Adam and Heidi met on August 1, 2006 on a hot DC evening over margaritas at Las Placitas near Eastern Market. They were having dinner with a mutual friend who insisted they be introduced (though surprisingly with ZERO intention of setting them up).
After that meeting, they began chatting online, and virtually stalking one another until a month later when he invited her to a Snowpatrol concert at the 9:30 Club with a group of his friends. She agreed, the night after (9/11) they met for dinner after the Congressional Remembrance ceremony (which she couldn’t get into without staff id, a detail Adam neglected to remember) and spent hours chatting about everything and nothing over dumplings at Hunan Dynasty.
A couple weeks later, the mutual friend again suggested they hang out, she was going to be out of town and since she knew Heidi was still new in town, said “hang out with Adam, he’ll introduce you to all his friends” (also for networking purposes). So they did. They went for drinks Friday, closed down Finn MacCool’s on 8th street, met for breakfast over Dunkin’ Donuts (a mutual favorite) which Adam brought to Heidi’s Pentagon City house, and spent the day watching dvd’s, and shopping before meeting for an unofficial date that Saturday night. The weekend ended the next night with a late night Capitol Tour where he twirled her around under the Rotunda of the Capitol. It was, a perfect beginning to something amazing.
(and they lived happily ever after…no really!)