We first met sometime in summer 2014. Caroline was working in the kitchen at the Thirsty Hippo and had just closed down the kitchen after a dinner shift. Shaw had joined some friends for drinks out on the bar's patio. As Caroline headed home for the night, Brad (proprietor of the Hippo), who had been chatting with the group, invited her to join them. Shaw and Caroline began a long conversation about flightless birds, which culminated with them taking turns naming every flightless bird they could think of. They went their separate ways and didn't run into each other again for several months. Fast forward to later that year, and Shaw found himself bartending at the Thirsty Hippo (and working with Caroline). He asked Caroline out on their first date on November 17, 2014. They went to see Interstellar at the theater followed by burgers at the Mugshots. And the rest, as they say, is history.