The Date Inspired by the Letter "S"

Thanks for reading along with our crazy adventures yesterday. I am thankful to report that both Tuesday and Wednesday went much better than Monday!

I do need to catch you up on our weekend, though! We had another alphabetically inspired date. This time the letter S themed the evening. (If you're paying very close attention, yes we have skipped the letter R. I have plans that I want to save for closer to our engagementversary, so I skipped it for now.

See what I did there? We skipped ahead to the letter S!

The theme for the night was supper at Sonic and a selfie scavenger hunt. SWEET!

We'll start with the obvious: supper at Sonic. Our new Sonic is one that has indoor dining (most don't) so we ate our dinner in there along with all the employees on break. Ha!

I want to pause to say I got part of the evening's inspiration (via Pinterest) from this blog post. I know nothing about these bloggers, but I enjoyed their selfie scavenger hunt ideas!

We each picked a statement to describe the other, and then we went to the Treasure Mart (a fun place here in Kokomo) to look for letters to spell out our words. The Treasure Mart is a perfect place to find letters. I thought we did pretty well!

My word for Ryan:

Ryan's word for me:

We had so much fun with that!

Also while we were there, we looked for something super crazy to use as a prop in a picture. If you heard this week's blog, you know I "won" that round, although we really weren't keeping score. But seriously! A golf bag PHONE!

I really liked Ryan's find, though! (He had two. I'll show them both. The eagle figurine AND the wooden shoes!

Next up? A trip to Kohl's to pick out outfits for each other to try on. Silly outfits, we said. Of course then my mom worried we would post the photos and one of you would own one of these outfits and we would offend you. So then I started worrying about that too! So allow me to offer the disclaimer that these outfits just aren't representative of our personalities.

I picked Ryan's first, and I was already at at disadvantage. NOTHING could trump the flamingo suit he tried on at Easter.

I actually hunted around the store to see if they still had any left, but I couldn't find any! So I went with the Hawaiian shirt. Ryan's not a Hawaiian shirt kind of guy, so that's why I picked it.

And then he picked mine. In defense of this dress...it was CRAZY comfortable. (It was also too big, so that might have been why. It had pockets, and the material felt like jammies. And three cheers for vertical stripes. Every girl's friend!) Other than that, I just don't think I can pull off this look!

We also did still life portraits with mannequins, but those pictures were a little dumb looking, so I won't post them.

Next up was a challenge for each of us to pick a place in town that had been significant to our relationship. My top pic would have been the jewelry shop where he bought my ring, but alas, it's a vape lounge now. I wasn't sure that really matched our theme for the evening. We learned the town hasn't created too many significant locations for us yet, other than (of course):

 and:

Our last planned stop of the night was the Dollar Tree, where we were supposed to buy each other one surprise with only a dollar to spend.

Happily, both of our finds started with an S!

Shortbread cookies for Ryan...

 A silicone oven mitt for me!

Ryan threw in one fun extra before we went home (since we hadn't gotten dessert at Sonic). A sweet treat at the yogurt shop!

We ended the night with smooching but I don't have a picture!!!

It ended up being even more fun than I imagined...three cheers for a hometown date!

(You can read about all our alphabetical dates so far right here!)