Mystery Date

Today Ryan and I were blessed to get to spend time together on our "Mystery Date!" I'm sure you think that we're a fun, young couple that gets to do crazy stuff all the time. We do have fun, but I promise you that most of the time we spend together is less than crazy. Like most couples we fall into the rut of "What do you want to do?" "... I don't know. What do you want to do?" "....I don't know...." I'm think you can fill in the rest. Back and forth that usually leads to us just deciding to go eat at a usual place or go on a walk or just hang out at home. All of these things can be fun but every once in a while it's time to break out of the ordinary! So today I planned a mystery date for Ryan that included 3 parts (lunch, activity, dessert). For each part I wrote 2 choices on seperate cards that were a clue for what the choice might be. Ryan had to read the 2 clues and pick the choice he wanted without actually knowing what it was. For example, his two lunch cars read Spicy or Slicey. He decided on Slicey so we went to eat.....

Pizza! I purposely picked a place that we'd never been to for added surprise. This place was recommended to us a while back by one of our students (Thanks, Sydney!) and it didn't disappoint. We'd been looking for a pizza by the slice place since we often disagree on pizza toppings. The slices here were huge and only $2 a slice! Yummy and cheap.

This photo is just to show how handsome my date was. Wow. Look at those eyes. Good thing I snatched him up when I did.

I asked Ryan how his slice of pepperoni pizza represented who he was. He said that it's a classic and simple. He gets the same type of pizza everytime which represents that he likes things to be steady and stay the same. I'm the opposite and get pizza with tons of toppings and try something new all the time. Today I got a slice of the barbeque chicken pizza. I get bored with the same
thing and have many "layers" to my personality. Or maybe we just picked pizza that we liked.

Part of the ambiance of this hole in the wall restaurant (it's located right next to 7-11) was all of the local decor. I gladly posed by a photo collage of the Southlake Carroll Dragon drill team.

For part 2 Ryan picked the secret card that led us to a local nail salon. I found a place near us that offers cheap (but very clean!) pedicures. They even used a chocolate scented scrub and lotion. At one point I said, "It sure would be amazing if I was eating chocolate while they did this," and my pedicurist got up and walked off. I turned to Ryan and said, "Maybe he's getting me some chocolate!" Umm, no. Just a clean towel to dry my feet off. Oh, well. Some may say that a pedicure isn't very masculine, but I think that anything that leads to more cuddling is very manly.

My beautiful feet! I picked a sparkly cocoa color to go along with the other chocolate elements. A few months ago I decided that keeping my toes painted was just one more thing to keep up with and have had sans-polish toes since then. It was very relaxing to let someone else do the polishing. Plus I love sitting in the massage chair while my toes are spiced up.

The last part of our date was splitting a bowl of frozen yogurt at Yogurt Story. Our punch card was filled up so we got to trade it in for a free cup of yogurt with toppings! It was a sweet way to end our time together :)

I was so thankful that we got to have a fun date. Adding the clue cards made it exciting and Ryan was a good sport for going along with everything. I told him I'd save the 3 choices that he didn't pick for another date. Ryan has to work a lot over the next 2 weeks with Student Ministries, getting things ready at church for Easter, and helping to coach the high school baseball team. These are all such important things that I will gladly share my husbands time with the people he can minister too. But it's nice to get a few hours of special time with him when I can.

Thank you to my amazing mom who came and baby sat Eva! Without Mamy our date would have been a bit less romantic.