valentine's day

heart-shaped pancake with goat cheese for valentine's day

so kyle and i haven't been hiking since 2/11 because that next week i worked too much, the week after that it was only about 25 degrees out, and now it has been raining! we are working on being outfitted for the rain, but not 100% there yet. we are planning our next hike for wednesday, march 9th. i did some math, and if we are planning on getting all of these hikes done we should already have in 10 hikes. but once it gets nicer out we figure we will be hiking at least 2 times a week, so we should be fine! also, ultimate frisbee practice starts tomorrow morning with our team rowboat! and our first tournament is schedule the first weekend in april (i think!).

since there are no hikes to post about, i figured i would share what kyle and i did for valentine's day! due to the fact that we both work in the service industry, of course we were working the night of valentine's day on that monday. we both also worked the previous sunday night, and i had to work the saturday night before hand. so we planned to celebrate on thursday, february 17th!

kyle's name written in pancake!

we did have some fun for 14th though. we were originally planning on going hiking, but the weather just really was not great. so instead we woke up and kyle had a couple of nice gifts waiting for me! then we went out to breakfast at slappy cakes; a breakfast place where lots of tables have a griddle in the middle of them and you get to make your own pancakes! we started with some breakfast beverages-kyle had a bloody mary with bacon and i had a pomegranate mimosa! kyle and i chose to have peanut butter batter and the vegan pancake batter (i wanted to try it to see if it would be any good!) and our mix-ins were bananas, chocolate chips, sausage, and goat cheese. there were 4 other batters to choose from and about 15 other mix-ins. my favorite combo was the peanut butter batter with bananas in it! but the combo of vegan batter, sausage, and goat cheese was also delicious! then after breakfast we of course went rock climbing at one of our favorite places-circuit!

drinks at slappy cakes!

so then on thursday night we got dressed up all cute (i wore a dressy!) and went to get wine and dessert! we decided to check out pix which is known for there wonderful desserts and extensive wine menu! they also have certain beers that pair well with desserts and liqueurs. we ordered 2 desserts to share and had a bottle of wine. kyle was sweet enough to let me choose the wine, and of course i chose my favorite kind-moscato d'asti! it is a dessert wine so we figured the sweetness would pair well with the richness of the desserts!

shazam in the background and amelie up front! yum!

the desserts we had were called "shazam!" (description from pix's website: rich and creamy caramel mousse, salted almonds, dense chocolate almond cake, and more caramel) and "amelie" (orange vanilla crème brûlée sits atop a glazed chocolate mousse with caramelized hazelnuts, praline crisp, and Cointreau génoise). the dessert options available are displayed in a case in the front of the restaurant. so there are many other i would like to try sometime! our wine was from bigaro, a blush, italian wine, and i loved it! we then went home and watched a couple of episodes of the simpsons before calling it a night.


i hope everyone's valentine's day was great! and yes i'm a sucker for this hallmark holiday.