Valentines Day

Since Michal had to teach Institute on Valentines Day, we decided that we would celebrate the Friday before.  Michal planned out an evening for the two of us which included dinner and a movie... but it didn't go as smoothy as he wanted it to.

We got lost trying to find TGIFridays (which - by the way - is nothing like it is in America!  Here it is overpriced and doesn't taste the same... in other words, I would NOT recommend this place to anyone here).

After we finished our (not-so-good) meal, we were still hungry and we decided that it was a must for us to buy the largest popcorn possible at the movie theater to satisfy our tummies.  This was not a wise idea... (details to follow).

Michal makes a great jedi warrior.

The movie was great, we went and watched "The Vow".  In Polish the title is: "I ze cie nie opuszcze" which translated means, "I will never leave you."  Since it is a movie about a woman who looses her memory and her husband fights to win her love all over again since she has forgotten who her husband is.

At the end of the movie I asked Michal, "What would you do if I lost my memory?"  And his reply was quite a shocker: "I'd watch all the 'King of the Hill Episodes' with you to help you remember how cool this show is and how funny it is."  Here I was setting him up to give me a cheesy, romantic response - and instead I get a white trash one.  I told him that with a response like that get a 'do-over' date.

Regardless, when the movie got over it was around 12:30 and Michal & I discovered that public transportation doesn't really run that frequently at this time of the night.  We were the only ones one the Tram & the Metro on the way home.

Michal used his charm and talked a tram driver, who was taking the tram to the garage, into dropping us off at a nearby Metro station.  From there it was about a 40 minute metro ride home.  And we walked into our apartment around 1:45.

Well, remember all that popcorn that we ate?  It was so salty that when we got home all we could even think about was drinking lots and lots and lots of water... which kept us up even later and later.  We weren't tired, we were just so thirsty.  By the time we ended up falling asleep it was well into the early hours of the morning.  I haven't stayed up that late since I was in College, and trying to convince Michal to stay up to even ring in the new year is a trial for me.  (Next time I'll just feed him lots of Salty Popcorn and that should do the trick!)

Overall, it was a fun adventure and one that took us through a lot of unexpected turns.  We tried to make the most out of a date that did not go as planned. I had fun and I'm glad that I have a great memory of our very uncommon, unusual Valentines day date.