It was Stephen’s turn to plan our date for Friday night and it ended up being one of the funnest we’ve been on for a long time. I say ended up because at the beginning I was feeling self conscience and a little skeptical, but by the end I had thrown caution to the wind and just enjoyed it. Here’s how it went down:
Stephen was given a Starving Student card last week for free, the only catch is that it is going to expire at the end of this month. He noticed that there are several great “Free” items. So this leads us to what our date was all about – everything we did had to be free and on the card. Guess what? I noticed that I had the same card tucked away in my purse – so everything listed is x2. It felt like a Scavenger Hunt and I also felt like a little kid in a candy shop trying to cram everything down. We both decided to pace ourselves better after the first couple of stops and brought a bunch of stuff home for our kids – they thought it was great.
Our first stop was to Little Caesars for some FREE crazy bread. We ate a couple of them and then pressed on to The Twisted Pretzel and BRC. We each got a FREE caramel pretzel, very yummy and highly recommended. (I will confess we paid 30 cents more each to have it caramelized – but well worth the splurge) At BRC we got a frozen ice cream custard bar, again yum.
Next we drove to The Backyard. We got a FREE large fry and FREE raspberry cheesecake custard. The fries were drenched in a scary amount of grease but that custard was delicious. (We had to share these items because Stephen had already cashed in on these when he first received the card) Seriously the raspberry cheesecake custard was my favorite pic of the night! I’ll be going back again for that one.
After that we drove over to Gandolfos for our FREE lemon mousse cake. We couldn’t even tempt ourselves because we were getting stuffed. We decided to save that to share with the kids (along with our greasy fries and left over bread items). Oh speaking of bread items we got a FREE roll from the Lion House Pantry at Deseret Book.
We ended up the night with FREE chips and salsa from Bajio. (I’ll also confess that here we splurged to buy some queso dip for a $1. We both love it!)
We also went to Pic a Flic and picked up a couple of FREE movie rentals. Whew it was crazy night and lot of fun.
It felt like we were in college again, and fun for one night! I’m glad Stephen is fun to be with and makes my life happy. I seem to take life too seriously most of the time and he is the perfect antidote for that (most of the time). 🙂
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Comments:
Mom and Dad Parker said…
When you can have that much fun on a date with a time tested companion, it’s like winning the lottery, but better, because you can have that much joy and not worry about the money. We would love to double date with you guys anytime.
Monday, August 25, 2008 1:52:37 AM
michelle said…
I love that date! You guys are great! I love the rush of getting free stuff-good job!
Monday, August 25, 2008 12:38:53 PM
Jana said…
Way fun we did that too!! I think free runs deep in our blood and gets us Parkers going!!
Tuesday, August 26, 2008 9:57:34 AM