Kyle and Sam first met when Sam was bartending at Whiskey Junction in 2016. Kyle caught her eye the very first time she saw him, but he was a bit shy, or something. Who knows.

December 2017: After a long and entertaining conversation on her birthday, Sam gave Kyle her phone number. He did not get the hint, and thought it was just so that he could call her about a house party that night, so called and said there was no party, and then never called again. There was an attempt to meet up tailgating in Iowa City via Snapchat, but Iowa City becomes a dead zone on game day, so our attempt was met with failure.

Mid-2019: Sam finally realized that this "Jan and Oscar" her parents kept asking her about were Kyle's parents. Sam ran into Kyle and informed him that our parents are good friends and have been for years. Kyle said something along the lines of "No shit!" and laughed. Sam went home.

Fall of 2019: Sam realized that she needs to take a more direct approach with Kyle and asked him to meet her for drinks and darts after work. That night happened to be Kyle's birthday and the last night of the End Zone, so Kyle had partied pretty hard. Kyle realized it was time to go home and bad the bad decision to try to get home himself. Sam thought he lived near our friend, Sarah, so she arranged for Sarah to take Kyle home. Sarah and Kyle did not live near each other at all, but Sarah was a good sport. There's plenty more entertaining parts to this story, but that's for another time. Somehow Kyle got the hint after this, and he and Sam started dating, finally becoming an official couple in October, 2019.

It only took us 3 years, but we got there eventually!