Progressive Shopping Date

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This past Friday night, we went out on the town to celebrate. What, you may ask? The completion of our home improvement projects, which took four months to the actual day.

For some reason, both of us were ready to eat our shoes when Ryan got home from work {and even got home early, which was fun}, so we started our date with dinner. We proudly joined all the senior citizens in their hour and didn't even care.

Our destination? Here's your clue. It was the best choice to celebrate the end of the road of the house projects.

Did you figure it out?

If not, what about this picture? {One of my Facebook friends said he knew from the table and knives. LOL!!}

If you still haven't guessed it, here you go:

That was one GOOD dinner, too.

After dinner, we headed out for a progressive shopping date. Please note that we did not actually make a purchase at all of these locations. We just had fun window shopping. But my goodness. It was a fun night!

Of course...

Because it's not a date without Lowe's.

And then a little cruise through

Ryan was looking for a shirt to wear to a wedding. What do you think?

Maybe it's not his size. :)

Then just a quick spin through

And the happy place:

I noticed someone doing some yawning in this store, so we had to make a caffeine run.

And then Ryan's happy place store:

And a stop for some groceries. Yes. That counts as part of a date.

We decided to call it a night, but not before one "last stop."

See it there behind me?

Oh but yes.

I knew as soon as I saw the police car hiding behind the sign that yelling SLOW DOWN was not going to cut it. I yelled it anyway. Speed trap got us. Our first pull-over as a married couple, and a story to add to our list of traffic...incidents.

I highly recommend the progressive shopping date idea. I also highly recommend skipping the "last stop."