Creative Dating Ideas: Themed Dates

If you’re looking for a fun, original date, try choosing a theme that will help you plan. You could start with a theme such as “new things” and structure a date around experiencing things, places or restaurants you and your date have never been, or you could choose a place such as Hawaii or Italy to give your date inspiration and a sense of cohesion. Shelby made a lot of great memories by choosing Mexico as her theme. Listen to what she did…

I will never forget the date I set up for my boyfriend in between his business trips. He had two destinations lined up and would only be able to return for the weekend in between each trip. Once he arrived home late on the Friday night following his first trip to Kansas City, I knew Saturday was going to be a rather dull day as most likely he would be somewhat bummed over having to do it all over again the coming week. Knowing that his next trip was going to be to Mexico and that he had missed out on Cinco de Mayo celebrations during his first trip, I decided to get him in the mood for Mexico a little and planned an entire Saturday date themed around Mexico. I first let him “siesta” as late as he wanted that day while I made him Huevos Rancheros for breakfast and put together a travel list of the “Top 10 Reasons for Loving Business Trips to Mexico” as well as a themed care package which contained spicy snacks and a few English to Spanish translations. Once breakfast was complete, I informed him that the afternoon’s festivities would include games with Mexican themes and my brother and his girlfriend surprised him by showing up to be part of the fun. The first game we played was a dominoes game called Mexican Train and the second was called Buenos Amigos, a game that my brother’s girlfriend showed us where you essentially set a timer and write down as many nice things about the person on your right as possible. Being that there were only four of us, each couple wrote a list for each other. However, I told him we needed to save our lists to read until he was in Mexico. We then watched an independent film with Spanish subtitles that my brother’s girlfriend brought over and we all made nachos and margaritas. By the time it was ready to send him off my boyfriend he was thoroughly cheered up and ready for his trip thanks to my day-long Mexico-themed, low-key date which I completely recommend to anyone, even if no trip is planned!