Jack and I met in late February of 2020. Jack was in town for the Houston Rodeo cookoff, and mutual friends invited us to dinner the Thursday before the Cookoff. After dinner, the group wanted to go to Armandos, and there, I got to witness Jack’s epic dance moves for the first time. Thanks to some liquid courage in the form of Armando’s Margaritas, I made my way over to Jack  and we spent the next couple of hours salsa dancing and chatting.

The next day was the Cookoff. I met up with the same group as the night before and we all ate barbecue and listened to the band at our tent. Later on, Jack and I snuck off and played some carnival games and exchanged phone numbers. It was such a fun and memorable weekend, but it was also the weekend before Covid happened.

Jack and I wouldn’t talk again until August 2021, when again, thanks to some liquid courage, I slid into his Instagram DMs. He took me to Tiny Boxwoods a few days later for our first date, and the rest is history!