We met at the beach in 1996 when Ormonde's family was vacationing in Perdido Key and Chris was in the Navy stationed at Pensacola NAS. We hit it off and ran up crazy phone bills (long distance dating before cell phones, texting, and video chat!). Long distance dating was really hard when Chris was transferred to Virgina Beach and we went our separate ways, but unbeknownst to us, lived 5 miles apart in Virginia when Ormonde was in college. Fast forward through the years, and we reconnected in 2017 and fell in love all over again.