Valentine’s Day. Roses, heart-shaped chocolate boxes, racy red lingerie, broken hearts, depression. Gotta love it. This year, Hallmark will not profit from us. No greeting cards, roses, or lovey-dovey gifts for us. Just lots of quality time together. Aw!
So, how does one celebrate El Dia del Amor in Mexico? Let me count the ways. The options are endless, but we’ll bore you with how we chose to celebrate ours.
We started off the morning with a tasty breakfast of waffles with Nutella and bananas. Strangely enough, it took a move to Mexico for us to come to appreciate the wonders of Nutella, which originated in Italy. We then moved on to a beach restaurant where we took seats in the sun and sand, enjoyed chips and salsa and 2 for 1 Coronas, and immersed ourselves in our books. $6 for 6 Coronas and chips. Gotta love happy hour!
When the cloud cover started to make us shiver, we returned home, where John expertly grilled up some arrachera (marinated skirt steak). This combined with grilled onions, fresh tortillas, our array of salsas, some mood lighting and the sounds of Shakira (Hey, it’s the most romantic music we have.) made for an excellent Valentine’s dinner. We’re now getting ready to head out in search of some good red wine. We had intended to have wine with dinner, but couldn’t find our new corkscrew. Yes, we are really roughing it here in Mexico. 
Come to think of it, this is pretty much a typical “vacation day” for us here. We’ll enthrall you with one of our typical “working days” in Mexico at some other time.
We realize that it’s been a while since we last posted, and we have actually done things worthy of posting (unlike today). But we’ll get around to posting that stuff on one of our working days.
sounds to me like the perfect valentines day – wish I was there too.