people we love

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Across
  1. 5. I'm a professional foodie who never gets the lingo right
  2. 7. I have Governor Newsom's personal email account
  3. 9. I've been to a casino over 10 times and have never won money
  4. 11. I like whisky and would like to be a whisky sommelier but I am too lazy to actually be one
  5. 12. I have a culinary degree from the Culinary Institute of America
  6. 15. I was banned from entering the US but they can't keep me out
  7. 16. I'm a social butterfly who can find friends no matter what country I'm in
  8. 21. My parents and the doctor thought I was a boy until the second I was born
  9. 22. My name in Malay means sport; they have a festival in my name but it's for sports, not to commemorate me
  10. 24. We closed on a house in Denver on our very first visit to the city
  11. 27. I’ve ridden an ostrich and seen a great white shark face to face in the wild
  12. 30. I could still beat my son in basketball when he was on the high school team
  13. 32. I'm from Switzerland
  14. 35. Trading stocks is my mental therapy
  15. 36. I am Katarina and Adam's third wheel
  16. 37. I'm terrible at singing. Even when my children were very young, they would ask me to stop singing
  17. 38. I now have stuffed animals more than I had when I was a kid because my parents didn't allow me to buy many stuffed animals/dolls and then got married to Yeremia, who also loves stuffed animals
  18. 39. I like durian
  19. 41. I'm upgrading my python enclosure and am looking for tips on heating a 4x2x2 PVC ball python enclosure
  20. 42. I am forgetful to the point that I forgot where I parked my motorcycle and thought someone stole it and called the police
  21. 43. I can unicycle
  22. 45. I learned how to fly drones so I could take care of vineyards
  23. 46. Katarina was my summer camp counselor when I was 13. The year after that when she was camp director, I misbehaved and she made me serenade 'Call me Maybe' in front of the entire camp
  24. 47. I can wear junior size 2 shoes
  25. 48. I've been friends with the bride's family since I was 3
Down
  1. 1. I was born in Guanajuato, Mexico
  2. 2. I’ve hiked Kilimanjaro
  3. 3. I have a dog that loves to act like a cat
  4. 4. When I was growing up, I wanted to be an astronaut. I still want to be an astronaut
  5. 6. I lift 52.5 lbs on squats in a weight-lifting class
  6. 8. I've been to Antarctica
  7. 10. There are more pigs than people in my home state (Iowa)
  8. 11. I can sleep anywhere, including starbucks where they once thought I was homeless
  9. 13. I ran a summer camp with Katarina!
  10. 14. Please introduce me as the biggest coffee lover at this wedding ;)
  11. 17. I interviewed the son of an Italian prince -- I worked at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival and he was one of the filmmakers
  12. 18. If my friend can't finish a meal I'll eat it
  13. 19. I was a food tour guide in San Gabriel Valley
  14. 20. I've been known to store chips in the fridge
  15. 23. I'm an academic who studies spiders!
  16. 25. I published 2 journal articles in college with at least one citation
  17. 26. FAA records name me as the manufacturer of an airplane
  18. 27. My chocolate chip cookies got 2nd place in the 2019 Washington state fair
  19. 28. I'm a ballerina (I took 1 class)
  20. 29. I have 6-7 hobbies that I don't have time to do
  21. 31. I watch an insane amount of Netflix and love dim sum
  22. 33. We had to be rescued off the slopes of a volcano in Costa Rica by red cross volunteers once
  23. 34. I like to annoy my roommates by singing opera and dancing
  24. 39. I'm the father of twin toddler girls and am an avid board gamer
  25. 40. I play advent of code with kidder
  26. 42. My last name means tall (I am tall)
  27. 44. On my 25th birthday I drank a fifth of jagermeister in under 2 hours
  28. 46. I volunteer at a soup kitchen called Feeding Greene
  29. 47. I once ran a marathon in dress shoes