Tradition

Brian and I have a tradition, Baltimore to celebrate Valentine's day. Every year we find a new way to celebrate love day either the weekend before or the weekend after.

Since we started dating shortly after Valentine's day it was a way of celebrating our anniversary as well.

2012 (Our first official Valentine's day): Brian and I went to Sabantino's in Little Italy for dinner, then out on the town - from Fell's point to Power Plant. My personal favorite - the Piano Bar!



My present. Still love this ring as much as I did that day.



Perfection



We walked on the harbor and around his old college campus the next morning. The next night we met with Jess and Matt and went to an interactive murder mystery play. It was a great weekend.

On the actual day of 2/14 I sent Brian an edible arrangement and received one perfect long stem rose. It was a good year.

2013: Friday was spent having dinner and drinks and then to a hotel. Saturday we made a stop at Jess and Matt's again and got to see this little one... (who's not quite so little anymore)

And while the boys were away picking up Bateman's, Ava crawled!!

Jess and I made cupcakes and attempted shrimp quesadilla's which almost caused an evacuation due to too much jalapeno and cumin in a hot pan.

2/14 was spent with flowers sent to my work, wine, chocolate covered strawberries and steak and lobster for dinner.

2014: This year, yet again, we recruited Jess and Matt to tackle Bmore with us! We kicked it off with Korean BBQ which was a great first experience for us and also extremely tasty. Next we were off to the Towson Basketball game (I gave Brian tickets for Christmas), then to Bateman's for a crab pretzel, and back to the hotel to get freshened up.

Our dinner was one for the books. Not only was our server phenomenal, the food was TO.DIE.FOR. Garlic fries started the meal off but didn't last long with Jess attacking them... clearly they were her favorite part. ;) Brian and I tried a sampler of 7 home brewed beers. We both ordered a seasonal - him: the light and the dark for myself.

Brian ordered a rib eye that didn't stand a chance. 18 oz gone in less than 2 minutes (a little exaggeration there). I ordered the largest seafood cobb salad, but was not at all disappointed. And Brian did his husbandly duties clearing what I couldn't finish.

We started off a night of heavy drinking with Max's tap house, then the Greene Turtle and finally Rodo's. Brian and I were the last couple standing and found ourselves at Blue Moon cafe at 425 in the morning.

I will follow up with how 2/14 this year ends but so far... steak, lobster and wine are on the agenda!