We met during New Student Orientation at Lewis & Clark College where we were placed in the same group. We clicked immediately and ended up sitting together at convocation and racing each other across the estate gardens before he walked me back to my dorm that night.

I was leaving for China in two days and we went on a "last" date around Portland. We visited the Pittock Mansion before ending up at the Japanese Gardens where we sat in a gazebo in the back talking and laughing. Right before he got down on one knee, a nurse walked past who thought he was suffering a heart attack. But he was just nervous! After he pulled out the ring, all the anxiety just melted away. We were engaged!