tennis with the Newsomes

My perfect night includes good friends and conversation.
Aaron's perfect night includes tennis.  He prefers to be playing it, but doesn't mind watching... as long as it's past world champions (namely Jim Courier, Michael Chang, John McEnroe and Andre Agassi.)
Lucky for us, our perfect nights collided!  The Champion Tennis Tournament was in Vegas and so were the Newsomes.  We've had this night planned for months.  So grateful nothing came up and we were actually able to make it happen!

Phyleen and Jonas are friends from high school.  They didn't really date, but I had a class with Jonas and he would always talk to me about how Phyleen was the perfect girl for him.  I love to see a true love story come to pass.  I adore this dear friend of mine.  She is sweet, funny, real, confident, down-to-earth and beautiful (inside and out.) We talked and talked and talked and got in trouble, even though we were whispering with our heads together.  We watched a little tennis too, but the conversation was just to good to sit and be quiet.

  

 Our husbands are both huge tennis fans and they are soon going to be BFFs too.  We sat on the 4th row and saw sweat dripping off of the tennis players faces.  It was perfect (but just a little cold, I had to wear Aaron's jacket like a snuggie.)

Andre Agassi is a Vegas hero.  We have seen firsthand the changes he has made to the community and worship him like the rest of the world.  He is amazing.  This is the third time we've been privileged to watch him play.. He is not an old man on the court..  

 At the end of the night, Andre was struggling in the last match, trying to outplay Jim Courier.  On match point, Phyleen yelled out "Finish him!" Everyone laughed, but Andre turned in our direction, looked and Phyleen and said, "I know, right?"  Her proud husband was beaming.  It was a perfect end to the best date ever.  Can't wait to hang with the Newsomes again soon (Indian Well tourney, here we come!)