How We Met

We met three times in three ways. Within a few weeks of Tom's moving to Fredericton we had connected twice through two very different people, and once while rock climbing.

Elizabeth Gormon:
In late 2010 Kaitlyn decided to pursue her Reiki Level II under the instruction of a friend from her natural horsemanship lessons. After completing her Reiki with Elizabeth, Kaitlyn and Elizabeth stayed in touch often.

A few weeks later Tom was making his way to Fredericton, taking the train along the St Lawrence to Moncton before busing to his new home. A snow storm had shut down most of Moncton, leaving him searching hopelessly for somewhere where he could get hot water for some tea. The only store open was a natural food store, Sequoia. Inside, Tom started chatting with the cashier, who introduced him to a girl who had recently moved to Moncton from Fredericton (Elizabeth). After discussing green buildings she offered to connect him with some of her friends from Fredericton.

Shortly afterwards Kaitlyn received an email from Elizabeth telling her that she'd met a really sweet guy who was moving to Fredericton to study wood engineering. Elizabeth said Tom was into all the green building stuff and suggested Kaitlyn get in touch with him. A few days later Kaitlyn followed up on Elizabeth's suggestion and contacted Tom, agreeing to meet up.

That email was our first contact.

Alanna Erdle:
Kaitlyn had started rock climbing with a colleague from work's girlfriend, who mentioned a friend of hers from Queens would be moving to Fredericton to pursue graduate studies in wood engineering. When Kaitlyn received the email from Elizabeth about Tom, she had her suspicions that it was the same guy and in their first email exchange, Tom confirmed it was! How crazy is that?!

UNB Rock & Ice:

While maybe not as impressively coincidental as the others, the rock wall at UNB served as a third meeting point, where we were introduced by Alanna before an agreed upon pub meeting. Although brief at first, it would be during and after our frequent sessions at the bouldering gym that we would really get to know each other and spend hours together.


Anyways, the three ways we met was only the beginning to our amazing relationship.