One night in June, Joey and his friends were heading to a bar in Lincoln Park called Kincaide's after playing a game in their kickball league. At the same time Alexi was visiting Chicago for the weekend for another friend's wedding. By chance, a mutual friend between Alexi and Joey, invited Alexi to meet up with them at the bar that night. He also had mentioned to Alexi "the guy with the Bernese mountain dog was here." Alexi assuming she'd meet the dog got in an Uber to meet up with them. Alexi ended up sitting across from Joey, were the only two drinking water and with the NBA finals on, happened to impress Joey with her sports knowledge. As most people know, Joey introduced Alexi to his entire family that Sunday and flew to New York to visit her the following weekend. The rest was history.