Date Night Ideas For You and Yo Man!

I do find myself doin' that 'ol google search, the one where you type "ideas for date night" or see also "please help me keep my boyfriend entertained so he doesn't get bored and set something on fire to see how it will melt".
For all of you wondering why I am on the fence about having Kids its because I am already dating one--and he is a lot of frekkin work. (but he's worth it)

I've compiled a list of date night faves that Bubs and I have actually done. Sure. some are cheesy, but thats what happens when you're in love you get full of cheddah. 

Go Kayaking or Canoeing on a Lake

Bubs and I live on Long Island so we are literally surrounded by water, so for those of you that are land lock you might have to setting for bobbing up and down on a pool noodle in a kiddie pool. We like to hit up our local deli and bring sandwiches out on the canoe with us so we can eat them out on the lake. Its quite romantical.

Go to the gun range

It's true, I dig the gun range. I've only been once but let me tell ya, something about shotting a shot gun while wearing a little bow in your hair is kind of bad ass. Plus Bubs got to brag to his buds that his woman shot a gun and dug it. Yeah, its unconventional but just give it a shot! (Ha, "give it a shot"…I crack myself up) If you are really uncomfortable going to the gun range then try skeet shooting. It's that sport where you yell PULL! and then a clay disk comes flying in the air for you to shoot. The one thing I WOULD NEVER DO is go hunting, I think bambi deserves to live. Bambi I go your back girl (or boy, I'm really unsure what Bambi's sex is)

Get a couples massage
I wrote back in the day about my love for groupon and living social. They are ALWAYS posting deals on there for massages at 40% off. My only tip if you have never gotten one before is to go early in the morning before you shower and wear "loose" clothes. Bubs and I made this mistake before. You will get covered in massage oil, and although most of it gets absorb into your skin there is still some left over. The last thing you want is to slip into some skinny jeans while your legs are glistening from oil-super yuck.

Tandem Bike Rides or Ride the Bike Tails
There are places by us who rent out Tandem bikes to couples (those are the 2 seater bikes). Or you can do what Bubs and just go out on a nice bike ride somewhere and just relax. We usually end up at some ice cream parlor (weird…)

Crash a wedding
THIS HAS BEEN ON MY BUCKET LIST FOR FOREVER. It will happen. Bonus? You and your date get to get dressed up and eat free food. I mean really what more can a girl want

Feed the ducks!

Go to your local lake/pond, grab your stale bread and feed some ducks! They'll be your new best friends AND you can de-clutter your bread drawer. Win win?

Go on a picnic
This is one of my faves. We usually hit up our deli, get some sandwiches and set up a picnic at our local park. We also bring something with us like a frisbee or a football that we can toss around to keep us entertained.

Go on a photo excursion

I dont know how many of you guys are photographers out there, but sometimes when we're super bored we hop in the car and just drive around with our cameras. If something catches our eye we pull over and do a mini photo shoot. Its spontaneous, fun and you get some awesome photos out of it!

Batting Cages
I've actually never done this one yet but its on my to-do list. The batting cages are fairly inexpensive, and the best part is if you miss the ball you dont have to keep bending over to pick it up--which means you wont sweat on your date. I try not to over exert myself whenever possible (ha)

Go Karting
I don't care how old you are go-karting is the frekkin BOMB. It's fun to get a group of people to go and do mini go-kart races. 

Pick some fruit!

There is always some sort of fruit in season at some time. We usually go apple picking out in the hamptons and make some kick ass apple pie.

Visit the puppies at the pet store
Since bubs and I live in an apartment we unfortunately can not have any pets. So in order to make up for it we sometimes visit the local pet stores and play with the puppies who don't have homes yet. Its a win-win because it at least gets the puppies out of the crates for a while and we get to enjoy spending time with our "temporary pet" for the next 15 minutes.

Have a nurf gun/water gun battle
Come on, act like a kid! Go to walmart, get a nurf gun for 5 bucks and let the war begin.

What date night ideas do you guys love to do!

Inspiration Workshop: Date Night

Lovin' this week's inspiration workshop prompt by Gussy! Home gurl has picked "date night" to be the topic of convo.

I take date night super seriously. There are too many times where the Bubs and I sit on our couch, get suckered into some god awful reality show marathon while I play on my iPad and he's all up in his Motorola Tablet (that was hard to admit just now. Yes, I'm a Mac, the Bubs is a PC, its been difficult in our relationship but we're working through it) (his PC tablet might conveniently go "live on a farm" for a while soon) 

One of my fah-vorite places to go to for date night is out in Hamptons. For all you newbies on the blog I frekkin love the Hamptons. It's quaint, full of art, full of color and full of awesome.

The bubs and I took a trip to Funchos which is this kick ass mexican joint in West Hampton.

The decor is simple but so inspiring to me. I love the driftwood distressed walls with the bold bright typography--swoon.

 Leo <3 Food. If I could I would get down on one knee and propose to this tortilla chip that I named Alfred. (don't tell bubs)

my date. hiya bubs.

obligatory "raise the roof" photo, you guys the 90s are coming back and I'm trying to help them out. Next week I'll show you all my sprinkler move.

Next to funchos is this adorable cupcake place that unfortunately was not open at this time, so I figured the next best thing was to take a pic of our reflection in the sad empty cupcake place. Actually, this was a terrible idea, just forget this ever happened.

so a close 2nd to cupcakes is of course handmade ice cream. Bubs and I always go to this ice cream joint every time we are out in the hamptons. The ice cream is to die for and I just love the old school vintage feel of this legit ice cream shoppe. How awesome is that letter press sign above? I almost stole it but it was the size of me and I figured they would frown upon that...

Now let me explain something about Long Island. We don't have a lot of antique shops. Which bums me out b/c I absolutely love spending a lot of money on old busted up broken dusty stuff. So bubs was on a mission to find me an antique shop. We turned to our good friend google and google brought us to this gem.

it's ok. I was speechless too. 

Apparently this "antique shop" had antiques all right. The place was FILLED with these old statues and movie set props. I'm convinced all these things come to life when the sun goes down. Home gurl was NOT going to find out if this hypothesis was true, so we high tailed it out of there.

Stupid Long Island antique shops.

what did you all do on date night??

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