Reinstating Date Night

Back in January, I decided it was time to reinstate date night. There's so much that we haven't done around Chapel Hill, and it was a beautiful Saturday. One of those 70 degree days in the middle of winter. Apparently going to a public park is all the rage when it's so nice out in January, so we went to walk around the botanical gardens.

These flowers were one of the only things blooming!

Next we were off to walk up and down Franklin St. One of our missions was to find somewhere new to eat, but Pita Pit suckered us in since it had been such a long time since we had eaten there. We enjoyed Cold Stone for dessert and called it a night.

Since then we've been on some other fun dates! The idea is for us to take turns planning them. Here are some of our other dates from the past couple months:

• One weekend Joshua took me to dinner at Texas Roadhouse. It was a Friday night, and we waited an hour to be seated!! Good thing we already know their food is so delicious and was well worth the wait. Our rock-paper-scissors time passing also humored some of the other people waiting. The next night we used our Christmas present from Melissa's family and went to see Les Miserables in the theater.
• Ordering Papa John's and making it our mission to find a new $5 movie to buy and watch that night.
• Running errands, picking up dinner from Panera Bread, and going home to rent a movie.

Other weekends we've been sick and stayed home snuggled up, but we've already got some great dates planned for the coming months! And you've already read about Joshua's birthday weekend and our spring break kick-off! Good thing the kick-off was good, since Joshua spent most of the week sick. We're hoping he feels better in the morning, so he can go to school!