The note: Let's be a little spontaneous! This week's date will be planned around a word that you choose right now. Make it a good one! SHMILY!
The envelope: Inside was another piece of paper with the following.
Word:
What will we...
...wear?
...eat?
...do?
...talk about?
Where will we go?
What about a treat?
Spencer: The basis of this one was to pick a word and use the letters in it to determine what our date was going to be like! Amy and I have always had a word that, if you haven't noticed yet, we use with each other regularly. SHMILY! It is an acronym that means See How Much I Love You. So, since this is a date night of ours, I chose SHMILY for the word! It just happened to fit perfectly for the date!
What will we...
...wear? Scarves
...eat? Hotdogs
...do? Music games
...talk about? I spy
Where will we go? A nearby town that starts with "L"
What about a treat? Yogurt, frozen.
There were essentially two parts of this date. For the first, we went out to a restaurant that we had never been to in a nearby town. It was a small family-owned diner. There were enough pictures and objects in the place that we had fun playing I Spy with each other, trying to stump each other! We must have looked a little silly with the scarves on, but that's alright. Afterwards, we went to 3 Spoons to get some frozen yogurt, then headed home and played SingStar (Queen edition), a karaoke game for the Playstation. It was actually a rather fun date, and we could take our daughter with us, so that made it easier on us, too!
Amy: To be honest, I don't remember where I got the idea of this date from, but I think it turned out really well! It was a little hard to come up with each of the categories at first, but it wound up being a good combination of activities. Wearing scarves was a little weird, especially since it wasn't that cold outside, but the family-owned restaurant we went to was one we'd never been to before. The food wasn't anything special, but was good enough. I have to admit that Spencer's hamburger was probably better than my chili dog. Playing "I Spy" really put us in touch with our inner child and I think both of us are looking forward to when our daughter is old enough to play. It worked out that we were able to make 3 Spoons, our favorite fro-yo place, a part of this date. We like being able to pick our own combinations of frozen yogurt and toppings. We also enjoyed playing SingStar: Queen after we put our daughter to bed. I did all of the singing while Spencer played the guitar. I think we even earned some trophies!
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Date 2: Spin the Wheel
The note: none
The envelope: Spin the wheel - it landed on "Video Games"
Spencer: This week was simple. I spun the little wheel Amy made for me, and it landed on "video games." Now, I have a decent number of video games to chose from. Amy likes to watch me play sometimes, so finding one that she would play with me narrowed down the possibilities quite a bit. On alternate Sunday nights we have been hosting a get-together with friends, and last Sunday we played a bunch of music games (Beatles Rock Band, etc.), so this week we decided to try a game we hadn't played in a while - Little Big Planet.
Little Big Planet is a "platformer," a game where you control a little dude (a "sackboy") and make him jump onto different platforms to solve a puzzle. You can also customize how he looks... or flirt with your wife by attaching cute buttons to her character. :D We decided to try some levels that other players made, something we'd never tried before. It was pretty fun, but certain levels can be either very easy (and boring) or impossibly hard (and... frustrating). I think if we land on video games again, I would like to try a music-related or story-based game.
Amy: I really enjoy Little Big Planet, but I have very little patience with it sometimes. Spencer really likes to earn all of the trophies for each of his games, and we were able to earn some new trophies by completing sections that are meant for two players. Some of the user-created levels were interesting (and some were not).
The wheel itself is from The Dating Divas and they have a printable so you can make your own, too. Their version is prepared with velcro so that you trade activities in and out. For us, I chose six activities to remain permanently. Apparently, Spencer has been plotting what to do when we land on "his choice."
The envelope: Spin the wheel - it landed on "Video Games"
Spencer: This week was simple. I spun the little wheel Amy made for me, and it landed on "video games." Now, I have a decent number of video games to chose from. Amy likes to watch me play sometimes, so finding one that she would play with me narrowed down the possibilities quite a bit. On alternate Sunday nights we have been hosting a get-together with friends, and last Sunday we played a bunch of music games (Beatles Rock Band, etc.), so this week we decided to try a game we hadn't played in a while - Little Big Planet.
Little Big Planet is a "platformer," a game where you control a little dude (a "sackboy") and make him jump onto different platforms to solve a puzzle. You can also customize how he looks... or flirt with your wife by attaching cute buttons to her character. :D We decided to try some levels that other players made, something we'd never tried before. It was pretty fun, but certain levels can be either very easy (and boring) or impossibly hard (and... frustrating). I think if we land on video games again, I would like to try a music-related or story-based game.
Amy: I really enjoy Little Big Planet, but I have very little patience with it sometimes. Spencer really likes to earn all of the trophies for each of his games, and we were able to earn some new trophies by completing sections that are meant for two players. Some of the user-created levels were interesting (and some were not).
The wheel itself is from The Dating Divas and they have a printable so you can make your own, too. Their version is prepared with velcro so that you trade activities in and out. For us, I chose six activities to remain permanently. Apparently, Spencer has been plotting what to do when we land on "his choice."
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