I'll admit it... we've gotten in a rut. Whenever we have a date night, it seems like we end up either going to a movie or renting one to bring home.
Boring!
I'm trying to compile a list of other ideas for date night-- nothing too extravagent, just good fun. Here are some of my ideas. Do you have any others?
Play miniature golf
Roast marshmallows and make smores
Go bowling
Watch the sunrise or sunset together
Read a book aloud together
Take a class
Buy the ingredients to make an ice cream sundae, and create it together
Visit a museum
Movie night
Go house viewing
Do something new in the city
Take a hike
Volunteer at a soup kitchen
Ascend to the top of the highest building in town
Make a picnic in the park
Rent canoes and paddle around the nearest lake
Take a cooking class together
Drive to a nearby town you have never visited before
Take a scenic drive
Take a bike ride
3 comments:
Good list, Patricia.
Janet and I can attest to the last idea on your list - a bike ride. However, if you each have your own idea of what "a bike ride" means, I suggest a tandem bicycle. If your marriage is strong, a tandem will make it stronger. If your marriage needs work, a tandem ride won't be your favorite date. It is all about togetherness, cooperation, and trust -- much more than what you need to watch a movie.
One of Gerald's and my favorite dates before we had kids and were broke was to go to a favorite bookstore, split up for an hour or two, each to his/her respective favorite sections to read and browse, then reconvene for a coffee/hot cocoa and share about what each had found to read. It was always one of our favorites since we both love to read and never seem to have enough time to do it.
I second the bookstore idea. We love to get a book from the humor section and sit and read it together.
Sometimes we'll take a small game (like Scrabble letters to play Take Two -- do you know it?) and go to a coffee shop and play. Once we took our laptop and played each other in computer games.
This would count as a new thing in the city, but we have several outdoor festivals here. We love walking up and down the street of a festival, people watching and sometimes sampling the snacks.
We also have an outdoor community theatre that is inexpensive...you could go to a play or a musical nearby.
You could go berry-picking together and then process the berries together or make something from them.
Wow -- I'm full of ideas. We should use some of them.
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