We first met in college and immediately connected over rock climbing and other adventures, and having only lived about 30 minutes away from each other. Secretly, Christopher slowly fell in love with Stephanie but never confessed his feelings toward her in order to preserve their friendship, Stephanie being too amazing to risk losing. After 6 years of friendship, we planned a 10 day trip up the coast of California, Oregon, and Washington where we were sure we would get sick of each other. To our surprise, we never did! As our love grew, we continued our love of adventures and travelled many places together, until we decided our next adventure should be marriage, as 2 good friends would obviously do in this circumstance.