"Date day"
Today is a holiday, but only in this family. It is "date day". it marks the anniversary of Wendy and Pete's first in-person date.
We first chatted online on my birthday: January 7th, 1999. Chats turned to a reluctant phone call, and several long stories later, we met in person for the first time on March 13th, 1999. She was living at her work in Lynn, MA (an apartment came with the job, nobody would live in Lynn on purpose). I lived in Lowell, MA which is nearly 40 miles away. If not for the internet, we would never have met.
Between the phone and the computer, we had probably talked for hundreds of hours and sort of knew each other really well before we came face to face. Interesting how little wires run through the side of your house can make such an impact on your world.
Our first date was to be a trip to the Peabody-Essex museum in Salem, MA. We never actually went inside, instead ending up driving around, talking, going out for Thai food, visiting a historic cemetary etc.
The rest is history, or at least living history. We got married at Fort #4 at the end of July after spending two weeks living in my Dodge van as we made our way to Louisburg and back for the 1999 Grand Encampment. Basically, her third living history event was our wedding. Since they wouldn't give her two weeks off to get married and go on her honeymoon, she quit her job to go on the trip.
Caleigh was born in September of 2001, and I lost my job as a mechanic while on family leave to take care of the new baby and recovering Mama. That's when I took the family's part-time sutler business that we had been involved in since 1993 and went full time with it, resulting in the MVTCo you know today.
It all started with a single email sent to SaraLynn33@aol.com
We first chatted online on my birthday: January 7th, 1999. Chats turned to a reluctant phone call, and several long stories later, we met in person for the first time on March 13th, 1999. She was living at her work in Lynn, MA (an apartment came with the job, nobody would live in Lynn on purpose). I lived in Lowell, MA which is nearly 40 miles away. If not for the internet, we would never have met.
Between the phone and the computer, we had probably talked for hundreds of hours and sort of knew each other really well before we came face to face. Interesting how little wires run through the side of your house can make such an impact on your world.
Our first date was to be a trip to the Peabody-Essex museum in Salem, MA. We never actually went inside, instead ending up driving around, talking, going out for Thai food, visiting a historic cemetary etc.
The rest is history, or at least living history. We got married at Fort #4 at the end of July after spending two weeks living in my Dodge van as we made our way to Louisburg and back for the 1999 Grand Encampment. Basically, her third living history event was our wedding. Since they wouldn't give her two weeks off to get married and go on her honeymoon, she quit her job to go on the trip.
Caleigh was born in September of 2001, and I lost my job as a mechanic while on family leave to take care of the new baby and recovering Mama. That's when I took the family's part-time sutler business that we had been involved in since 1993 and went full time with it, resulting in the MVTCo you know today.
It all started with a single email sent to SaraLynn33@aol.com
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