A Weekend of Love

I know the weekend was a few days ago, but Branden and I had a wonderful weekend. It started on Friday when I got home. Branden had this beautiful display waiting for me as a surprise. I absolutely loved it!

For dinner we decided to go to a local German restaurant. We went there for lunch a few weeks ago and knew we wanted to go back. We loved EVERYTHING about the place. They even had live music on Friday so we were able to stay after dinner and enjoy some Irish music.

On Saturday, Branden and I decided to avoid the crowds and stay in for Valentine's day. We enjoyed each other's company and made a delicious dinner of steak and oysters! Our oysters had a delicious butter, basil, parsley, garlic, and lime sauce. I was spoiled because Branden did all the cooking (he loves grilling). However, I did surprise him by baking his favorite peanut butter cookies. I still have some perfecting to do as they were crunchy the next day. I love it when the cookies stay soft!

On Sunday my parents came to visit and we decided to check out the USS Hornet Museum. I've been wanting to go there for awhile but just never got around to it. I thought it was super cool and want to go back! We spent over 2 hours on the ship and I feel like I didn't even get to see half of it!

I highly recommend going to the museum if you are ever in the bay area. It has amazing views of the entire city and is home to some very significant history.

 

After the tour of the ship we went to dinner at a local seafood place and the dinner there was delicious as well! Branden and I decided we definitely have to go back there sometime, especially because it looks over the bay and on a clear night you can see the city.

It was so nice having my parents come visit on top of celebrating Valentine's Day with Branden. Hopefully they'll come back and visit again soon :-). I hope everyone else had a great weekend and if you had the day off (unlike me), you took advantage of that!