Latrell and I met back in the summer of 2005 while on an Alaskan cruise vacation. She was about to start her freshman year of high school and I, a year older, was entering my sophomore year. As an 8th grade graduation present, Melissa’s grandparents decided that they wanted to take her somewhere different, off the beaten path, and probably to a place where a 15 year old boy couldn’t meet and fall in love with their granddaughter. Luckily for us, my parents had the same idea and decided on Alaska as the perfect place for our family to get away from it all.