On Valentines Day – Sunday, February 14 – the Flamingo has gone all-out to put in place a complete romantic evening for you and your true love. A salsa dance lesson, after which you can practice your sizzling moves to the live Latin beat of Tito Garcia and his Orquestra La International is among the offerings.

Afraid of revealing to your true love that you have two left feet? “Not to worry,” says Irene Silva of Santa Rosa Salsa who’ll be on hand between 8 and 9 p.m. in The Lounge to teach the basics. “If you can count to eight you’ll do just fine.” After which, Garcia’s gotta-get-up-and-dance beat will keep you going until midnight. The Lounge’s line up of Valentines Day inspired cocktails – among them Besame (Kiss Me) and Tickled Pink – can’t help but provide added inspiration.

Pre salsa lesson, a romantic table for two in the candlelit Terrace Grill overlooking the moonlit pool awaits with a specially priced “aphrodisiac” four-course dinner.

With the next day a holiday – Presidents Day – take advantage of the Flamingo’s Romance Room Package. Along with an overnight stay at the spiffily renovated resort – how about a suite? – the package includes a Continental breakfast for two and passes to the adjacent Montecito Heights Health Club. While not included in the package price, plan to keep the romance going at the Spa at Montecito Heights by signing up for a couples massage ….to ease the muscle strain from all those newly practiced salsa moves, of course.

For a full listing of Valentine’s Day events visit http://www.sonomacounty.com/events or click here to see more romance packages.

If you’ve been a really longtime follower of the Peanuts strip, really long time, say since February 24, 1951, you’d probably have caught the coconut drift. In that strip, Lucy offered Charlie Brown a taste of her very special mud pie – sprinkled with coconut. Charlie Brown gives it a try and goes into a spasm of “This tastes awful!!” adding apologetically, “ I just don’t like coconut.”

You’ll learn this and more about Peanuts’ characters food preferences – and undoubtedly those of their creator – with a visit to the Upstairs Gallery at the Charles Schulz Museum, 2301 Hardies Lane in Santa Rosa, telephone 707 579-4452.

For example, you’ll find that Charlie Brown really disliked soggy cereal, hot dogs and angel food cake. Need a recipe for Seven Minute Frosting? Woodstock’s little bird friend, Harriet, chirps her recipe in a November 5, 1980 strip.

Featured in the exhibition are 20 Peanuts strips and copies of Peanuts cookbooks, along with an assortment of other Peanuts food-related ephemera that includes Schulz’ World War II-era drawings picturing him chowing down with his buddies.

The exhibition, titled Peanuts Cooks, will be on display until February 15 when May I Have This Dance? takes over the space, presumably providing a bit of inside information about how Schulz (speaking through his Peanuts characters) felt about kicking up his heels.

But back to the current exhibition. Should you wish to try your hand at a Peanut’s favorite recipe, perhaps you’d like to give this one a try:

Snoopy’s Peanut Butter Crunch Sandwich

1 slice whole wheat bread, spread with mayonnaise and peanut butter

3 strips crisp bacon

1 slice sweet pickle

Yum!!!