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Ain't Love Grand?
41 Date Night Ideas
by Julie Coulter Bellon

My husband and I have a date with each other every week and we have done that ever since we were poor starving university students. Sometimes I think it's needed even more now that we are the parents of six children and lead very busy lives. Taking a break just to be together is so important.  I am going to share with you some of my favorite dates and, if you try one, hopefully it will make you more aware of the romance in your life!

1. Take a blanket and go to the canyon, park, or even the back yard and look for constellations and views or just talk about hopes, dreams, or goals.
2. Take a look at specific dates and events in our journals and see what the other person was doing at the same time.
3. Go to the library and browse for books, videos, or CD's. Pick a book to read together and get two copies. Julie Coulter Bellon's books are especially good for this—-romance for the wife, adventure for the husband. (Shameless plug, I know.)
4. Go to the Dollar Movies.
5. Make a dinner and eat with no plates or utensils. Feed your spouse. (Spaghetti works well)
6. Invite your spouse home for a special lunch. Recreate your honeymoon spot.
7. Make a tape of favorite songs back to back (even silly songs) and have a private dance.
8. Take a Community Education class together. Many classes are offered like ballroom dance, hair cutting, massage therapy etc.
9. Have a snowball fight, build snow forts or snowmen, have a snow sculpture contest with another couple.
10. Fill your spouse's car with helium balloons that have a message in them. This is a great way to ask him out on a date.
11. Go bowling.
12. Go to the zoo.
13. Take a fun photo shoot of each other. Together you can make a scrapbook page out of it.
14. Go to a museum, then out for an ice cream.
15. Go on a Valentine Scavenger Hunt and end up at a hotel. (Scavenge your valentine's gifts i.e. sparkling cider etc.)
16. Rent some old romantic moves i.e. Casablanca, Crazy from the Heart, etc.
17. Have a game night with adult and children's games.
18. Give your husband a shave and let him give you a facial.
19. Go to the cemetery and look at old tombstones.
20. Watch the sunset from a park or lake. Feed the seagulls or ducks nearby.
21. Go to a fun center and play air hockey, video games, shoot a round basketball, mini-golf, bumper boats, or drive the race cars.
22. Go to a card store and read greeting cards. Show each other the ones you would give.
23. Go to a dinner theater and watch a musical or dramatic play.
24. Go to the planetarium.
25. Go to a park and swing on the swings or slide on the slide.
26. Have a "This is your Life" date and invite over old friends, roommates etc. to recreate your spouse's life.
27. Take a tour of a candy factory. Sample some of the goodies.
28. Have a hay ride. Or horse-drawn carriage ride.
29. Have dumb T-shirts made and wear them out together. "Bellon's have more fun"
30. Go to a genealogy library. Try to look up your family name.
31. Go hiking together.
32. Go fishing together.
33. Be a tourist and go to the tourist-y spots in your area.
34. Play tennis together, even if its your own brand of tennis.
35. Go horseback riding.
36. Fly kites together
37. Browse in a used book store. You never know what treasures you'll find!
38. Rent a tandem bike. Lots of times you can rent them at an outdoor equipment store.
39. Record a rhyme—or romantic poem and leave it on his/her answering machine
40. Plan your dream house interior, then window shop for the items.
41. Have a pancake shape making contest.

Dating makes marriage fun!

About the Author
 Julie Coulter Bellon is a Canadian-born LDS Romantic Suspense novelist who loves incorporating her native country with its complexities into her writing. Julie and her husband Brian are the parents of six children and her greatest joy is being a mother. She graduated from Brigham Young University with a Bachelor’s degree in Secondary Education--English teaching, and she currently teaches a high school journalism course for BYU Continuing Education. Visit Julie's site at http://www.JulieBellon.com

 

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