jordan and i typically don't go overboard for valentine's day. but, this year it was a different case. as i mentioned in this post, february was just pretty crazy, with starting a new job that was a little more difficult than i thought. it was hard for me to share how hard it was, because i wanted to be excited, but after sharing with jordan just how tough it was, i think he knew i would enjoy something a little special for valentine's day.

jordan met me in indianapolis, which was really nice to be able to see him after school, and not have to worry about getting up super early to make the long commute to work. he planned out the entire evening, first we had dinner at bazbeaux pizza.

the fun thing about the hotel was that is was once a train station, and had a lot of the features on display, our room was even next to the real track and a train! it was very neat.

to end the night, we went for a swim in the pool at the hotel, had chocolate-covered strawberries that jordan had made and some champagne. and went to bed early! it was so nice and great fun to be had on a thursday night. oh, but here's a funny story... as i said, the hotel was an old train station, so at about 11 o'clock, we heard this loud obnoxious noise that sounded and felt like the train next to us was about to ram into our room. of course, jordan managed to not notice at first (unbelievable) but then we checked in the hallway and saw nothing, but a bunch of other concerned guests. we finally concluded that it was possibly supposed to happen as a feature of staying at a former train station. it happened two other times throughout the night and every time it was just as shocking. i woke up in the morning with a headache, but laughing that this managed to happen when we were planning for a restful evening. looking back on it, i still don't know how we didn't know about it before.