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[pir8]

Nice

[ScubaSis]

I found a nice shop today in the Woodlands, for those of you around Houston. It was across from the movie theatre at the Woodlands Mall. It was a neat little place called "Chocolata" It had a big E.C. on the doors when you reached to open them. When I went in I asked the lady "What is the E.C. for???" She said Everythings Chocolate!!! It was a chocolate lovers paradise!!! They had some things made up for Valentine's Day and places to sit and eat ice cream or candy. I was impressed. Check it out if you get a chance! It would be a nice little Valentines Day outing.

Edited by ScubaSis, 11 February 2008 - 06:14 PM.

[ScubaSis]

This is the first Valentine's Day in years when I've actually had someone in my life to focus my attention on. Unfortunately we can't be together that day, but we went out for dinner together last weekend. I'm not a big fan of giving cut flowers, although on our first date I did bring a single yellow rose tinged with red to suggest a friendship (yellow) growing into romance (red). She liked that. She said she didn't want chocolates because we're both trying to lose a little weight.

So I got creative and Googled the web for images. I found several that said "No Fat," "No Sugar" and a nutritional label that I modified to say no calories. I had an old heart-shaped Whitman's sampler Valentine box that had been filled with chocolates. I bought some Valentine Hershey's kisses (Godiva would have been better, but I didn't expect her to actually eat the chocolates).

I used my limited design and artistic skills to put together a label that included the images mentioned earlier, ones of Hershey's kisses, etc., and text that said these chocolates were specially formulated in the Hershey's factory to have all the taste and richness of chocolate but none of the calories so she could eat as many as she wanted without gaining weight and losing her appeal to any unknown competitors I may have out there. In addition to the chocolates there were brass tokens that said "good for a hug" and "good for a kiss."

When she opened the box, she thought the label was a real factory label and didn't read it at first. I told her to read it and she smiled and laughed. Oh, and at the end of the date she redeemed both tokens but kept them for redemption on future dates. And, being a gentleman, I will say no more other than that it was a magical evening.

Sounds like you did a great job!!!