Warm Bodies and Cold Treats

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Michael's Date Night

Sorry we missed last week. We did have a date; Violet planned a very romantic Valentine's day date with a delicious dinner, fancy decorations (including candles), and lots of chocolate. It was a "cuddle date," where we sat on the couch listening to music and reading Pride and Prejudice. Things were so busy last weekend, though, that we didn't have time to put together the blog post.

This week we went and saw Warm Bodies, which is a funny romantic zombie movie based on Romeo and Juliet.  

We really enjoyed the film. It was funny and heartwarming, and very cute. Neither of us had ever watched  a zombie movie before, but this isn't a stereotypical zombie movie.

After the movie was over, we went to Krave, a local Frozen Yogurt place. We used some buy-one-get-one-free coupons and ordered some delicious frozen yogurt as well as some clam chowder and sandwiches for dinner. It was all very delicious. Violet got chocolate and cookies and cream yogurt, and I got pineapple and strawberry yogurt.

Yummy sandwiches

Delicious Frozen Yogurt

Movie Tickets: $12.00

Frozen Yogurt (with coupon): $5.85

Soup and sandwiches (with coupons): $7.49

Total Cost for this date: $25.34

People Watching

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Michael's Date Night

This has been a really stressful and busy week. I know we say that a lot, but hey, we're college students. Anyway, we wanted to do something relaxing and easy for our date, so we decided to go to the mall and go people-watching.

This has been something we've talked about doing for a long time, but we've never actually gotten around to it until now. We wandered around the mall, taking turns telling each other about random strangers and what they were doing. We're both creative writers, so this was fun and engaging for both of us.

Our stories included:

• A guy selling cell phones who was sad because he really wanted one of the phones he was selling, but he couldn't afford it.
• A young man looking at engagement rings in a jewelry store who really wanted to propose to his girlfriend of eight months, but he wasn't sure how she would respond or what kind of ring she would want.
• An old couple in Barnes & Noble who were both university professors who had fallen in love intellectually and went to Barnes & Noble every week for their date night.
• An older woman who worked at Dillard's who had worked at a department store as a young woman, but had quit when she got married. When her first grandchild was born, she started working at Dillard's and remembered how much she loved that kind of job, but she still got really tired every night at about 7:30 and she had to work until 9:00.

There were a bunch of others as well. We had a good time, and we also got in some window shopping!

Violet found this dress she liked at Dillard's

Always a great place to window shop!

We finished off with some delicious Valentine's sugar cookies with pink lemon-flavored frosting! Yum!

Total cost for the cookies: $3.22

The Alphabet Game

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Violet's Date Night

Michael and I have been traveling to graduate schools for him to audition. This week we left on Wednesday, and won't be back home until Sunday, so I needed to come up with a good traveling date. Though I came up with this idea for our trip, it can just as easily be done near home.

Because we would be on a road trip, to the magical land of Braum's ice cream, I knew we needed at least two things on our date:

1. A way to walk around after two days of driving.
2. A way to incorporate Braum's ice cream

So I decided to play a fun in-town version of The Alphabet Game. I started by inviting Michael with this printable, which you can download for yourself here:

After Michael's audition, we went downtown and played The Alphabet Game. Our rules were:

1. We had to call out the letter and what word it was in.
2. We had to take a picture of the letter.
3. We couldn't use the same word from the same location.
4. Whoever won got to pick out the ice cream for both of us at Braum's. 

Here are some of the letters we found:

  

And of course, the winning letter, found by Michael:

After the game was over we headed out for lunch, then went out to Braum's for ice cream.

Michael got peppermint and cookie dough for himself, and grape and dream (orange and vanilla) for me.

Price for the ice cream: $4.36 (I love Braum's)