My View on Valentine's Day

Well Brian thinks I need to write a blog on Valentine's Day because I can explain it better, so here it goes. Yesterday we woke up to snow blowing all over and a fresh coat of about 2 1/2 inches of powder. After braving the cold we got the studio all warmed up and I taught Zumba and Brian worked on the studio bills. When we got home I retired to my "bed" as I usually do with a massive backache. If you haven't read Brian's blog yet, I have been sleeping on the couch for the past couple weeks because the couch is more supportive then my bed. Brian had been wanting breakfast burritos for a couple days so he decided to make me "breakfast in bed" since I had never had breakfast burritos it was an interesting breakfast, but Brian proved he can cook and the burritos were pretty good.
I usually teach Thursday nights but all my students cancelled due to Valentine's Day plans so I decided to priceline a hotel and go to the Twin Cities with Brian to a Air Force meeting thing. The meeting was good, his recruiter answered some questions for us after the meeting since Brian is the only recruit that is married. He also did his 30 day check in, I can't believe he will be gone so soon! After the meeting we went to our hotel, a small yet 4 star place, that I got a deal on at $50 for the night :)
For dinner Brian said I could pick whatever I wanted, and since he usually isn't open to new things I totally jumped at the chance to get some culture. While in Phoenix I used to eat at all kinds of places, and I really liked Greek food, and since we have moved away from the city I've missed the culture and things to do. In any case I decided we should try a resturant called Mediteranian Cruise Cafe, it had a variety of food from Greek to Egyptian so I figured Brian would find something on the menu that wouldn't freak him out too much and I could have some of the more "exotic" food that I really loved. The place exceeded any expectations I had of it, the food was amazing, we had a Valentine's Day special, which was a TON of food, but a good variety so Brian and I could try a bunch of different things. Appetizers included hummus, gyros, pita bread, and flaming cheese, which we had without flame because the flame came from alchohol and alot of other dishes were flaming as well, and while you can cook the alchohol out of a dish sometimes when you burn it off it can creep under the dish and I didn't want to have that happen, especially with more then one dish, so we did everything without alchohol. Afterappetizers Brian had no problem trying everything they put in front of us, and everything was amazing, we had lamb, chicken, and shrimp and the most AMAZING rice. He even liked the shrimp and he hates shrimp!
As with most Greek places there was belly dancing which of course I absolutley loved, the dancer was fantastic. It was nice to see a dancer above a size 3, one who was talented and didn't just get the job because she looks cute in the costume. Don't get me wrong, she was absolutley beautiful, and looked amazing, but beyond that she was an awesome performer and she was extremly talented. Later we found out she studied in Egypt for a period of time, no wonder she was good! After a few songs she pulled up a couple people, one at a time and taught them a few moves, and after a while she tried to get me to go up for a lesson, Brian was all for it so I went up there. When I stood up she noticed I was pregnant and told me to be careful and so I told her I had been belly dancing and that I taught it, she was excited about that so instead of a lesson the two of us just danced together, it was so much fun as I haven't really been able to belly dance in a LONG time. At the end of the song we laughed about how I had stumbled and her nose was running from getting a cold and exchanged a few of the normal dancer conversation, she helped me off the platform, and I sat down to finish our dinner. After dinner I gave the waitress a tip for the dancer, and she came over and we talked for a little while, I found out her real name is Leslie, she gave me her card and said I should join the local guild and start coming to the performances and getting back into it since I was really good. That made me feel pretty happy, that as a pregnant woman I still looked good when I belly danced. We said goodbye, and took our 3 BOXES of leftover food and headed back to the hotel.
So it was an amazing day, I've been single every Valentine's Day so this was the first time I've ever done anything special, furthermore Brian is leaving soon and we won't be able to be together for who knows how long. This morning he told me he did such a good job for Valentine's Day that I can't give him anymore grief about him text messaging his proposal to me! :)