first dates

First dates can be awkward. Second dates can also be awkward. How can one minimize this lack of comfort? With planning. If the entire date does not have empty moments, then that awkward physical tension will not be there. Also, movie dates can give off tension vibes. That's why an adventure is your best bet or a place where you can just talk and not worry about losing your personal bubble. 


What would I like to do for a first date? Ideally I would love to do something new and different but if it is a "blind" date I would want to be in a public safe area which might minimize the adventurous aspect of the date. I want to be able to look back and remember you, not as just another dinner and a movie date but as the "archery and roasted marshmallows" guy, or the "volleyball and ice-cream on the beach" guy. I want to be able to tell people that we met "at the Gravitron at the fair" or that for our first date we went geocaching at the Ringling Rose Garden. 

I also had this ridiculous idea that since it is kind of a blind date that we would do an activity blindfolded. I don't imagine it to be bowling but perhaps dinner? This could totally work at a more casual restaurant. You put the blindfold on before you enter and ask the waiter to seat you (literally guide you to your chair). You would have some code worked out to make sure you get seated with the correct person (probably one of you arrives 5 minutes before the other and waits seated with a blindfold and you tell the host/hostess to seat you with the man/woman with the blindfold on). It would have to be a new place for both parties, so neither could cheat on knowing the menu in advance.

What creative date can you come up with?