Bekah's Bits: More than 50 First Dates (UPDATE!!!)

Tuesday, March 15, 2022

More than 50 First Dates (UPDATE!!!)

I was hunting for a picture yesterday and happened upon this post I wrote back in 2014. I had put together a gift of date ideas for a bridal shower and wrote about some of our experiences with the very suggestions I'd given. It was fun to look back through those and see some of our favorite dates!

But we've actually done more of the things on the list since I wrote that post (and done some of them again...) so I thought I'd do an update post today, just for fun!

* Build a blanket fort and watch a movie in it. (Still need to do this one.)

* Camp in the living room for a slumber party. We do this one every Christmas Eve, so here's our latest updated photo!)

* Go ice skating. We had not done this the last time I posted about it, but we have now! Only one time - because I was TERRIBLE at it, but it was so much fun - and we had almost the whole rink to ourselves!

* Have a Disney movie marathon. (Not yet!)

* Go sledding. We've done this now! We don't have a picture of us together, but I do have pictures from that day! (No one else was on the hill, so we didn't have anyone to photograph us together.)

* Paint the snow with spray bottles filled with water dyed with food coloring. (Not yet!)

* Play snow football. Paint the snow to look like a field. (Not yet!)

* Make chocolate covered strawberries. And eat them. Well...we've eaten them,, but I don't think we have ever made them yet, so we'll keep this one on the list.

* Drive through town and build a buffet made of dollar menu items. (WHY HAVE WE NOT DONE THIS ONE YET??)

* Have an indoor beach party in the middle of winter. (Not yet!)

* Watch movies on mute and make up your own dialogue. (Not yet!)

* Play "Would You Rather?" I don't think we've done this one since I last posted, other than playing it for blog purposes now and then.

* Fly a kite. YES!! We did that over Lake Michigan a few years ago, and it was so much fun!

* Walk through the park. Oh my, yes. We've walked through many, many parks throughout the years.

* Be a tourist in your own hometown; check out the stuff you've never seen. We've lived in three towns now in our marriage, and we've had a lot of fun checking out all the local stuff in each one!! I think one of my favorite Grabill memories was the tree lighting this past winter!

* Take pictures in a photo booth. We did this at Ryan's cousin's wedding, because she had an actual photo booth at her reception! I am not sure where those are, though, so will this count? It's from a work event! (We should have cuddled up more. We were trying not to cover our faces with our signs or our signs with our faces.)

* Have a "power outage" date at home - no electricity allowed! (Not yet!)

* Make a wish list while window shopping. Every time we go to IKEA!!!!! (Which we have not done since we have moved to Grabill!)

* Have a funny movie night. I don't think I have an pictures from it, but we do enjoy watching a good comedy now and then here - when life has been heavy!

* Write a letter to yourselves in 20 years...hide them and read in due time. (We'd better get on this. At this rate, we're going to be in our mid-sixties by the time we can read them!)

* Go on a photo scavenger hunt. We've done several scavenger hunts through the years, and while this one wasn't a true photo scavenger hunt it was one of the most recent and one of my favorites. It was the Wayne County scavenger hunt that we did on one of our county tours!

* Watch clouds change shape - just like Carl and Ellie in Up. (We NEED to do this one this spring. For the rest alone!)

* Cook family recipes for each other. We haven't done this one quite like it's stated, but we did have a fun date learning to make my mom's candy last Christmas!

* Have a chocolate tasting night. This is SO on our list for when we visit Hershey (which we hope will be our next vacation). I did a chocolate tasting when I went years ago, so if they still have it, I want to do it!

* Go to the driving range. We did mini golf a few times! Does that count? We just did it at Crazy Pinz for a WillowBridge Community Night, and I WON!!!!! (Also - Ryan is not REALLY eating the ball.)

* Go to the zoo. We've done this a few times over the years - and this past year we went to the Fort Wayne Zoo. It was a fun day! (Why were we so far apart? We were balancing out the letters, I guess.)

* Go hiking at a state park. MANY!!!!!! Our last one was last fall at Chain o' Lakes. Looking forward to a lot more of that this year!

* Have a fire pit date. We haven't done any of these in true date night fashion since moving to WillowBridge- because we share our yard with the tenants, so there isn't much privacy. BUT!! I mean if you count all the times we had fire pit dates on camping trips last summer, we have had a bunch!!

* Plant a perennial for future years' enjoyment. (Maybe someday!)

* Make homemade donuts. (Not yet)

* Have a water gun fight. (Not yet.)

* Go stargazing together. (We need to do this again!)

* Go to a drive-in movie. Yes! We've done this several times throughout our marriage!

* Have breakfast in bed. Have not done this nearly enough.

* Have a picnic for two in a boat at the lake. (Not yet!)

* Watch fireworks. Yes! Tons of times. But our last July 4th was a total and utter fail. Here's to a better run this year.

* Go up in a hot air balloon. (Not yet.)

* Play Twister. (Not yet.)

* Make a goofy video. (Always!!)

* Watch a sunrise, and then take a nap in the warm sun. I don't think we did the nap part, but we did watch some sunrises on our last cruise. That was fun.

* Go to a Farmer's Market. I don't think we have. We should.

* Watch funny YouTube videos after a bad day. We should also do this more often.

* Go on a garage sale scavenger hunt. (Not yet.)

* Watch a hit movie from the year of your birth. (Not yet.)

* Watch a whole season of a TV show at one time. Not at ONE time, but we have kind of binge-watched a few shorter seasons of shows since we've been here. If we have a long weekend and no plans, it's a fun thing to do.

* Create your own pizza and name it after yourself. (WHY HAVE WE NOT DONE THIS?)

* Go to an apple orchard. Yes! We've done this again since I last posted.