Ali moved to Dallas right before the pandemic and spent the majority of her weekends hanging out with her niece Blake (and Dan and Sarah). Lots of backyard pool days, lake days, family competitions and virtual bingo. Despite all that fun, Dan and his Little Elm crew decided to spend a weekend away from Dallas (and thus, Ali). That said, Ali decided it was time to get out of her comfort zone. Joel was living his bachelor lifestyle getting to enjoy more time in Dallas due to travel restrictions from COVID. He spent more time on the golf course than his bumble profile but still managed to swindle Ali into swiping right. After a couple weeks of communicating via the app (Joel didn’t want Ali to know he was a green text kind of guy), Joel got the courage to ask Ali out for drinks. Insert City Counsel bar (RIP), texas queso, and a competitive game of corn hole (Joel will deny losing to this day) and the rest is history!