Love Day

Valentines this year was just as lovely as it has been in the past.  I know a bunch of people think it's dumb that we are told we have to celebrate our love on a certain day, but I think it's a fun opportunity to do something out of the ordinary.  This year we decided to forgo the presents and plan a date night instead.  Chase planned a lovely cheap date for us which was awesome!  He was able to get free tickets to the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, which was really fun to go to because it was something different.  I unfortunately was not ready when Chase got home from work and I was having a hard time finding a dress to wear, which made us leave too late to go to dinner, so we stopped at Arbys'.  Chase had made a joke at work earlier asking the boys if Wendys' was fancy enough for our date, of course they all said no, so it was funny that we did end up eating fast food.  I was completely ok with it though and not disappointed one bit :)  The Orchestra was down town which is always an adventure since were not comfortable with the city.  Getting there turned out to be easy and we weren't scared since we were in the middle of the college area and there were plenty of people walking around with ease.  Going home was a different story though.  It was nice and dark, and the the street signs down there are pretty much nonexistent.  Needless to say we missed the onramp for the freeway because it was not marked at all and hard to spot.  Which then as soon as we missed the onramp we ended up in some creepy poorly lit area, not even a mile past the on ramp.  It's amazing how easy it is to feel unsafe by making one wrong turn (or not turning).  While we were trying to get back to the road (we had to make a loop because of the one way streets) we ended up hitting a car swallowing pot hole.  We hit so hard because neither of us saw it since the road wasn't lit, that we were afraid we broke Chase's.  Luckily all seemed just fine :) Even though we had our exciting make my heart race out of fear part to the night we still had a very fun night!  I'm glad that Chase had the great idea to do something outside of the norm.  It really was a fun night.  We haven't gone on my date night yet, because I'm waiting for the temperature to be warm enough to be outside at night.  We might be waiting a long time though ;)

Yeah, looking down at the camera makes for very attractive pictures. 

We did have a fun Valentines night though!  We made our favorite soup (asparagus soup) that we only get once in a blue moon and made fried ice cream.  It was definitely a tasty night :)

Like I said this Valentines was just as lovely as the rest! :)