Back from Kansas City. I'll

Back from Kansas City. I’ll write up the full report tomorrow, but I’m still on such an adrenaline rush from the trip that I can’t wait any longer to give the highlights:
1) Matt and Stephanie got married, Matt looked very handsome, Stephanie was absolutely beautiful, the ceremony was short but sweet, the reception was fun, the dancing was even more fun, and Matt and Stephanie looked so happy that we all almost cried (and one person did cry — the one of us that you’d least expect).
2) The San Jose Earthquakes major league soccer team was staying on our floor at the hotel, not just on our floor, but in the rooms immediately surrounding us, and Jo lost all ability to speak, and I swooned a lot, and when one of the guys came out of the room next door to mine I recognized him from watching the 2002 World Cup as [name omitted for fear of Google searches], a.k.a. really freaking amazing world-caliber soccer player, and we joked with him as we were getting all dolled up for the wedding, and when we came back he was still awake, so we stuck a note under his door and a while later, just as we’d given up, he called my room, and so he came over and Jo, Becca, Nick, [incredibly hot pro soccer player] and I sat around talking about soccer, space and sex until 4 a.m. He was nice, articulate, very down-to-earth, and really fun to talk to. Oh, and he may not have been wearing a shirt.
So yeah, you could say it was a good vacation.