Monday, February 14, 2011

Valentine Adventure

My Valentine
Several years ago Dan and I stopped doing the typical "eat dinner out on Valentine's Day" thing.  I hate crowds and the restaurants always find ways to charge more for a price fixed menu.  And, honestly we are not one of those couples that loves getting all dressed up for a "night on the town".  So a few years ago we began a new more adventurous and fun tradition:  a medley of stops at our most favorite local places.  This year we invited our neighbors and friends to come along and our stops included:
Breakfast pastries at J.J. Sweet
Our neighbors and friends Craig and Janee came too!
A visit to our favorite cheese monger in Beverly Hills

Have you every been to a REAL cheese store?  It's  amazingly fun!
A lunch stop at The Grove in downtown LA - The boys had Greek gyros.

The girls had carnitas tacos.
Dan bought our dog Jersey some treats from the doggie bakery.

On our way back to Chino we dropped by the hundred-year-old olive grove and the Graber Olive House to pick up a few cans of our favorite olives.
When we got back to our house we began to feast on our Valentine booty.

The cheese was such a tasty and fun treat!

3 comments:

Ashley said...

That looks like so much fun! I need to come visit you sometime! =)

Diane said...

That does look fun!

Christina said...

What a perfect way to spend the day! Great idea, YUM!

Too bad we couldn't do that here. I think if you said the words "cheese" and "monger" in the same sentence around here, they would think you're talking about rodents. ;)

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