Valentines Day

In my opinion: Valentines Day is a stupid holiday.

I didn't like it when I was single, and I don't like it now that I'm married. Obligatory romance just seems silly to me. Plus, the poor guys can't win either way. If they do something sweet and romantic for their "significant other" than some of the sweetness is lost because they "had" to do something since it was Valentines Day. But if they do nothing, then they are big old jerks.
I feel like it's an unfair holiday for men. One of those holidays that sets them up to fail. Also, if you try and go out to dinner you pay WAY more than you normally would because the restaurants jack up their prices, and you have to deal with hefty crowds.
In conclusion, I don't like Valentines Day.
So when Luke asked me what I wanted to do for Valentines Day, and I told him "nothing", and he wouldn't take "nothing" for an answer, we compromised.

We started out at Dilusso downtown

Luke got us coffee, and then we set off on a walk downtown. It has been a long time since I walked downtown, I work in the Old Mill District, so I have driven through downtown a ton, but there are a lot of new little shops and restaurants that you miss when you're driving, so it was nice to get to see all of it.

Then we walked down to Drake Park. I took this picture of Luke in the little courtyard before you get the park, then I looked at the picture and announced to him that he looked homeless..... only to discover that there was an actual homeless man sitting behind me... awkward... I promptly placed my foot in my mouth and we set off.

This was the bench that we sat at, and decided to take pictures on... oh man, what a joke.

The following pictures, are just a few of our attempts, turns out... Dogs don't cooperate for pictures, and setting a self-timer in the dark without anything to set the camera on doesn't work.

Done with our Valentines Day walk.. making a pit stop at Wild Oats for some groceries.

This clock says 6:57 (I realize it's blurry) it was taken on our way out of downtown. But I wanted to prove to the masses that we could stay out after 7:00...
it was almost EIGHT OCLOCK by the time we got home!