oh my.... ♥ Valentine! ♥

I love him. bottom line, no bones about it, love him.

ushy, gushy, kissy, huggy, smoochy love him. 

he's my bessstesst frand. i like that we're weird, together.

Sometimes i wanna strangle him. But then he goes and totally redeems himself :) We've only spent the last few valentine's days together. It just hadn't worked out for us to ever be together.  Our usual now....a movie, dinner, and little gifts. nope. not this year!! papaw did good!

We headed out on saturday the 13th, which i never questioned until the day of when i realized one of my toothbrushes was missing...thinking we'd beat the crowd. so much for that.  we had dinner at Cheddar's which was YUM OH! I could eat a half ton of their baked spasagna....i love it! I think my valentine was probably tired of me taking all my random pictures haha. sorry. it's an addiction.

 The half hour wait was worth it, unlike last year's hour and a half wait for the old spaghetti factory.
After dinner we got in the card and headed ???? i had no idea where but we were headed for downtown. at one point i'm pretty sure the love of my life suggested he was taking me to dump my body in the river?!  yeah, no, he seriously said that. Happy Valentine's Day to you too!
no worries. he was joking....that's just our sense of humor.  sick huh? :)

Our ending destination was non other than the 21C Museum Hotel, for a romantical getaway. It was sooo cool.  It's this place downtown that is connected to the restaurant Proof on Main. the entire place is crazy. I think the idea most people get is that the restaurant and all its really weird, eclectic and extremely contemporary artwork is proof of life?? any takers on that theory? anyway the art is crazy and i love it. Check out their limo, wild huh? and the picture on the left i took in the elevator. They also have the coolest restrooms ever. If you're ever there walk past the mirror in front of the men's restroom and wave or laugh, or point and laugh. It's a two way mirror, they can see out from the inside when they are standing at the urinals but you can't see in when you walk past the mirror. Hilarious, especially if unsuspecting male potty user is caught off guard by a passerby'er pointing and laughing at them! hahaha. The ladies room is equally strange.

The hotel was an old factory i believe that was converted into a hotel so there's lots of exposed brick, metal beams, concrete floors, and the rooms have really high ceilings. The place is not decorated like your average hotel room. Sooo cool! Have i said that?

It really was a great suprise. It was kinda nice to getaway and do something different even if our trip was 10 minutes away.  Our room included a turn down service. It even had an ipod already hooked up with random music playing....i thought that was cool. When i say random think....Bob Dylan to Black Eyed Peas to Bach to Rascal Flatts to Christmas tunes! haha. Awesome. I think my valentine was more concerned with the chocolate covered strawberries than the music! I swear he loves chocolate more than he does me. This place is just different. Is that a rubber duckie in the shower? yup.

We opened our fancy schmancy chilled champagne, poured some bubbly, and headed downstairs to walk around and look at the artwork. A lot of my favorite pieces that were there the last time weren't there anymore. I mean no talking heads this time, no couple sleeping together on the floor, no sand tornado. But still, some cool pieces nonetheless. There was a private party going on so we couldn't walk around the entire place so we decided to head back to the room after awhile.

 On the way to the elevators...after playing with the famous red penguin... my valentine stopped me all of a sudden "look, she's getting proposed to" Oh it was so sweet. We watched a guy get down on one knee and in a back hallway, by some elevators, away from the large and noisy party, he asked his adorable girlfriend to be his wife. She was more than suprised i think, and excited! I mean who would expect to be proposed to on the way back from the ladies room? Nice set up, i bet she never saw it coming.  It was a nice addition to our valentine's walk, couldn't have planned that if we tried! It brought back a lovely memory of our own engagement....when i was commanded to marry my dear husband. (not asked.) haha! Just kidding love. 

This Valentine's suprise was wonderful and so creative. Very impressed sir :) i'd say mine was a little lack luster in comparison. i wonder what we'll do next year?

How did you guys spend your Valentine's Day???

xoxo-e