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Early Valentine's Day

We celebrated Valentine's Day a little early this year. Hubby's schedule has been a little crazy with the switching of days to nights to days to nights....that I just wanted to make sure we spent some quality time together, so I suggested we have some dinner over the weekend instead of Monday when we would have to rush home from work and try and go out where we would likely run into a huge crowd.

As I just returned from a business trip overseas this past week, it seemed only fitting to spend Saturday night with hubby. Hubb and I usually make a huge deal out of our celebrations but this year we decided not to make a big deal out of Valentine's. Instead we spent the day at Disneyland trading, had a nice lunch, took a good nap, then we traded Vinylmations (he had bought some for me and I had bought some for him) and finally, had a really great meal at our favorite restaurant, Cafe Was.

The evening was simple yet perfect. Everyone has different opinions on Valentine's Day (mainly its too commercial) but if you take it for what it was meant to be, aka celebrating your affection for another person, I think, commercialism aside, it's a fun holiday because you are remembering the person who means the most in our life. This year, there were no cards nor chocolates, just a few favorite things...our vinyls, which we have been having fun collecting together and good food. Instead of chocolate, we had champagne cocktails and beinegets w/ cinnamon and chocolate sauce. Overall a really nice night!

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