After leaving Sea World, our next destination was:
The old lighthouse at Point Loma.
This whole hill/mountain thing is owned by the military. I didn't really listen or read about all the details and I'm not huge into history, so I'm probably getting this wrong, but the main thing i got out of it was: they used this as a navy base? kind of, i think? and they used to use this old light house, well as a light house. but now , they don't use it anymore, they have another light house, down by the shore that we weren't allowed to go to.
it was such a pretty place, and I didn't really like that the military owns it, because they make stupid rules like making you pay before you can go in or closing it all up at 5 pm. We didn't follow either one of those rules, though. So, I guess the military isn't that bad.
I've always wanted to go up at the top of a lighthouse, and andy knows it.
you could go inside of it, even though the park was "closed" so you weren't supposed to. but there were other people in there, so we went too. yeah, we basically just do what everyone else does. I guess we're just kind of cool like that. haha.
But it you WEREN'T supposed to go in the very very top of it. It was blocked off. Andy turned back around and said "oh well". I was like, "uhh, no". We waited til everyone left, and I simply moved the little doorway thing that was blocking it, and yes, we did climb up into the top!
hot , glorious picture of us at the top of a lighthouse!!
Andy was worried the whole time. he doesn't like breaking rules, and I was wearing BRIGHT orange.
this is what we moved, and snuck up through.
but then, andy got all sorts of nervouse because he thought a ranger spotted us.
sure enough, it was a ranger. so we got out of there pretty darn quick.
the ranger told us we needed to leave now and that it was past closing hours. but we had already done what we wanted to by then! haha, take that ranger!!
then, not because i happen to love cemetaries, trees & ocean, but because it happened to be the next thing we came across after getting kicked out of the park, we stopped here!
love it. it was haunting. and beautiful.
but the sun was going down! we had to book it to "sunset cliffs" to watch the sunset.
luckily, it wasn't far.
then after there was no more sun to see, we left.
this is when andy started getting so smooth and tricky. and me, never thinking anything of it, of course. he stops here: at this quaint little flower shop.
i saw him buy the flowers, i saw him take them to our condo with us, we left the room together to go eat, then he pulled a quick one by saying he left something in the room and that he'd meet me at the car. I was like, ok whatever. I'm so clueless! He was doing this! for me!
and this is what I saw when we got back from dinner. he said he had to go to the computer lab to check our account and that he'd be up in a minute. here's me being clueless again!
i open the door..
he made me listen to a tape that told me in what order to open each individual gift. it was so sweet. there were a bunch of them and each had a cute reason of why he loves me. here are a couple. I LOVED IT!
i love sweet things like that and he knows it! he can always think of these sweet , romantic gift ideas. our first valentines day, he did a scavenger hunt for me all over the town in Logan, where I'd find meaningful gifts. and our first anniversary , he suprised me with a cute charm bracelet and a promise to give me a charm every year we're married that signifiies that year of our lives together. I love that! I have a sand dollar charm (from when we went to catalina on our honeymoon), a baby bootie with november's birthstone (for jax), and a temple charm (for getting sealed in the temple) . I can't wait to see what he comes up with this year.
and then i'm lame and give him a watch & sunglasses.
IT WAS A WONDERFUL V-DAY!
ohhh i wanna go back and do it all again!
