Til Death DO US PART

As many of you know, Halloween has been Miranda's favorite holiday for many years but October of 2016 she had a few other priorities (mostly watching the Cubs win the World Series). She almost didn't attend a friend's annual Halloween party because she was planning to drive to Chicago with her brother the next morning (at 6am). Good thing she threw together a last minute costume (very un-Miranda like) and showed up because Travis was also there in an Indians baseball costume... While watching the 0-1 game (Indians won this one) Travis started talking a bit of trash and teasing Miranda (the only Cubs fan at the party). Miranda loved it. Bickering and laughing about baseball turned into talking about how much they both hated forced small talk & when people ask you "what do you do" essentially all traditional date conversation. Before the night ended Miranda put her phone number in Travis' phone and texted herself- she wasn't taking any chances. The night was a long one and somehow Miranda missed her 6am wake up call to drive to Chicago. The next day the two met up at Zenos (Miranda inviting herself over with her friend Abbey) and more teasing, drinking and flirting commenced along with what can only be described by Derek who was a witness as "lizard-tonging" at the bar. It was most definitely a connection at first conversation. Both Travis and Miranda said many times in those early days that it felt like they had known each other for years. Over the next week the Cubs beat the Indians to win the World Series and Travis and Miranda continued to spend just about every waking moment together. Proving that if you can start a relationship in the midst of your teams playing opposite in the World Series, you can probably get through anything. This also marked the best Halloween ever...... until 10/31/2020 when Travis popped the question in true Halloween fashion- in costume.