Once upon a time, Rod moved to DC and joined a kickball team that Danielle's friend Tanvi was on with her husband Nick. Tanvi invited Danielle to join the kickball team, and that's when Danielle and Rod met while wearing sweaty kickball clothes on the National Mall. After several months of hanging out in the friend group, including many late nights at Astro's Beer Hall complete with skeeball competitions, Danielle tripping on wet floors while demonstrating Muay Thai kicks, and Rod beating Danielle at Connect Four and chugging *water* competitions (which Danielle previously thought she was almost unbeatable at), Danielle & Rod eventually started to text. One thing led to another... including an unintentional New Years trip together to the Bahamas, where we developed our mutual love of island travel. And the rest was history :)