The rest of the weekend was practically paradise. Ted and Tracy met up at the bar a while later and got to know each other. They had almost everything in common, and Ted could feel himself falling in love. He'd never felt this way about anyone before, not even Robin! This surprised him, but it made him extremely happy at the same time.

"Why can't I just go up to the Lighthouse?" asked an angry Ted to Curtis, who continued to insist that it was very romantic, and very high lighthouse, and he would hate to have to clean up Ted's blood. Thankfully, right at that moment, Tracy showed up to save him. "Are you going up to the lighthouse? I've been wanting to do that! I'll go with you!" Ted silently thanked her as he took the brochure from Curtis and gave him a triumphant look.

"This view is breathtakingly beautiful." Says Tracy. Ted loved the way she talked so sophisticated.

"It's not as beautiful as you." He couldn't stop himself from saying it. She looked at him and smiled, a little embarrassed.

"What? Come on!"

"I mean it, Tracy. You are gorgeous. I have had the time of my life this weekend, and it's all thanks to you."

She stared directly into Ted's eyes, and then they were kissing. Completely spontaneous. Then Ted felt something bad. That morning he decided to have shrimp for breakfast. Possibly one of the worst mistakes of his life. He quickly broke apart from Tracy and vomited off the side of the lighthouse.

"That bad, huh?" asked Tracy as she leaned over. Her face then went blank when she saw the vomit. She covered her mouth, and in the next second she was vomiting too. When the two of them were both finished they stood there in silence. Finally Tracy said "It's like travelling back in time."

"That is exactly what I was thinking!" The two of them got into an intimate conversation about the beauty of things, and both of them were extremely thankful they decided not to talk about the vomit.

The Lighthouse and the kiss weren't the only good parts of their weekend either. Ted realized that he had to quit his job in Chicago. He knew he'd only known her for a couple of days (give or take the amount of time that passed in between their first meeting), but he knew he was in love with her. Druthers was pissed that Ted quit his job, but Ted hung up on him before he could yell at him anymore. When he told Lily about it the first things out of her mouth were "Yousonofabeetch! How could you put me through that! Now I have to tell Marshall that you're not moving!"

"You told Marshall?!"

"…no."

"Ugh. Lily, look, I really really love this girl, and I think she's worth it."

Lily looked at him skeptically. "You're sure you're over Robin?"

He pondered it for a second before coming to the conclusion. "Yeah. Yeah, I am."

Lily sighed. "Good. Fine. You have my blessing, go get this girl, Ted."

By the end of the day Ted and Tracy had already gone on another date. Well, technically they counted the ice skating rehearsal dinner as a date. Tracy wouldn't stop making fun of Ted's Liberace costume, and the two of them shared a lot of laughs over it. Later, when the rehearsal dinner was coming to a close, Barney came up to the two of them, more excited than usual.

"Hey! Girl with Ted!" he shouted from about half a mile away. He kept shouting as he skated towards them. "It's me! That guy you met at the drug store and then we went out onto a bench and had a deep emotional talk! I'll be really surprised if I have to get any more specific than that!" by the time he was finished talking, he had reached them.

"Yes, I remember you! Looks like you finally won the game!"

"Yeah. Yeah I did. It's all thanks to you." Ted had no idea what they were talking about, but Tracy blushed.

"Your name's Barney right?" He confirmed that it was and she introduced herself and they shook hands.

"Do you remember when I said I could set you up with someone but I was drawing a blank?"

Tracy glanced at Ted before saying that she remembered. Barney then pointed at Ted and said "This was the guy! He was the guy I was thinking of! See Ted, the universe has a way of working things out!" Barney then slapped Ted in the face.

"God, what the hell, Barney?"

"That wasn't me. It was the universe." He then gave the two of them a devilish grin and ice skated off to join his soon to be bride.

"Okay, well now you have to tell me what that was about." Says Ted. Tracy laughs and tells him the story of how she met Barney.

That night before Marshall arrived, Ted, Tracy, Barney, Robin, and Lily were sitting around the table drinking, just having a good time.

"It just feels so weird. The gang's all here, except for one of us." Says Barney, as if he were depressed. "That bottle of Glen McKenna 30 year."

The others groaned in agreement.

"Also, where the hell is Marshall?!" this then led Lily onto a rant about how angry she was that Marshall took the judgeship without telling her. Tracy and Robin tried to comfort Lily, but Barney made it pretty clear that he was siding with Marshall. When Ted convinced Barney to come with him to the bar, Tracy looked back for one second, and in the next second, she turned around to see Darren talking to Robin and Lily. When Darren saw Tracy, he almost panicked, but he then recovered.

"Tracy? What are you doing here? Didn't you see the ad?"

"What ad?" asked Robin.

Lily then connected the pieces of the puzzle, this was the asshole that was trying to kick Tracy out of her band.

When Ted and Barney returned, they helped Lily yell at Darren in front of everyone, and eventually Tracy told all of them to stop, much to their surprises. She then told off Darren herself, and kicked him out of the band.

The five of them then continued to celebrate, but they soon stopped celebrating, and Lily started to seriously worry if Marshall was okay. Tracy then offered to take a car and go out to look for him, but Lily was convinced that it was hopeless. Ted, Barney, and Robin tried to convince Lily that everything was going to be fine, but Tracy just had a feeling that she should look for Marshall.

Much to her surprise, she found him! She decided to make him think that she was some crazy psychic by guessing recent events about him and Lily moving to Rome. She eventually told him she was just joking and that she met Lily a few days ago. Tracy and Marshall then talked and got to know each other on the way back. Tracy convinced Marshall that everything with Lily was going to be fine, but he wasn't so convinced.

The rest of the weekend was pretty tame. Marshall slapped Barney, which Tracy needed an explanation for, Barney and Robin both decided to pack it in early, Lily and Marshall decided to go back to their room and hash it out. Too little too late did Tracy realize that she no longer had a room. Ted offered for her to stay with him and Barney for the night, and she was worried she'd be a burden, but Ted assured her it would be fine.

That next morning, Tracy was surprised to hear that Lily had left the Inn last night and returned, no longer wanting to move to Rome. The morning was a little hectic as Barney, Marshall, Ted, Ranjit, and Billy Zabka left to go "teach someone some manners" while Robin, Lily, and Tracy talked with Robin's mom, who had just shown up that morning, after Tracy had been made fun of for bashing on "The Wedding Bride".

By the end of the day, Barney and Robin were married. Ted told Tracy about how he was going to move to Chicago, and she was shocked, but touched that he decided to stay. They enjoyed the next few days with Marshall and Lily before they had to finally move to Rome.

Ted and Tracy had finally made it. They were together, and they were in love.