Forget the flowers. Forget the candlelit dinner. Forget the quiet routine that often comes after 30 years of marriage.

Barbara and Carlos Landeros forgot it all when a Valentine’s Day trip to San Francisco left them watching over a black camera bag with more than $11,000 in cash tucked inside.

The bag had been left sitting at a vista point north of the Golden Gate Bridge, amidst the bustle of heavy tourist foot traffic on a clear, warm day.

The couple waited for someone to return for the bag before eventually sorting through it and finding an envelope filled with U.S. money, a wallet with Chinese currency but no photo identification, several credit cards and an expensive-looking camera and lens.

“First I was thinking it was drug money,” Barbara Landeros said from her Vallejo home late last week. “I said, maybe somebody’s supposed to pick it up.”

For more on the story, see the Vallejo Times-Herald at http://www.timesheraldonline.com/ci_22658048