Dear FFG,
There are really no words I can express to thank all of you enough, but I am going to try. For my birthday my wife let me go to the FFG Center to spend the entire weekend playing X Wing. I decided to flaunt my good fortune on the forums, in which I got a lot of great birthday wishes and good hearted spouts of jealousy from fellow x wingers that were not as fortunate 
Thank you guys for all the birthday wishes!
What happened when I got there was not expected though. My wing man Jason and I finally got there around 2 and I proceeded to check my list off. Surley Beer (check), FFG Grilled Cheese (check), new squad set up (miranda, jan ors, and Airen Craken) ( check). You guys were not kidding about that grilled cheese by the way... amazing!
Then about half way through our first game Alex Davy walks up! This was awesome! He had to visit his mom for her 60th birthday but took time to come down and say Hi and signed some IG 88's.....all of them , even got a little x wing talk in before he had to go!
This trip was already great but it was far from over! After the first game Ryan Thompson stopped by!!! For those of you who don't know him he works on the awesome tutorial videos for all of FFG's games (I hope iIgot that right Ryan ) We got to meet him, talk some shop, he signed one of my cards (Royal Guard Interceptor was a very nice choice!). Truly a cool guy.
Through the Third game and probably 5th or 6th beer, Frank Brooks and Steven Kimball stopped over! The amount of hospitality FFG was displaying was over the top! Frank and Steven both took the time out of their schedule to talk about everything, not just x wing but new games they just came out with (Fury of Dracula) but also games they are playing and what its like working at FFG. Steven was the first producer for x wing and chose out the imperial Kath Scarlet to sign for me because he worked like crazy to get Lucas to let them use her! Then it was Frank's turn to sign a card. I always let them choose which card they want to sign and they both started laughing. Steven said he should sign the original Liea, because the third "maneuver" word on the card is misspelled. He is sort of embarrassed of it because he said they stare at those cards for hours before they go out and how they didn't catch it is mystifying. So Jason actually had the original Liea, and Frank graciously signed it
I thought the parade of hospitality was over by the fourth game but then Wade Piche stopped by! Well not really stopped by, literally hung out with us while he waited for another co-worker got off work! We talked about all the cool stuff that he has done and how great the OP guys have all been with our game of X Wing and how eagerly we are all awaiting what is in store for the future. Then he sat around and watched our game giving us some pointers and talking tactics as we played out a nail bitter of a game. Thanks Wade for everything 
Finally the night got closer to the end, we raced to get our fifth or sixth game down before closing the store down at midnight! It was one of the greatest experiences and birthdays a geek could have. I want to thank all of the guys that came by and all of the Game Center staff for giving a guy one hell of a day!
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!!!!
Jason and I closing down the FFG Center after a great day!
The Collection so far....
Top line: Wade Piche, Steven Kimball, Ryan Thompson
Middle Line: Paul Heaver, James Kniffen, Frank Brooks (Leia and Torkil)
Bottom: Alex Davy, Boba and IG's
