Valentines Day
From the moment I realized that I was going to ACTUALLY have a date for Valentines day this year, I started bugging Alex about what it was we were going to do. Being that I haven’t had a Valentine since I was in 8th grade, this was kind of exciting for me. Previous years I’ve stayed home and had Alfred Hitchcock movie marathons, or horror movie marathons.. this year was a bit different.
I had been bugging Alex for weeks about figuring out what we were going to do, and then the weekend before Valentines Day, I stumbled across this:
The Gold Class Cinemas are these super fancy, totally classy movie cinemas, and we’re lucky enough to have one right by us in Pasadena. Being that we both love movies, this was a perfect way to spend Valentines Day. I sent the link to Alex, and he called right away and made reservations for us to see The Wolfman at 10:15. Perfect.
On Saturday night we had Pimms and Lemonade and played Apples to Apples with the roommates. Woke up Sunday morning and amused myself playing with my DS, reading Bruce Campbell’s Autobiography and then when it got to be noon, I turned on Jurassic Park so Alex would wake up (which he did – he heard 10 seconds of the movie and asked “Did you go downstairs and get my copy of Jurassic Park?” – so cute). After getting up and dressed we set off for lunch and to find something to do.
Since we were going to be having a fancy dinner, and we are tight on money, we were okay with being a bit cheep with our lunch. We got drive thru from our favorite fast food joint and drove up the hill to Huntington Library – a beautiful park/art library that is quickly becoming one of our favorite spots. There we grabbed the Pirates of the Caribbean blanket out of my car, 2 books (mine – Soulless by Gail Carriger and Alex – Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein: Prodigal Son) and our lunches and picniced and read until it got dark.
After stopping by my place so I could change and get ready, and stopping by Alex’s place so he could do the same, we took off for Old Town Pasadena for our date.
We got there about an hour early, which left us just enough time to browse the nearest Barnes and Noble (one of our favorite places). At 9:45 we checked in at the cinema where they seated us outside the theater and served us drinks while we waited to enter. The Valentines Day package came with 3 drinks each, so we started off with our first, a Stella, while we waited. At about 10:00 a waitress (in a very tiny dress) came and picked up our drinks and showed us to our seats. The best way to describe the seats in the theater is comparing flying first class to flying coach. If typical theater seating is like coach, Gold Class is like first class.
Basically… describing the seats wont do justice, see for yourself:
Yeah, nice, right? The seats recline so far that you’re almost flat, there’s leg rests, a table between the two seats and a little button on the table for you to call your waiter (should you need a pillow, blanket or refill on your drinks). Because it was Valentines Day there was a rose and a box of chocolates on the table, waiting for me, I felt so special.
After everyone was seated, the trailers started, we got a refill on our drinks and as the opening credits for The Wolfman began, they brought out the first course of our meal. I was a bit afraid that being served food while trying to watch a movie might be a bit distracting, but it wasn’t that way at all. The servers were quiet and did not distract from the experience. A half hour after the first course, we got our main course and then a half hour after that we were served dessert. How was the food? It was fancy. For most people, that’s perfect, but I’m a meat and potatoes kind of girl, I’m the pickiest eater I’ve ever met. So every plate that appeared before us, I’d let Alex take a bite, and then I’d ask him what it was, and he’d tell me if I’d like it or not. I ate about 1/3 of everything we got served.
After a fancy three course meal and three rather large glasses of beer, the end credits for Wolfman we rolling and it was time to leave. The movie was awesome, both Alex and I loved it quite a bit – but I believe Alex is writing a review for it, so I’ll let him tell you more about what we thought.
All in all, it was the perfect Valentines Day. 
