THE MEIN'S DATE IDEAS

Dearest Readers,

Here is a list of 110 date ideas that DJ and I thought of one night for our FHE activity. Our goal is to do 1 date a week. They are mostly for the Provo/Orem area, but you can always tweak them to work for you! Hope you enjoy, and please feel free to comment and share your own date ideas, we would love to hear from you.
Happy dating! 

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Italicize= Seasonal Ideas

1. Get dressed up and go out to eat at a fancy restaurant
2. Do a 1,000 piece puzzle and order or make a pizza
3. Go to the BYU museum of art. Then make something artistic of your own
4. Build something out of cardboard boxes
5. Take a trip to Ephraim, Utah
6. Go to an Orem Owls Game
7. Build a blanket fort. Play games & eat dinner in the fort
8. Go to the Hogel Zoo
9. Make Italian food, listen to Italian music, light candles, and watch a movie
10. Go to a Utah Blaze Game
11. Taylor's choice dinner & a movie
12. DJ's choice dinner & a movie
13. Go to the Kennecott Copper Mine
14. Go to Park City & eat at the Mexican restaurant. Go on a hike
15. Go to a BYU game
16. Have a “Cake Boss” cake challenge
17. Go to This Is The Place State Park
18. Play touch football or capture the flag with friends
19. Order Chinese & play board games
20. Go Swimming (indoor in the cold, outside in the summer)
21. Have a picnic, (get Jamba Juice) & and then play soccer
22. Watch the movie “The Princess Diaries” then throw darts at paint-filled balloons
23. Go to a REAL Salt Lake soccer game
24. Watch the movie “Tangled” while making lanterns, and then go fly them
25. Go to a BYU basketball game (get cupcakes at Cupcake Cafe after)
26. Make homemade play-dough and have a flour fight
27. Go to the Living Planet Aquarium after watching “Finding Nemo” or “The Little Mermaid” Then go out for sea food
28. Go to a BEE's baseball game
29. Go to BYU's museum of Paleontology (http://cpms.byu.edu/EMS/information.html)
30. Go to a BYU soccer game
31. Make and sail a pirate ship after watching the movie “Pirates Of The Caribbean”
32. Go to a Jazz game
33. Paint a picture of each other, blindfolded. Then go play basketball at the Apartment
34. Go to a hockey game
35. Go roast marshmallows and Starbursts and read your scriptures in the mountains
36. Go on a weekend camping trip
37. Stay at a hotel overnight or make your own “B&B”
38. Go do temple work, try to get to all the temples in Utah
39. Go see the lights at temple square
40. Go sledding & Make snow angels
41. Go ice skating & make paper snowflakes
42. Make a snowman & have a snowball fight
43. Make cookies & write a letter for Santa
44. Make a gingerbread house together
45. Set up the Christmas tree. Listen to each others favorite Christmas music
46. Make a homemade ornament for every year you are married, depicting a big event that happened that year (i.e. 2012- Got married)
47. Go to a live nativity
48. Make hot chocolate & watch classic Christmas movies
49. Go caroling
50. Do 10+ hrs of volunteer work
51. Throw a Christmas party
52. Throw a New Years EVE Party
53. Grow a garden + make garden rocks
54. Go on an Easter Egg Hunt
55. Dye Easter Eggs
56. Spring Clean Together
57. Have a BBQ
58. Go Boating
59. Go see the fireworks, light sparklers, make a 4^th of July treat
60. Go to a water park (7 Peaks)
61. Have a water balloon + water gun fight
62. Go on a hike at Bridal Veil Falls, or hike the "Y"
63. Make homemade ice cream
64. Go to Lagoon
65. Go to the 4^th or 24^th of July Parade
66. Go to the mountains & have a picnic
67. Make a leaf collage
68. Rake & jump in a pile of leaves
69. Go to a corn maze
70. Make homemade caramel apples
71. Go get doughnuts and bob for apples
72. Throw a Halloween Party
73. Get costumes at the DI or make a costume for Halloween
74. Carve pumpkins
75. Go on a hay ride
76. Have a Harry Potter movie marathon + HP weekend (Go to the London or World Market to collect British treats to eat/drink during the movie. Have a British accent, and enjoy “tea”. Listen to the rain, read Harry Potter, watch British movies)
77. Have an IKEA day
78. Go to a concert
79. Go to the Ballet
80. Make a home movie
81. Go to a drive-in movie
82. Go to a dollar movie
83. Go to a play at a college or elementary school
84. Play laser tag
85. Go to a place that has bounce houses
86. Make pottery
87. Go fishing
88. Go Bowling (Try doing it different ways, like blindfolded or backwards)
89. Go on a bike ride and get ice cream
90. Teach each other a skill (DJ teaches about cars, or how to fix things, Taylor: How to cook, do laundry)
91. Go mini- golfing
92. Make a kite, and go fly it at a park. Roll down the hills & have a picnic
93. Go to Trafalga or a nicklecade and play arcade games
94. Go to the Dinosaur museum @ Thanksgiving Point  
    (Every Tuesday in August, all activities at Thanksgiving Point are $2)
    
95. Go to the Clark Planetarium (& Go star gazing)
96. Go the Provo or Orem library and get some new books. Read them together
97. Make treats for the firemen & visit a firehouse. Go to the Fire Fighter Museum
98. Go to the Pizza Pie Cafe, then go (window) shopping. 
99. Go to the church history museum 
     (http:www.lds.org/churchhistory/content/0,15757,3995-1-2127,00.html) 
    100. Go to the Eccles Community Art Center 
    101. Go to the Ft. Douglas War Museum 
    102. Go to the Pioneer memorial museum or the Donner Reed Museum 
    103. Take a tour of the Utah State Capital 
    104. Go to the Hill Air Force Base Museum 
    105. Go to the Farmers Market 
    106. Go to Silver Lake & have a picnic, go on the board walk 
    107. Go to the International Peace Gardens 
    108. Go to the Batting Cages 
    109. Go to Walmart and play the ABC-race game (each gets a shopping cart and fills it with 1 item from every letter of the alphabet. The first one to complete the task, wins)
    110. Go shooting or learn to use a bow & arrow