The 365 Day Challenge--Day 44--Happy Valentines Day!

Since I have not posted in a few days, today will be a jumbo post! I uploaded these pictures in reverse order accidentally and so I will start with tonight, and end with this morning!

Our Valentine's Day tradition for several years now has been to go to In-n-Out Burger for Valentines dinner. It really beats calling months in advance for a restaurant reservation only to be packed in a restaurant with tons of other couples. In years past In-n-Out has been a ghosttown on V day but not tonight! Here we are after our burgers, animal style:


We had lunch down at the Port of Los Angeles. I love boats and ships and really love being at the port and seeing all the cranes and cartons loading and unloading. Weird, I know, but I really love it! This huge container ship floated by while we were eating lunch:



The Point Vicente Lighthouse is only open one Saturday a month, and today happened to be that day. We've been trying to get to it for a while now. I love lighthouses! I'd like to be able to visit all the lighthouses on the California coast one day. It can be done, except for that elusive Point Conception Lighthouse that I want so badly to see!

This is me up inside the lighthouse beside the massive fresnel lens:

The lens:

That's Catalina Island in the distance--it looks so close from here!

Chris started the day off with Baci--my favorite Italian chocolates that we discovered on our honeymoon. Notice that Riley would really like one too (sorry I can't get the picture to rotate).