Our first year together in college felt like a constant honeymoon — we had no real-life responsibilities or things to stress about. We were just two young kids enjoying college, wandering the streets of Philly, having good food, and laughing about stupid things.

At the time, I didn’t think our lives could get any more fun or interesting than our college years, but after we graduated, our lives became the most interesting rollercoaster that never went down.

We saw concerts at the Kennedy Center, hiked the mountains of rural Virginia, danced in a fancy ballroom to A Million Dreams, pulled hay bales at fall festivals, went on every ride at Disney at least 4 times, conquered brown recluse spiders and copperhead snakes in our apartment, rented an actual Hobbit home on Airbnb, learned to drive a boat in Big Bear, ate our way through Charlottesville, saw my favorite violinist in Toronto, watched Shin Lim perform magic in Vegas, and so much more in between.