In April of 2015, we briefly met at a group camping trip for a mutual friend's birthday. And that's it! We parted ways probably only having said 10 words total to each other. A year and a half later we reconnected, life giving us a second chance at love. For our first date, Alex picked Rachel up at her SF apartment in a Lyft (the modern gentleman) and took her out to dinner. The conversation flowed and we formed a quick connection, bonding over our love of family, friends, food, and travel. Afterwards we went for drinks, where Alex very spontaneously went in for the first kiss. A 'Power move' you might say! Well it worked! A year later we moved in together, 3 years after that we officially got married in an intimate ceremony, and now we're living happily ever after in Pleasant Hill.