Our story starts with Derek stealing Elizabeth’s smoothie. 

A few of us were walking up to third floor at work to get a beverage from the coffee shop and Elizabeth was talking up their smoothies. She was so needing a strawberry mango smoothie that day. When they got there, Elizabeth let Derek cut in line ahead of her. He orders a peach smoothie. Elizabeth’s turn! She orders her drink. They’re out of yogurt to make anymore smoothies!! 

It couldn’t have been timed any better. Derek was just taking his first suck on the straw and realizing the magic of the smoothie to simultaneously see Elizabeth semi- fake death glaring him and saying “You...”. The barista felt so bad, she gave Elizabeth a Dixie cup of what didn’t fit in Derek’s cup.

And that’s the story of how Elizabeth discovered their frozen lemonade was actually pretty tasty. 

This ended up being the initial foundation of our relationship including how Derek asked Elizabeth for a date... sort of? (See image 1 about smoothie science)
From there it lead to only more debauchery including a wonderful April Fools joke about us breaking up. Several people called us on it, but we managed to redirect them into believing it was real.