- Cook fondue, pizza, soft pretzels, rice krispie treats or anything else that's available to make from scratch.
- Be tourists in your (or a) local town. Google your destination and find tourist attractions that neither of you have done before. Bring along a disposable camera and ask strangers to take pictures of you.
- Dress up to the nines and browse open houses in fancy towns or test drive pretty new expensive cars.
- Browse farmer's markets or craft vendor sales before closing time and try to make bargains.
- Buy a cheap basket at a thrift store then, on a nice day, load the basket with sandwiches, cupcakes and lemonade. Find a perfect spot in a park and have a picnic. (or pack strawberries & grapes, cheese & crackers, sandwiches, a little bottle of apple cider and plastic champagne glasses).
- Dress in proper attire and go for on a hike.
- See animals at the zoo. Check your city's website for 'free days' that museums and zoos have.
- Visit the puppies and kitties at the animal shelter or store.
- Camp indoors. Set up a tent next to the fireplace, along with 2 sleeping bags. Roast marshmallows and make s'mores while telling each other ghost stories.
- In October, go to a pumpkin patch and find 2 wonderful pumpkins. Carve them together and make pumpkin pie!
- By candlelight, read each other poems or short stories. Drink sparkling apple cider in champagne glasses.
- Go bowling, play billiards, darts, ping pong, or go ice skating.
- Find a diner and share a malt (or a banana split.)
- Put together a puzzle or play a board game (might I suggest 'Disney Scene It?' and Sequence.)
- Learn how to make a kite with basic around-the-house items, then on a windy day...go fly it.
- Go play B.I.N.G.O with the old folks or hit up a casino and score some free soda and hot chocolate!
- Go pick fruits. (apples, berries, yada yada yada.)
- Bring out stale bread and feed the ducks at a pond.
- Go to a playground in the fall or winter when children are at school. Swing on swings and slide down slides.
- Play hide and seek.
- Go to the arcade and play skee ball.
- Play mini-golf, ride go karts, go to a water park.
- Build a most excellent sandcastle together.
- Do a craft project; finger paint, origami, paper planes.
- Go to a class. Some classes have a 'first one is free' or a fairly cheap deal. So, take use of that.
- Volunteer!
- Hold a day where you trade off and do things that you've never done.
oct 7 2009 ∞
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