Fate was born in an airport

While the title of this blog is "Life as we know it", the web address is fatewasborninanairport.  If you really looked at what that long string of letters said you would notice that it says fate was born in an airport.  When I was choosing a domain name I wanted it to be something that reflected my husband and I.  For those of you that don't know how we met, here's the brief run down.

On July 26, 2003 I was headed to Chicago for my dear friend Katie's baby shower.  After a 45 minute silent ride to the airport, my ex boyfriend dropped me off at the curb of the airport, which at this point in my life was absolutely devastating.  I immediately burst into tears as I walked through the Kansas City airport to  my terminal.  As I sat there feeling very sorry for myself I saw a guy wearing jeans and a black Calvin Klein shirt carrying A LOT of stuff.  I pulled myself together as he sat in the same small terminal as myself. 

When I got on the airplane there were two girls traveling together, however one was in my row and one was sitting in the row in front of me.  I asked the girls if they would like to switch seats with me so they could sit next to each other.  Low and behold when I switched seats I was sitting across the aisle from the guy in the black Calvin Klein shirt ;)  Coincidence? I think not!

We argue about who initiated the conversation, but I know that I am right on this one.  We were delayed and the guy in the black Calvin Klein shirt asked me if I knew what time it was. I said that I didn't but it just so happened to strike up a conversation between the two of us.  Now for those of you that have flown from Kansas City to Chicago you know that it is maybe an hour flight.  In that hour we had a nice casual conversation about what we do, school, etc.  The guy in the black Calvin Klein shirt gave me his business card but I however didn't have one since I was going to start teaching that August.  I did however ask for a piece of paper and made my own "business card" with my name, the school I would be teaching for, my title and cell phone number.  Clever, huh?

After our short flight we parted our own seperate ways with little more than our "business cards" and a casual conversation.  When I got off the plane to meet my friend Katie, I told her I might a boy on the plane.  I think at that point she thought I was crazy! 

I have to admit that I was the first to email the guy with the black Calvin Klein shirt but let it be noted that his response was very quick.  I know its hard to believe but all of this was before myspace (mywhat?) or facebook.  We relied on emails, AOL instant messenger and eventually calling cards (the guy in the balck Calvin Klein shirt didn't have a cell phone).

I'll spare you the rest of the details but on October 10, 2009 the guy in the black Calvin Klein shirt and I got married.  This was of course after he proposed to me on an airplane on our way to New York for my birthday :)

When thinking about how we met, the only thing I can attribute it to is fate.  We were supposed to meet that day. I don't think either of us knew where it would lead 9 years ago but I'm certainly glad that I asked the girls if they would like to switch seats with me. 

So, I guess it wasn't such a short story but I truly belive that fatewasborninanairport.  Oh and by the way.....the guy in the black Calvin Klein shirt still has my "businss card" ;)

Until next time....