Back in 2013, Sarah lived along the lake just outside Cleveland, Ohio and Garrett lived in Gillette, WY. Sarah has worked as a flight attendant for United Airlines for over nine years and has lived in various cities around the US. Garrett, although originally from Minnesota, had gone to college in South Dakota and eventually started working for Peabody Energy in Wyoming as an industrial engineer and business analyst in the Continuous Improvement department. A mutual friend, Eden West, who had known Sarah when they lived in Russia together had married Ty West, a Wyoming native "a cowboy," and moved out to live with him in the tiny, rural town of Gillette. Garrett, who had lived in Gillette for a few years, had decided to take some swing dancing lessons and met Eden and Ty there one day after class. Eden, being a two time successful matchmaker, decided to try and set Garrett and Sarah up, which took a bit of effort on her part to convince Sarah to come all the way out to Wyoming to meet this random fellow. Once she succeeded, Garrett obligingly met up for an evening double date dinner and asked Sarah out for a single date for the following day while she was still in town. They went to a Planetarium and out to a Chinese restaurant for dinner. That night Sarah also had the pleasure of going to the "outdoor museum," a small grassy area mainly consisting of large scale equipment used in mining operations. While the outdoor museum didn't impress her much, Garrett's sweet and nerdy personality did. Long after the first date, Garrett kept up with Sarah and eventually in July of that year the couple made their dating official. :) Sarah continued to live in Cleveland until late 2013 and the couple alternated going back and forth to visit one another until she took an opportunity to improve her schedule at work and her dating life all at once by transferring to Denver, CO base with United. Thanks to the flying benefits the couple is able to see each other almost every weekend and are very much looking forward to living in the same city in the future.