A scary Valentine's Day

It takes a lot to scare me anymore.  But lets say I was very anxious to see Valentine's Day coming this year.

 That's because we were throwing a Valentine's Dance for the Spanish branch which meant decorating, cooking treats, coming up with music, clean up etc.

We had been asked by a family to take them to the airport after the dance because their daughter was going to the Provo MTC.  We said yes of course, and a few days later they mentioned that we had to leave at 1:30 am to get there.  We put on a brave face and said that was fine.  Then the day before, they told us it wasn't to the Fresno airport which is the closest one.  It was out of Sacramento which is over two hours away. This was the same night as the dance: Valentines.

We decided to make the best out of it and booked a hotel so we wouldn't have to drive all the way back that night. Turns out the people were real nice about checking us into the hotel at 5:00 am.!

 After four hours of sleep we took off to explore Sacramento. Neither of us had ever been there.  We went through the State Capital building of course.  Then we went to Sacramento Old Town which is much bigger that San Diego Old Town and isn't Spanish but rather sprung up from the Gold Rush.  It was a very interesting place and we settled on eating at Fat's City. Fat is the name of the family who first settled there by the railroad, not a description. The food was excellent and the place was historic and beautiful in carved wood and Tiffany stained glass.

On the way home we went by the Modesto Flea Market which we have heard so much about, just so we would know what people were talking about and sure enough, it is big.

So what looked like an impossible, daunting, and even scary Valentine's day turned out to be quite fun and even relaxing in the end. Who would have guessed.