As many of you may know, we met in Shanghai American School at 11 years old when we were both in 6th grade! Michelle moved in September 2008 from New Jersey and Ivor moved a few months later in December 2008 from Michigan. Michelle's first memory of Ivor was that he had a buzz cut, wore a huge orange puffer, and was approximately 5 inches shorter than her. Ivor has no first memory of Michelle. We grew up together at SAS for many years, often crossing paths in the same classes, but never got to know each other until senior year of high school. At that point (after the encouragement of some friends), Ivor started talking to Michelle on Skype and we got to know each other during spring of our senior year. We eventually went to prom together and started officially dating after our senior trip to Koh Samui, Thailand. We had the best summer ever in Shanghai and had so much fun exploring the city together after graduation. At the end of summer, we made a pact that we would break up, as many do for college. And so we did... but not for long! In October 2015, after 2 months of not seeing each other, Ivor had a plan. He signed up for a hackathon at Yale, which was just 30 minutes away from Wesleyan, where Michelle went to college. He took the free 10-hour bus ride from Michigan to Connecticut to "go to the hackathon". Once he was there, he ditched the hackathon to spend less than 24 hours with Michelle at Wesleyan in an attempt to get back together. Well, turned out it worked and we've been together ever since! Since then, we did 5 years of long distance before moving in together in January of 2020 after Michelle finished her volunteer program in Chile. In January 2021, we got our love of our life, our golden retriever Molo! We've traveled to over 30 cities together and have even brought Molo on countless vacations as well. We are so excited to share our love of travel with you all by gathering in one of the most gorgeous towns we have ever been in - Blanes, Spain! We are so excited and can't wait to see you soon! <3