YES! I MET PATTI!!! (But Not Yet--First We Had to GET There ... )

(Oh, and one of Patti's sons was there.You know, What's-His-Name--the darker-haired one.He skates or something. Whatev.)
So you know how you sort of get to know people, like maybe you meet them over the Internet, and you correspond a little, and over time you find yourself maybe kind of connecting with each other, and even discovering that you really, really admire some of these people, and then