If everything in Cola got a Valentine’s Day card…
Happy Valentine’s Day, Cola. 💘 Remember way back when this day was simple? In elementary school you decorated a shoebox + collected paper cards from everyone in class. 💌 In middle school, you sent your friends those $1 roses or candy-grams sold in the cafeteria. 🌹 In high school, you low-key wished you were the person walking down the hall with that giant stuffed animal. In college, Valentine’s Day was just another made-up Hallmark holiday – so you went out and cheersed with your friends, instead. 🍷
But today, we’re throwing it back to the beginning. Colum-bae is our true love – so we’re handing out Valentine’s Day cards to all the things + places in Columbia that we adore so much. 💋 If this was real, here’s what we would drop in their pink + red bedazzled shoe boxes.
We just plane like you, CAE.
Thank you for keeping me grounded, Drip.
Dear Nightcaps mozz sticks: I know this is cheesy, but we think you’re grate.
Udon know how much I love you, Duke’s Pad Thai.
You improve our koal-ity of life, Riverbanks Zoo.
You make miso happy, Camon.
You put me in a surreal-estate of mind, The Moore Company.
Pawmetto Lifeline, can we be friends furever?
You’re my main squeeze, Southern Squeezed.
You Rock, Columbia Canal + Riverwalk.
Photo by @bear8s
Bill’s Pickin’ Parlor: We pick you.
You’re quite a catch, Columbia Fireflies.
Heroes in Blue, police be mine.
Nephron Pharmaceuticals, we think of you periodically.
You make me melt, Scoopy Doo Gelato in Five Points.
Photo by @colatoday
We have so mushroom in our hearts for you, City Roots.
We’re nuts about you, UofSC squirrels.
Let’s never put space between us, S.C. State Museum planetarium.
To: Lake Murray dam. Are you a beaver? ‘Cause dam.
Photo by @realadampowell
I aorta tell you how much I love you, Lexington Medical Center.
Harbison State Forest, wood you be mine?
You’re right up our alley, The Grand.
Dear Lowes Foods Beer Den: Are you a keg? Because I’d tap that.
Let’s be blunt; weed be great together, S.C. hemp farming.
You’re my partner in wine, Vino Garage.
You’re puuuurfect for me, Cattitude Cat Cafe.
Us together makes a lot of cents, South State Bank.
Experience Columbia SC, our hearts burn for your city lights.
Photo by @backfortyaerialsolutions
Not going to lie, this was probably the most fun I’ve had with a newsletter (for obvious reasons); literally chuckling to myself the entire time while writing these V-Day cards.
Moral of the story: I just really, really, really love you, Columbia.
–Sam
