It all started at a surprise birthday party for one of our mutual friends. Both of us had promised ourselves that we were too busy to date. Sahara was deep in school and work, and Thrice was hard at work to make money for his school. But the second we saw each other, it was game over. Neither of us was looking for a relationship, but fate had other plans. After finding out that we had already met briefly online 2 years ago, we talked the entire night, completely inseparable, and by the end of it, we ended up talking for nine hours straight! At one point during the party, we ended up completing a cute puzzle together. Right after that, the party ran out of cups, and Thrice, out of nowhere, volunteered to get more. Sahara thought maybe he didn’t want to talk to her anymore, while Thrice was convincing himself that he probably shouldn’t be talking to her at all. Sahara wanted to ask if she could go with him, but since they’d only just met an hour ago, it felt too weird. Meanwhile, Thrice was out in his car, cleaning out a seat, trying to work up the nerve to ask her to come along. Spoiler alert: we both chickened out. At the end of the night, Thrice pulled a slick move, sliding his phone over for Sahara’s number. Everyone at the party told us it was a terrible idea. But only 2 weeks later, we decided on a whim to take a trip to California after our planned Grand Canyon visit and the universe gave us our first curveball: a flat tire in the middle of nowhere. Waiting for 3 hours on the side of the road for a tow truck and spending the night with Thrice’s family in Kingsman wasn’t part of the plan, but it somehow brought us even closer. Two years later, after many more unexpected adventures, here we are, about to embark on the biggest adventure of all!