valentine’s weekend!

well, we had a pretty great valentine's weekend.

started off on friday, getting some flowers from my lovely sister, lauren.  for some reason they didn't put the card in the box, so i had no idea who they were from, but it was a pretty easy guess.

so on saturday, we packed the car and headed out for asheville, NC.  it's a really cute town in western north carolina in the smokey mountains.  we'd been there before with laura's parents (and i suppose drove through on our way down from AK), but this time we decided to bring bruno along for the trip.  he loved the car ride down, but didn't care much for the motel (the downtown inn, which was cheap and in a great location).  i suppose there were too many strange smells and noises for his liking.  he did pretty good walking around downtown, though.  asheville's a really dog-friendly town, and we were able to take him into a few shops even.  we stopped in the three dog bakery, which specializes in baked goods for dogs.  he had a sample of their carrot cake, and we ended up getting him his own slice of carrot cake, a brownie, and chocolate doughnut (all good for dogs, of course).  we also got a new leash, which i'll have to devote a separate post to, it's that cool...

we ended up locking the dog in his kennel and taking off for dinner at zambra, a great tapas restaurant.  we had some butternut & shrimp croquettes, pomegranate braised pork spring rolls, a homemade pork sausage chimichanga, and some fresh bread with garlic olive oil.  we had to skip out on dessert, although we found a chocolate place where we grabbed some caramels, and toffees.  so i guess that was our valentine's dinner, even though it was the night before.

the next morning, we ended up running out to the over easy cafe, which had a 20 minute wait but was completely worth it.  we had a breakfast sandwich and the whole wheat french toast, which was drizzled with a strawberry-banana glaze.  unbelievably good.

so that was the asheville trip.  we had a blast.  i brought the camera around, but didn't take a single picture.  guess you just had to be there...