Vanessa and Andy met in Portsmouth, NH for a blind date one February evening in 2018 after meeting through a dating website. At the time, Vanessa was working in Merrimack Valley of MA and living in the Seacoast NH area. Andy was working in Boston and commuted from Cambridge riding the bus from South Station, just behind his office, to Portsmouth to meet Vanessa for the first time. Vanessa picked Andy up at the bus station and began to enlighten the New Yorker about the Seacoast area of Maine and New Hampshire. To kick off the date, both enjoyed dinner and had great conversation while at the Thirsty Moose despite Andy being perplexed by the volume of televisions broadcasting the Winter Olympics. Afterward, an evening stroll nearby Prescott Park across the bridge into Maine and Strawberry Banke capped off an incredible first date and the rest is, as they say, history.