February 09 Valentine's Day

My romantic sneaky guy... I arrived to work on Friday, February 13th to find a Valentine explosion in my office. Ben had conspired with my coworkers to get into my office Thursday evening so that everything would be decorated and waiting. My darling Valentine wrote me a poem. I think he sits down to write and says to himself "She'll cry here and here and here. That's a good poem!" Of course I cried! It was beautiful. (Maybe if enough of you ask him, he might let me share a few lines.)
There were a dozen long stemmed roses, the "un-frog-gettable" balloon and the cutest, yummiest frog truffles. Again I say, I'm a lucky woman. And it wasn't even Valentine's Day yet!

The next evening, we got all dressed up and headed to downtown Portland. There are some really great restaurants in our area. We just keep ending up downtown! This time, we had reservations to El Gaucho. It was so romantic and a fantastic dinner. I tried escargot because Ben was sure I would love them if I had them prepared correctly. Even prepared correctly, I highly doubt that is a taste I will ever acquire! Everything else was exquisite. It was another Fairytale Valentine!