Valentine's Day

To celebrate Valentine's Day yesterday Don and I had planned on going out to eat. We usually plan on going out but end up deciding to make a nice dinner at home to avoid the hassle of trying to find parking and having to wait at a crowded restaurant to eat.  

So, yesterday, we decided to try and recreate this fabulous steak dish I got at this expensive French restaurant during my company holiday party last year. We had never attempted to cook steak before, so I stood around at the Sunflower Market for about 15 minutes staring at the steaks and asking random people questions about picking good meat.

After I learned all about picking steaks from several helpful women and then about shallots from the guy in the produce department, we went home and cooked the steaks.  We were both hopping anxiously around the stove trying to decide how long to sear them and how long to broil them.  Don made a blue cheese sauce which we put on the top of the steaks and I mixed some into the mashed red potatoes.  We also had some steamed broccoli and cauliflower and a loaf of artisan bread I bought at the market. I was amazed at what a good job we did!  It was one of the best dinners we've ever made!

After dinner, Don took me to the symphony to see the Boulder Philharmonic.  They played Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5, Bach's "Air", and Mozart's Concerto in E-Flat for for Two Pianos.  The baby really liked the french horns.  He would start kicking any time the french horns played. I think the timpani scared him; he would jump at the loud sections with lots of timpani banging. Maybe he'll want to play the french horn someday since he seems fond of it already. It was a great Valentine's date.  

We came home and had hot fudge cake and I gave Don his present.  Earlier, he had given me some really nice earrings and promised me a professional prenatal massage, but I had some technical difficulties showing him the video to explain his gift, so he had to wait 'til after the Symphony.

One of the Program Managers at work, Craig, flies a trike.  It is like a motorized hang glider with two seats that you can take off and land in because it has a motor, propeller, and wheels.  For Don's Valentine's present, I arranged for Craig to take him for a trike flight.  I found this video so you can see what flying in a trike is like. It looks a little scary, but really cool!  Craig flies his trike almost weekly and is thrilled that Don is going to go with him!

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/321551/clear_sky_ultralight_trike_flying_in_the_midwest/

Don said he might want to wait to go flying with Craig until after the baby was born.  I asked him why and he said he wanted to see his son atleast once before he died. Ha ha! 

It was a great Valentine's Day!  I'm so excited to go get my massage.  My back is killing me!