About Us
Protests, Blood Diamonds, and Anti-Wal Mart = Romance
We met Wed. November 16th 2005 at an anti-Wal Mart documentary that Kate hosted at BYU, called “Wal Mart, the high cost of low prices.” Neil came to the screening and we chatted a bit before the film started. We discovered that we had both been to Thailand that summer, and Neil said, “Hey, we should make Thai food some time.” We were both very intrigued by the other, and went about finding out information on the other through mutual friends after that night.
Neil asking about that “Kelly Clarkson” girl that he had met, and Kate about what people knew about Neil. It turns out we had many mutual friends, and had attended many of the same functions but, somehow we had never met. Later we were discussing the diamond trade, and Kate mentioned a blood-diamonds poster she loved that she had procured from a friend and had up in her apt. It turns out Neil is the one who made and distributed those posters. Many similar coincidences were discovered. We wondered how we had gone so long without meeting each other.
Neil then attended a musical concert at Kate’s house by Kate’s friend Colby Stead that Saturday Nov. 19th which was a magical evening for everyone. He again mentioned to Kate that they should get together.
A cross-country road-trip for Kate delayed our first date. But, when I returned and before Neil headed back to Fargo for Christmas we went out for the first time and had delicious Margarita pizza. We talked non-stop with lots of opinions and ambitions to share, and somehow on that date Kate wrangled herself into Neil’s planned week-long roadtrip with friends to Baja Mexico during Christmas break.
We left for the Baja on Dec. 26th and had a wonderfully fun adventure driving all the way down to Cabo San Lucas. The first night we kissed was on a beach called “Lover’s Beach” on the southernmost tip of the Baja on New Year’s eve 2005. It was a wonderful beginning to a new year, and a wonderful begining to our relationship.
