Alright, just on the way in, but it was hard! I even got lost on our little venture and was just about to enter complete freak-out mode when I found the trail again. He got tired of waiting for me so I told him to go ahead of me and set up camp... surely I can follow a trail, right? Not when it ends! Anyhow, he did get there way ahead of me. By the time I arrived, he had already lost his wedding ring... somewhere. We searched everywhere, but never found it. Here is a picture of our first rings:

Jump ahead 6 years, I bought Rob another wedding ring when he was leaving for Bosnia. He wouldn't wear the thing tho, something about getting it caught on helicopter parts and electric currents. So he put his ring on his watch band. (I also need to add at this point that I mailed him a camera to use in Bosnia... I'll come back to this in a little bit) Well, one fateful morning, Rob opened his watch and the ring fell off into a boardwalk type thing. Several Bosnians that worked on the base came along and ripped up the boards and never found the ring. Rob took pictures of them ripping up the boards and looking for the rings.... these are the only pictures he took the entire 8 months he was there.


So... here is the question. Is the third time the charm? Should I really fork out money for ring number 3 when it will probably be lost in less than a month? I will add that I have had my share of problems w/ my ring. I think that it was cheaply made to begin with... my opinion. I have had to replace several prongs and I actually lost the big diamond once... right after I got the prongs redone. Somewhere in Nampa, there is a diamond floating around! I also lost it for a few months. I thought it fell down the drain but I found it eventually.