Valentine's Day

Husby is not really a valentine's day kind of guy. He hates buying gifts in the first place and this feeling is multiplied ten fold when forced by some "hallmark" holiday. Although I totally understand his sentiment, I still want a valentine's day celebration. I am an American woman who still thinks (or maybe has been programed to believe) that valentine's day is special. So this year I thought I would be proactive and get things started between the husby and I. I proposed that we both create a date, something we want to do or have an interest in. I wanted to have an opportunity to do something different with husby. The rules: plan an activity and a meal and it cannot be on valentine's day.

My date:

Incahoots at 6:30 where we could learn a line dance or two and then dinner at a little mom-and-pop hibachi grill.

We got to Incahoots and the lesson had already started. We were learning the two step (which I was hoping would happen). So we jumped on the dance floor and learned how to two step. It was slightly confusing at first, but we definitely got the hand of it. Husby seemed to enjoy and was definitely taking is seriously, which I appreciated. I have been wanting to go and dance for quite a while now, but I was worried husby wouldn't really like it. I was wrong!

After the two step, we learned a line dance, which was challenging. Husby was having a hard time with it and realized that he just needed more time. It was so fun watching him do the dance and just being together doing something different then the usual.

We left Incahoots and headed to a hibachi grill that my friend C has been raving about. It is just like Benihana, but a little cheaper and not so crowded. We split a meal there and enjoyed it.

We sat across from a couple we didn't know. As we looked over our menus we hear the dude ask for three meals and three sushi rolls. Now granted I have never been to this restaurant, but I felt like that was going to be a extensive amount of food. So the rolls came and he was eating and all was good, but then the food starts being prepared. His plate was piled so high with food and he looked so disgusted and confused about why there was so much. I then realized that he was high as a kite and those meals probably looked very appealing at the beginning of the night. That was so a good time watching his expressions as the food just kept on a'coming.

Greatest part of the night: when husby started looking up places we could take line dancing classes together so that we could really learn the dances. The classes don't start until late spring, but I am really looking forward to it.

Husby's date was a week later and it was a day-date. We headed down to Coronado Island. Coronado is a little out of our range for eating; we don't like to drive all that far. So we arrived a Miguel's Cocina and enjoyed a quick lunch. I got the enchilada suizas and the mango mojito, which was awesome. 

After lunch we headed to the Reuben H. Fleet center to watch an imax movie about rescued baby elephants and orangutans. My husby knows me so well. Of course being the nerdy, animal-loving person that I am, I loved the movie and was crying half the time. 

All and all, valentines was fantastic. My only regret was not taking any pictures, but that is something I am working on.