St. Valentine's Day

So yesterday was valentine's day...one of those days that Hallmark has made important to all female Americans, and possible those of the entire developed world. So us of the male gender feel that we have to acquiesce, and try our best to make the best of that day. This year, since I was fortunate enough to be home with the boy, I decided to surprise his mother by showing up at her work. Unfortunately, right before she left for work in the morning, she asked, "why don't you guys come down and have lunch with me today?" Nonetheless, I said we were planning on surprising you by doing that, and now I just don't know if we can. But we did anyway...

We walked from home up and down to the financial district, seeing the sights along the way. We walked through the area of Market Street I sometimes call the zoo, because there are so many different types of animals there, you never know what you might see. Besides, I'm not a big fan of zoos, mainly because of the funny feeling I get seeing "wild" animals caged up for my pleasure. I know that some of them are better off, and they are such beautiful creatures, but I also feel bad. I guess I'll post more on this when I actually take the boy to a zoo. On our trip from City Hall down to Montgomery Street, we got to see all types of losers, junkies, freaks, schizophrenics and the like. All the time warning Cobalt that if he grows up to hang out down here...

Anyway, we brought mom some flowers and a gift certificate to get her nails done and more. Since it was so nice outside, we all decided to get some deli sandwiches and sit out down by the ferry building.
Afterwards, we came home to make dinner. Since we walked both there and back, we decided that our time was better spent making a delightful desert, and for dinner we'd just make what we were going to make the day before. We attempted to make an upside down cake, since we had some kiwis and apples in the fridge. Now remember, not only have I never made an upside down cake before, but I don't think I've even ever had one either. Seeing as how we didn't have any eggs in the house, and we were beat from all the walking, we decided to combine recipes...one for the fruit courtesy of Alice Waters, and one for the cake, from Millenium. Well, I think it looked a little better than it tasted, as it seemed a bit underdone in the middle, but all in all, it turned out a success.

Even Cobalt loved it...

afterall, he was conceived on this day two years ago.