Ryan met Rebecca when he started work at Columbia Threadneedle Investments (then Columbia Management) in 2014; she had already worked there for a year as a Customer Service Professional for 529 Plans so she showed him the ropes and answered all of his questions - there were a lot of them - and they talked about things like camping, hiking, the Cape and animals. Becky was unavailable then but she and Ryan sat near each other and remained friends, including when he started working for Columbia in Boston. Finally in the summer of 2016 Ryan got a handful of texts from Becky that went something like: "I'm single now", "I love horses", "Would you like to go hiking with me?" A few hikes, a few dinners, lots of walks on our lunch breaks at work... and the rest is history!