Mari:
We met on Zoom during the pandemic. I had just started at Concacaf, and we had our Gold Cup coming, so we were on weekly calls together. I remember telling my best friends I had a cute guy at work, but with my luck he was either going to be too young or too short (we all know which one of the two that was).


Fast forward to April, things started opening again, so we met for the first time in person at DVR PNK doing an inspection. He seemed very eager to say hi, we chatted a bit, but that was all.


Then, to our luck, we got stuck in Dallas together for a month. He was a pain in my butt. He would wake me up early to make me go work out with him, he would steal my second screen, he would bother me until I ate (I don't eat at events when I'm stressed), soon we were going to go watch movies and hungout on our free days.


Once we came home, he "forgot" his suit in my car when I gave him a ride home from the airport, and he used that excuse to hang out again. We started going out almost every weekend.


Then on the 25th of September he asked me out to Miami Spice, we got dressed up had amazing food and on the way home he asked me to be his girlfriend with a beautiful love note, and well the rest is history...




Blake:
Willis and I actually met at DRV PNK Stadium in Ft. Lauderdale while doing a site visit for work. She arrived late but immediately caught my eye. We chatted about basketball and our parents living in Texas. She was sweet, but I could tell she was in to me ;)


It wasn't until Mari and I were stationed in Dallas for 3 weeks that we really hit it off. I would do everything I could to get some time alone with her, which were 7 am workouts and breakfast - Mari's favorites. We laughed, flirted, made cheesy bets, and enjoyed one anothers company while on the road.


Once back home, I finnessed my way into a date at Mari's house where she made Puerto Rican Lasagna. I'm not sure if it was the food, the wine, or her, but from that night on, dinner dates and weekends together became the moments I looked forward to most...and that still hasnt changed to this day.