Friday evening brought snow to the entire state of South Carolina! And not just flurries. This was the real deal. I’m not one to get excited about snow (I grew up in the Midwest), but this truly was something.
I left home around 4 p.m., and as I drove, it was snowing hard all the way down 26 to Charleston. At one point, traffic was in a 30 minute standstill. I snapped a picture of the other side of the highway.
When I reached Charleston, I was shocked to see the snow coming down! Once I arrived at Stephen’s house, we made dinner and settled in to watch the opening ceremony of the Olympics. We watched for about 15 minutes, when the tv clicked off and the room became pitch black. The power had gone out! With nothing to do, and no candles or flashlights to help give us some light, we decided to take a drive and check out the snow-covered city of Charleston.
We drove around The Citadel and watched the cadets build snowmen. Then we drove through downtown and back to Hampton Park. I really did not want to get out of the car, as I was not properly dressed for cold weather. But Stephen insisted that we brave the chill. 
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I was absolutely frozen solid and wanted to get this jaunt over with.
I think my facial expression and foggy glasses say it all. Charleston is supposed to be warm.
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For Stephen and I’s Valentine’s Day celebration, we went shopping! I promised I would buy him a new pair of running shoes as his V-Day present. He’s had the same pair of shoes for almost 2 years now, so I was more than happy to purchase him a new pair. After perusing shoes at several stores, Stephen finally found a comfy pair at the Adidas outlet.
Ta da! I hope you get many miles out of these, Stephen!
After shopping, we stopped at one of our favorite places: Barnes and Noble. I never buy anything, but I just love sifting through the books and discovering potential reads to pick up at the library.
Stephen ended up buying some Clive Cussler books.
After Barnes and Noble, we hit up one of our favorite restaurants for dinner.
Jasmine Thai Restaurant 
We love this place! And it turned out that they were having a buy one get one free entree special. You can’t beat that!
Best red curry ever.
Happy Valentine’s Day to all! This picture is from Valentine’s Day last year.
It was a truly special V-Day. Not only because it was my first Valentine’s spent in the same country with Stephen (the year before, he was in Afghanistan serving our country), but because this was the day we discovered our deep love for red curry! An important day, indeed!
Enjoy the last few hours of your holiday!
What’s one food you recently discovered, and you now have no idea how you lived your life without it?
That curry looks really good. Glad you had a nice night.
I was freezing in the snow too. Probably because my warmest jacket is that exact one that you are wearing!
It looks like you had a great V Day
The shoes were a great present- did you get anything??
I have no idea how I lived for so long without trying raspberries!
I loveee Thai food too, so good! I don’t know how I lived without Greek yogurt – it just became available in Canada and now I eat it almost daily.
oh wow, that thai food looks delicious. there is a thai restaurant i want to try out around campus.. red curry sounds awesome! hmm i recently discovered almond butter. love it! cute snow pics and you and your man are hotttiess
awesome pics hon! I cant believe the snow! Gorgeous pics but Im so a warm weather person. It always looks so pretty though. That is some awesome looking thai food! I absolutely love red curry. I think its one of my favorite things to eat. You two are so cute together. Great pic! I hope you have an awesome night!
I love these sea cakes I have discovered – tofu and sea vegetables
I love your snow photos, we have a jasmine thai restaurant in my town!!!!
I use quinoa flakes for my porridge its just like oat flakes yummy! x x
Haha, LOVE your face in the car after that snow walk!! Trust men to always drag people into walks at stupid times/places..my dad does it all the time!
My recent food discovery – PEANUT BUTTER!! Only in the last 2 months or so have I discovered the joy of this food
Before that it was kabocha squash…talk about mouthgasm!
Have a great day
That is exactly what I do! I love going to book stores and just perusing everything. Then saving the dough by hitting up the holds list at my library
I also like going to the site bookmovement.com and going through their long list of top books one page at a time (I’m only at page 30 of like 500!) and putting things on hold that seem to interest me. It hasn’t steered me wrong yet. 
I thought our snow here in southeast VA was crazy, but that’s even nuttier! And my family down in Atlanta got pummeled too! It’s been an insane winter.
Your Thai dinner looks so yummy. I got sick of that stuff after working in a Thai restaurant for a while, but now it all looks so yummy.
I recently discovered PB2 powdered peanut butter and now I try to find a reason to eat it daily or put it in baked goods. So yummy and healthy!!
So glad you had a nice Valentine’s day, despite the nasty weather. But it’s fun getting out and playing in the snow sometimes, right?! I can’t believe the power went out! I hope that doesn’t happen here, we are supposed to get 9 inches today, yikes.
I knew I loved quinoa, but recently I have fallen in love with it all over again. That and sweet potatoes!! I eat them both everyday and couldn’t live without them. The coconut milk I send you will be perfect for your red curry!!
almonds. I used to not be a big nut person, but in the past 6 months or so I have been loving some almonds!
sounds like you had a nice Valentine’s Day! we go 6 inches of snow here in Mississippi. It’s DEFINATELY supposed to be warm, here!
OMG. Lily you are so pretty!
BTW I’m a huge nerd-o as well and love to browse books..just to look and feel them!! I can’t believe it snowed there! Our world is ending!!
It looks like you had so much fun! The pic of you in the car is priceless!
ummmmm one food I can’t live without….that is tough-maybe almond butter!
xoxo
Love all the snow photos… very pretty. It was freezing cold here in Houston.. no snow though.
I am glad you had a good V-day
What a fun Valentine’s Day!! I think the product that I recently tried and now am addicted to (FOREVER) is kombucha! Seriously I started drinking it about a year ago and I don’t know how my life was without it! haha!!
That is a cute picture…you guys are a VERY attractive couple!!
Jasmine Thai!! I used to love going there!!!
lol– I think it snowed once in my four years of living in Charleston, and people were going CRAZY!
Aw, looks like a great day! You and your man are hotness together
Just sayin’!
Hmm my favorite food right now that I could never go without has got to be coconut oil. I put it on e’rything these days! Oh, oh, and almond milk! It has stolen my heart, for sure.
Beautiful snow pictures, Sister. Come to MO and see some real snow:) I made lentil curry for my birthday tonight. Have a great week!
Cute pic of you two! I didn’t know you were dating a military guy too- very cool! Love the pic with the foggy glasses- I would have been feeling the same way, haha
The food I learned I can’t live without is avocado! I started eating them a few years ago, but it was one of those times I was just like, omg how have I never had this before! Now I’m obsessed. Cute snowy pics!
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