bloggy friends week! we fell in love...

Welcome to Nugget On A Budget's Bloggy Friends Week! 

This week I'm in Arizona with Hubs and Baby Girl for our friend's wedding {having a fabulous time!}. I've rounded up a few of my bloggy besties and two other awesome ladies to guest post on here while I'm gone.

I hope you enjoy getting to know these lovelies as much as I did!

Sylvia blogs over at Sweet Pea Sylvie and we got to know each other after I won a giveaway that she was hosting. {Which is how I came to own a lovely blog button designed by her!} She also co-hosts the Followers To Friends blog hop every Wednesday. Her blog is refreshing and honest. Sylvia and her partner just welcomed an adorable baby boy in June.

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Tav and I on
the morning of our graduation.

It was the last semester of my degree, and I had taken a free choice drama paper to make up my points to graduate. I had noticed a nice guy in our class who was really great at all the impromptu skits - he always had me in fits of laughter.

One day walking home from that class I was waiting at the lights. I looked up and realised he was waiting to cross the road too. We made eye contact so in an effort to be friendly I blurted out a question about the poems we had to recite for an assessment. We continued our small talk, and found ourselves walking home together, having a conversation about poems.

The following assessment required us to attend and analyse live performances. There was a play of the British comedy sitcom 'Ello 'Ello on at a local theater which I wanted to attend. I asked the guy if he was going, and said he would organise us tickets. I offered to pay him back for my ticket but he suggested I could organise the next performance for us to attend instead (smooth one Tav).  I chose Joseph and The Technicolour Dreamcoat.

We ended up attending way more theater than was required for the assessment, just so we had an excuse to see each other. It was quite funny because it was like dating without officially dating, plus it was such an unconventional way to get to know each other which was fun. I have a major love for all performing arts, so I was delighted to have found someone who shared the same interest.

I even dragged him along to an interactive silent contemporary dance performance, and we politely discussed the artistic merits of it (even though in retrospect he probably found the whole thing weird and hilarious).

Finally after more theater performances, a museum trip and an art film, he plucked up the courage to invite me to dinner (a real date this time) and as they say the rest was history!

After graduating we moved to Wellington which is the arts central of NZ. Once settled in, we did things a little backwards and chose babies over marriage. Our son was born in June this year.

We still attend theater together and reminisce, even though it's much harder now with our son. Now days it's mostly the Royal New Zealand Ballet performances. I think we've seen every season they've had in the last two years. It's our 'thing'.

I always smile when I tell this story. It amazed me that we lived down the road from each other, studied the same degree, used the same library & computer lab, and walked the same route for 3 years, yet we never met until the last semester. I don't normally believe in destiny or fate, but for us both to be at the lights that day was certainly the perfect coincidence.

Thanks for letting me share this with your readers Kera, I hope you all enjoyed it!

Sylvia x