Corey and I met *drumroll please*. . . At Earth Treks Englewood. The climbing gym where so much of our story has taken place. If you ask Corey, he'll say he'd seen me there a few times before he got up the courage to say anything to me. When he finally gathered the courage to initiate conversation, it came out as him spraying beta at me while I was halfway up a bouldering wall (yelling up to me what to do on the climb I was on). While beta spraying is typically not considered the most appreciated thing to do to someone, he was lucky I thought he was cute. I came off the wall and we talked for a moment and went our separate ways. No phone number exchange or nothin'! That evening, I was sitting in my car about to leave the gym parking lot. I spotted Corey getting to his car and watched him play jumping around with Zeus in the parking lot. I wondered if he lived in his little Jeep Compass with his big dog. . . And then decided I'd probably fall in love with him. A couple days later I saw Corey in the gym again. This time, I gathered up the courage to ask for his number so we could climb together sometime. We've been climbing together ever since!