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Choose your own
Valentine adventure
Trying to decide how to celebrate your sweetie on Feb. 14? Let CVN help you plan a Valentine’s Day perfectly suited to your unique brand of love. Just answer a few quick questions and plan accordingly.
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Start Here: Does your schedule accommodate a day (or evening, N o or hour) of romance? Got time and talent in the kitchen?
Yes Love your lady or gent while also loving your local farmers. Prepare a dinner with beef grown by the Carpinteria Watkins family or Sage Hill Farm chicken. Pick up veggies at the Carpinteria Farmers Market or The Farm Cart.
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Valentine’s Day doesn’t have to be a big show. Fill a mason jar with coupons for priceless gifts such as foot rubs and breakfasts in bed and/or love notes for your lovey.
No pain no gain? Recreate the most romantic meal you’ve savored together. Perhaps it was alongside a Venetian canal, or maybe in that San Francisco hole in the wall.
For great views that don’t require the physical exertion, grab a pair of burritos and take your honey to the picnic tables on the ocean side of the Venoco building, 5661 Carpinteria Ave.
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No Feel like staying in for the evening?
If you’ve got other plans on Feb. 14, bump your day of love to Saturday, Feb. 15 and catch a romantic classic film at Plaza Playhouse Theater. “It Happened One Night,” winner of the 1934 Best Picture, will screen at 2 p.m.
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Mind dropping a few dollars for a Valentine’s to remember?
No Got all day?
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Prefer to stay in town?
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Create your own highseas adventure/ romance by calling in sick for your lovebug and hopping on an Island Packers boat for a daytrip to Santa Cruz Island out of Ventura.
Get your sweetie’s blood pumping on a sunset hike up Franklin Trail. Pack a PeeBee & Jay’s picnic dinner to savor while sitting on Frank’s Bench with a Carpinteria panorama at your feet.
Prefer to observe Valentine’s Day in a traditional fashion?
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No Is your perfect evening just around the corner from home?
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Who says a simple night at home can’t be romantic? Order up a heartshaped Rusty’s pizza and pick up a Red Box movie at Albertsons or Vons.
Yes Fresh flowers never disappoint and certainly don’t have to be expensive when the growers are just down the road. An orchid from Gallup & Stribling or Westerlay will demonstrate your love with exotic blooms that last for weeks and weeks.
The Shoals Island Grill gives lovers an opportunity to feel much farther away than five minutes south on Highway 101. Patio seating allows for dinner by the light of the full moon and set to the sound of the waves.
Challenge your loved one to a scavenger hunt throughout town. Create a series of riddle-filled clues leading to places that are significant to you. The last item can be a box of hand picked chocolates from Chocolats du CaliBressan or Robitaille’s Candy.
Those looking to cut a rug or savor a slow dance with a special someone will be wise to head to The Palms on Valentine’s. Live music by The World’s Safest Band begins at 9 p.m.
Do you enjoy expressing yourself on the dance floor?
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Keep it mellow, and let the pros help you find the way to your honey’s heart through his or her stomach. Corktree Cellars has a special Valentine’s menu, while Zookers and Sly’s will complement their normal menus with Valentine’s specials.