Work was good. Richard brought me a chocolate cake for Valentine's Day. Ate the whole thing. Russell told me he wants to buy me lunch. Bossman told me he loves me...but the best gift of all was the huge basket sitting in the passenger seat of my car. Hubs bought me a Valentine's Day basket stuffed to the brim with stuff. A big white bear, chocolate, perfume, candles, a desk clock, potpourri and a mirror. What a guy. After work we went to the Vietnamese restaurant by our house, La' Tre. We have old family friends that have a home in the Berkshires. For the past 20 years or so, my parents have gone to their house on July 4th weekend. Each visit to the Berks included a visit to Truc Orient Express in West Stockbridge. The most delicious Vietnamese food around. The restaurant by our house in Florida is owned by the brother of the woman who owns Truc Orient Express...so we went. The place has actually been in the same spot for the past 24 years. But Hubs and I never went there. It was very very good. We started with the cabbage soup. It was like a wonton soup but the meat centers of

the "wontons" were wrapped in pieces of cabbage. It was hot and very good. After the soup, we had a Happy Pancake. It was like a quesadilla only instead of beans and cheese these babies were filled with shrimp and pork and chicken and yummy vegetables. Hot and crunchy and so so so good. They even came on the plate with a hot sweet sauce, like a thin consistency of duck sauce and red pepper. Delish! After our soup and happy pancake, Hubs and I shared an order of 5 spice chicken. Spicy and sticky sweet. Everything was so good! Then, as if everything was ate was not enough, we ordered dessert. A fried banana sort of egg roll thing that was covered in a coconut sauce. ...and we had Jasmine tea. :) Everything was just divine. We enjoyed it and will definitely go back again.

There's no better way to spend Valentine's Day! In our family...food is love and tonight was no exception!

Hope you guys all had a great day too! Hugs and love.