Park Hopping

Date Idea #2: "Go visit Fountain Place in downtown Dallas"

Have you ever explored downtown in your city? I used to think it was just a bunch of of

fice buildings and relatively boring. However, I was amazed to find out about all the sites there are to see in downtown areas. Dave and I are very fortunate to live smack dab in the middle of two big ones- Dallas and Fort Worth. This particular date idea pointed us to Dallas.

I got this idea when I typed into Google, "Free things to do in Dallas, TX". 123432 results popped up. I ended up sifting

through them for a couple hours and found quite a few good ones. I suggest doing the same for your hometown, but just be warned-

look carefully at the ideas you find online, a lot of them are not actually free. And you don't want to spend time planning a free date only to get there and

find out it has a $15 entrance fee. Now, back to our downtown date:

Fountain Place is actually an office building that happens to have a beautiful scene surrounding it. There

are fountains of water with trees planted right in the middle. There are tables where you can sit, have lunch,

and just relax amongst the waterfalls. Dave and I had brought food for a picnic (saves you from spending money eating out), but it was far too cold to eat outside. So we had our picnic in our car. You may call us lame, but we were significantly warmer and happier in there.

The one downer to Fountain

Place is that it only takes a few minutes to explore. However, we spotted a downtown directory and located a couple of other parks we wanted to

visit. We call this park hopping. One of the parks had gigantic Christmas ornaments that we had fun posing with.

But our best find was definitely the last park we went to. It reminded me of Central Park in NYC. Beautiful landscape, with lots of trees, hills, and stone architecture. There was

one hill where you climb stone steps to the top. When you reach the top, there are chairs, tables, and even a well made of stone. Dave and I had a lot of fun pretending to be king and queen of that realm. It was an amazing find, we never would have guessed anything like that existed in downtown Dallas. So check out your downtown area- you might be surprised at what you find too!

UPDATE ON MY NEW YEARS RESOLUTION: An unanticipated event occurred. My husband is leaving on business for the next 3 months. 3 months=12 dates. He leaves in 2 weeks. So in order to make up for the time that he's gone, our goal is to go on as many dates as we can before he leaves. This is really easy for us to do right now, since I'm not in school and super busy yet. So, can we fit 12 dates into two weeks? We'll find out soon!!