Justin and Stephanie Shults, a couple from the American heartland found adventure in the heart of Europe.

After marrying in 2014, the couple, both accountants who met at Vanderbilt University in 2011, found jobs in Brussels. Nearly every weekend they set out across the Continent — running with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, visiting an ice hotel in Sweden, walking along the canals in Amsterdam, dining in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower.

In the same Brussels airport they had happily visited many times before, the Shultses were killed on Tuesday, the victims of suicide bombers. Confirmation of their deaths came on Saturday.

On Sunday, President Obama contacted the couple’s families to extend his condolences, a White House official said.