Last Valentine's Day, Sister Franchino and I learned that people don't like conversing with American strangers on a romantic holiday.  After some frustrating rounds and Germans' biting remarks, we sat on a park bench and called some of the elderly single women in the ward instead. Oh were they sweet!

This year, in stark contrast, not even the sleet could demolish Dallin and I's adamant resolution to make Valentine's Day 2K18 an event worth waiting for.   Plan A (visiting the ice castles) and Plan B (cooking campfire dinners) both fell through, so we whipped up a gourmet meal and drove in random directions till we reached a cliffside overlooking a starry valley.  Then, we used our colored pencils and got to sketching!