Valentine's Day this year was pretty great. I had warned George before that they are usually pretty awful, so I didn't want that to happen again. But on the upside, the bar wasn't set very high.
Last weekend, he surprised me with what he called the 1st part of my present (which I didn't have to tell him I wanted, yay!): season 6 of The Simpsons and a Nightmare tee w/ Jack and Sally. I gave him a flat iron so he'd stop stealing mine, a johnny cash tee, pj pants, and a box of Whoppers (the only candy he says he likes).
On Valentine's Day, we went to JapanTown with Cookie and Amanda. Originally it was just supposed to be us, but they had no plans and it's always more fun to take trips with friends. At first, I wasn't too happy with the idea of people coming with us on our first Valentine's Day together, but then I remembered that I love those guys and wondered we hadn't thought of inviting them before. We had all been at C-Dub's Friday night playing FHL. And when I say "we", I mean "them", because I just watched as I suck at FHL. Needless to say, we did not get out of town as early as we planned.
George drove us to Pleasanton where we caught the BART, and almost missed our train because the schedule I had was a little misleading. Thanks to a very nice conductor, we got on with a few minutes to spare. George had never been on the BART before, and wondered why we were going slower than the cars on the highway. It wasn't until the ride home that we heard the rain had been forcing them to reduce the speed.
Once we got to San Francisco, somehow we ended up on the wrong side of the street. So, all the directions I had were backwards. After stopping at BK so Cookie could get his first burger of the day, we set off in search of the shopping center. A few blocks later, I realized we were moving away from the Miyako building. From here on out, I will not stop at a gas station for directions if there is a Holiday Inn anywhere in sight. We asked several people and got more lost because of it, but the bellhop actually got us a map and drew out a route that wouldn't take us through "the hobo part of town."
The downside was the BART only took us to the Civic Center, and the mall was about 2 mi away. I had given everyone advance warning about the long walk, and everyone said they were fine with it. We ran into some kids who George recognized from some of his favorite anime's, and it turned out there was a convention in town. We never did find out where, but some of the costumes were pretty awesome.
We split up for lunch: George and I went to Izumiya's for sushi while Cookie and Amanda headed a few blocks back for McDonald's (Cookie's 2nd burger of the day). By that time, we had spent about 4 hours there and seen just about everything we could. We all agreed being in San Fran past dark was no bueno. After all, Amanda was almost killed by a cab and had a few encounters with bums already. :-)Our last stop was a bookstore on Van Ness that has some of the biggest books I've ever seen. Ridiculously big, almost in a cartoon way, and they were too big to ever actually be read. Definitely meant for decorating purposes, which defeats the whole purpose for me.
On our way home, we decided to hang out a little longer and relax. I made burgers (Cookie's 3rd and 3 1/2 burgers of the day) and we watched Almost Heroes, which none of us had seen yet. I had put Snickerdoodles in the oven, and they were a tad overdone when we discovered the potholder had been ruined by George's cats and I couldn't get them out fast enough. Amanda said they were still good.The rest of my present is still to come, and I can't wait to see what my guy has in store for me.
Click the pics below to see our trip
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