How the Adventure began...

October 2014...

Justin was headed to Egypt to take a much needed break after finishing a recent degree to visit with Joe and Lori Lawson... friends he had known for 20 years!.

Angela was headed to Egypt for a transition break between living in Uganda and moving to China.  She had know Joe & Lori Lawson for just a couple of years but had been down to Egypt on a couple of occasions assisting with their work there.

Justin flew in first... Angela a couple of days later.  When Angela arrived Joe and Justin went to the airport to pick her up in the wee hours of the morning

A few hours later, when the sun had come up, Justin greeted Angela with a cup of freshly brewed coffee.  She likes to joke that "He didn't have me at hello... He had me at coffee!"

A day later we boarded an airplane to Luxor and started an amazing adventure of hot air ballooning over King Tut's tomb and Valley of the kings along with exploring Karnak temple and the Luxor museum.  This led to sharing our love for adventures.

Over the next three weeks, we climbed to the top of the Giza pyramids... we explored tombs of ancient pharoahs...survived Imotep... and Justin kept Angela from being traded for two wives.

By the end of the trip Justin shared that Angela had given him hope that a woman could love him for him.  They agreed upon parting ways to stay in touch.

Angela moved to China upon leaving Egypt to teach English with Disney... Justin went home to Southern California to continue his work at University of LaVerne.  As their agreement, they kept in contact.  For 14 months, weekly skype dates were held along with emails and text.  Over this time, many topics were discussed and the relationship continued to grow.

October 2015...

Angela flew back to the US for a two week break to meet up with her parents at Disney World.  She met up with Justin in Southern California and had lunch with his family before flying to Florida together.

They spent two weeks going to all of the Disney parks and Universal Studios... exploring Epcot's food and wine festival... and attending Mickey's not so scary spooktacular.

At the end of the time in Disney, we were both settled on the fact that we needed to be on the same continent to see where this relationship was headed.

Over the next couple of months... Angela was offered a job in Southern California and decided that it was time to move back to the US.

December 2015... Angela finished her contract with Disney and flew back stateside for Christmas.  She spent Christmas Eve with Justin's family and then flew to NC to spend time with her family.

By January she had moved to California where they were able to start up a "normal" dating relationship.  Which leads us to today...