You know how you hear about people finding the love of their life through online dating & you roll your eyes & think that can't actually work . . . well I guess you've never tried it! Ryan & I met through Facebook's online dating app. Covid was in full swing & even though we were all stuck inside, the both of us still created online dating profiles in hopes of finding that special someone. I had never even considered doing this, but friends & family told me to give it a try. After weeks & weeks of going through some interesting profiles, I came across Ryan. He had found me & 'liked' my profile. His profile sounded wonderful, although I had to look up who Pam Beesly was. Ryan had put that he was looking for his "Pam Beesly". I thought okay, if this is some supermodel, etc then I'm outta here. Ha. But I did think that I had heard that name somewhere before. Google to the rescue! Pan Beesly is a lovely character on the show The Office - one of Ryan's all time favorite shows. Her character is shy, growing assertive but amiable, artistically inclined, and shares a romantic interest with Jim Halpert, whom she begins dating, and eventually, marries & starts a family with as the series continues. That won me over & the fact that he said he wanted to find someone to travel the world with. His main profile picture was of him traveling through Europe. 'Like' 'Like' 'Like'. We started talking online & on the phone for 2 months before we even met in person. It was wonderful. We really got to know each other so much better this way. We set up themes everyday to help! We would send a picture to each other of anything we wanted to share & then would tell each other the story behind the picture. We learned about friends, family, likes, dislikes, etc. Then we finally met! I was dropping a surprise off at his house & decided we needed to meet. He was waiting to come home from work after I had left, but I called him & said why wait? He came home & we had an outside date! It was perfect