Creative Date #24 From my book entitled 101 Creative Dates: ideas, tips, and personal experience from the life of a hopeless romantic. I love creative dates. It is fun to come up with a new idea or put a twist on a classic idea and take a girl out and have fun. I had all kinds of ideas and personal experiences with dating, so I made a book about it and recently published in on Amazon. I decided to post each chapter of my book for free here on Steemit, but if you would like to buy the book you can find the link at the bottom. Don't let "Netflix and Chill" be the default for your dates! Married, dating someone, single, there is something for everyone!
Progressive Dinner
The progressive dinner is a lot of fun, but can wind up being expensive, depending on where you go. I actually heard about this idea while in college. The main draw about this is the opportunity to visit different restaurants and sample something at each. You won’t have a whole meal at each place, which might seem odd, but is actually pretty cool. This date is designed for a group, but can also be fun with just you and another person.
To prepare for this, you’ll need to think of several different restaurants you and your date might like to visit. Then you write them down on pieces of paper, and put those little pieces in your hat, or a bowl, or whatever you want, really. One of you picks the first paper, and whatever that restaurant is will be the spot for appetizers. Afterwards, pick again, and head on over to that restaurant for the main course. Then pick one more time for the dessert.
To make it even more creative, you can think up a little riddle that disguises the name of the restaurant. For example, for The Olive Garden, you might write something like this: “Popeye’s girlfriend probably enjoys eating at this Italian Restaurant.” You don’t want to make it so abstract that people can’t figure it out, but you’ll also get points for creativity. Depending on the company, you can be as clever or as simple as you want.
What you need for this date:
You will need little pieces of paper and something to write down the restaurant names with, plus a container to put them in.
My experience with this date:
In college, I planned a group date with my two best buddies, John and Tim. We wanted it to be creative so we planned a progressive dinner. The girls didn’t know what we were going to do; all they knew was that we told them not to eat dinner beforehand.
I went and picked up my date, Jackie, then met my roommates and their dates. We brought out the hat with the names of the restaurants and explained to the girls what we were going to do that evening. Intrigue and excitement filled their faces. The feeling of love bloomed in the air . . . okay, maybe I’m stretching the truth on that, but seriously, they were excited. They smiled and were eager to choose a place to go. The first we went to was a Mexican restaurant. The chips and salsa were really good, and appetizers just as tasty. We even had a guy come around with his guitar and play us music for some authentic ambiance.
The next paper was chosen and we went to a barbecue joint. We got messy eating ribs and Jackie and I bonded over cornbread. Exactly what I imagined true love to be, of course. The last place was an ice cream parlor, where I shared a nice bowl of bubblegum ice cream with my date.
Even though we didn’t work out in the long run, our progressive dinner was unique and memorable enough to stick with me forever.
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Video was filmed with a Canon 70D, with a 28mm 1.8 lens, and a Rode VideoPro Mic.
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