Date Night

On Friday I went to the movie Date Night with a friend and I haven't laughed as much as I did for a long time. If you haven't heard - its a movie about a couple (the Fosters) who have been married for some time and life has drifted into ho-hum times; working, looking after children, home, work, children, home and so on. When one of their friends announce their marriage breakup - referring to their marriage as a couple of people who had become 'excellent roomates' -  it sparks the Fosters to rethink things and go a bit wild by spending their date night in 'town' - and there starts their adventure. I laughed throughout the movie because the conversations rang true -everyone one of them.

Instead of writing about the five lessons I learnt from the movie, I thought I would find five popular date ideas - that anyone could do. Some are hiliarious, some are things that we have tried, and others may be an alternate idea to try again. Whether the date ideas have been tested or not, the one thing I do know is that trying to 'hook up' with someone we love it not enough - we really have to make it happen and be resentful of anything that may impact on that time and activity. Here we go....

DATE NIGHT IDEA ONE - Learn to Dance
From http://www.getromantic.com/ was suggested that a great idea for a date is to take dance lessons.

How many of us, can aswer the same as in the movie Date Night when Tina was asked "when was the last time she had danced with her husband?", she answered - "our wedding day"?. I have a friend who took up dancing with her husband when her children left home, now they enter competitions and she loves it. Is it for you?

DATE NIGHT IDEA TWO - Go out for Pizza

From http://www.redbookmag.com/, Amy Keyishian suggests that when you go out 

for pizza - ask the pizza people to cut the pie into the shape of a heart. Can you imagine the look on their face as well as your partner when most of the good bits have been cut off ;-) Its a thoughtful suggestion - maybe not one of the best suggestions - but you can not go past a great pizza :-)

DATE NIGHT IDEA THREE - Star gazing

This must be pretty popular because it came up a few times. According to http://www.hotdateideas.com/  all you need is a blanket and some munchies and watch the stars and its pretty romantic. I think its funny because we have tried to do things on our deck and/or under the stars, and have instead rushed back indoors because it was too cold....maybe we aren't romantic enough - or old, or just too fussy ;-). Alternatives to this is going on to your roof, or balcony (who has one of those?) and watch shooting stars....

DATE NIGHT IDEA FOUR - Picnic and movie

Another popular idea that seems to be floating around is filling a room with candles

and sitting on the floor and having an indoors picnic while watching a movie. I haven't sat on the floor to eat my food for a very long time - so not sure how that would go - but lighting candles and having them dotted around the house, bathroom, hallway all seem to top the romantic list :-)

And my favourite...

DATE NIGHT IDEA FIVE- Write a letter

http://www.coolestdates.com/ suggested for the agegroup between 40-49, that you show up with two pieces of stationary with envelopes (one for each of you) and some paper and pens. You then write each other a letter describing how you feel about the other person or anything special about the relationship and where you think you'll be or what you think you'll be doing in a certain amount of time. Then, agree to open your notes in a week, month or year. What a wonderful idea to remind each other of the reason why....

So there you go - five date night ideas. If you have more, drop them down and share....

Have a great week.

Yours in friendship,

Mxox