A Date Night Snow-loween

Ryan and I have always been very committed to date night. Unless there's just something crazy going on, we make time for date night once a week. We both think it's really important to make that a priority, even though it's just the two of us, and we can be alone together most any night of the week. It's not about the alone time or the talking time. It's about stepping outside the crazy, house-selling, commuting life to have intentional fun.

But the crazy, house-selling, commuting life has gotten the best of us lately, and often by the weekend, we just want pizza, movies, and our jammies. And so for the past few weeks, that's been our life. And it's been lovely.

But I was excited that this past weekend, we made plans to go out.

Friday was Halloween, and the weather reports called for snow. Like actual, measurable snow.

In October.

Yuck.

These are the sorts of things that will cause me to be home-bound, but not Ryan! I texted him Friday morning to ask if he had any idea what we might do for date night, and he suggested dinner out in Indianapolis, followed by Christmas shopping.

Melt. He knows the way right into my heart!

So we arrived home Friday night, in the middle of sleety, rainy, snowy yuck and got ready as fast we possibly could so we could go on our DATE!

We made our way toward Ruby Tuesdays, which is one of our favorite places to eat. I called about a half hour ahead of time to see if we could put in our name, and the guy who answered said, "Wellllll, you can, but I'm pretty sure you won't need to." We learned that Halloween is the time for kidless couples to go out to eat, because couples WITH kids are taking them trick-or-treating! The restaurant was almost empty when we arrived!

 We ordered entrees, but filled up on the salad bar, so our food came home with us! Ryan took advantage of the chance to get fish, since I refuse to have anything to do with cooking or consuming fish.

 Chicken for me! Predictable, party of one. :)

We had a great time eating and talking.

We headed toward the mall to shop...and we got there to see the place filled to the brim with trick-or-treaters. The sleet-turned-full-fledged-snow had driven everyone to the warm mall to parade around in costumes and receive candy!

So.................plan B it was!

Furniture shopping! We didn't buy anything, but we definitely had a lot of fun looking around!

And when we finished with all our shopping, we had to go see our good friend:

With two raspberry white chocolate mochas in our cold little hands, we headed home:

We passed a slide-off on our way home. First snow of the year and someone already hit the ditch. Be careful out there, people!!

Date night, plan B = a success!