Romantic Valentine Dinner

Last Valentine's Day I talked my Boyfriend into going with me to serve a noon time meal to the homeless. The place I go to do this a few times a year is well run. We just show up and listen to our instructions.

There were 8 of us. First we had to put on plastic aprons, gloves and very attractive hair nets.

Since it was Valentine's Day some friends from my church had made about 150 decorated cupcakes. It was so much fun to add this treat.

The set up is like a cafeteria/assembly line. Each volunteer stands over a tray of food so when the plate comes by we just put that particular food on the plate and pass it to the next volunteer. The last person hands it to the homeless person (guest.) Sounds easy, right?

But the thing is that there are a couple of hundred people lined up. We serve for one hour. At that time this shield rolls down and we're done. So we have to do this really, really fast.

It's the worst feeling in the world to see the people who didn't make it in time.