The Date Inspired by the Letter P

Wait. Didn't we skip the letter O? We did! We'll come back to that one. (I had planned to do that one while we were at the lake, and we didn't go to the lake, so the date didn't happen.)

ANYWAY. This one was fun!

(Fun fact: that band shell behind us? It was the location for some of our favorite engagement pictures! HEY! Same chalkboards!)

But I digress.

Our date took us back to Marion, and our first stop was to get Polar Pops! (Haven't had a Polar Pop since we moved!)

 Up next? Pizza King to pick up dinner. While there, Ryan tried to play Ms. Pac-Man, but it wasn't working right. (AKA, wasn't participating.)

After picking up our pizza, we went to the park for a picnic! (We ate beside the band shell.)

As you might imagine, after all that Polar Pop intake, we needed a restroom. What we found were pathetic potties that frankly scared us. We used them anyway.

And a few minutes later, we found these brand spankin' new potties we knew nothing about. Of course. Sigh.

I will give Marion credit for this: they have a spectacular park. Better than our one in Kokomo, in fact. We paused to walk through the pretty gardens, which are stunning and have expanded since our move a little over a year ago.

We found the bench (you can sort of see it between us there) that was also a location from one of our favorite engagement photos.

 (Five years ago...)

I found a new hairdo. Pink, even.

And we found a new Garfield! (If you don't know, Marion has a trail of Garfields, and we did the whole trail when we toured that county.)

After we left the park, we went to our last stop for the night: putt putt!

We've never played putt putt in our entire relationship. I was a little nervous about it because I thought Ryan really didn't like it, and I'm terrible at it. But we decided to go, have a good time, and see what happened! The conditions were pretty perfect actually. We were the only people there for quite a while, and then another couple showed up. But they were far enough behind us that we weren't rushed. So nice! And the weather was spectacular!

Some sights from our evening:

What? Is this not proper form?

 A for-real hole in one!

 I didn't get a hole in one, but I did manage to get into this tunnel, which bought me a stroke! I have no idea how I did that.

 And on the return-your-ball hole, we both made it into the magic center, so we won free games!

So that was our date! We loved it. One of our best, I think!

Linking up with Tamar!