Date 28 - The Almighty Dollar!

Date: 2/25/12
Type: Creative, Casual, Funny, Fun
Cost: $
Planned By: Adam

What can you buy with a dollar? Not too much, but you will be surprised what Adam came up with for our dollar themed date night!! Now people you may think you can't afford a nice date, but you all can afford this! OK, the other person may call you a cheap skate, but it is a very creative and really fun date. You don't need to spend tons of money as long as your with the person you love a dollar is enough. I bet my bottom dollar you and your date will remember this night.

We started out at the Dollar Tree. We each got to buy one fun thing for $1 a piece. We saw lots of silly stuff, but Adam quickly found a 350 piece puzzle of New York City that he wanted. It took me a while, but I decided to get a blowing bubbles set. We checked out and moved on to dinner.


We had to pick a restaurant with a dollar menu. Adam chose Taco Bell. Not exactly a dollar menu, but they have a value menu with a bunch of dollar or less items. We got a bunch of tacos, nachos and a drink. Yumm... we love taco bell!

Next, we had some fun at Giant Eagle. First, we both bought a couple of $1 lottery scratch off cards. Then we have a fun competition in the candy aisle. We each got a bag and whoever was the closest to 1/4 of a pound or $1 worth of candy won a kiss. We were both under, but I was almost at exactly 1/4 of a pound. I won!!

We went to the dollar theater in Willoughby Hills next. We decided to see The Muppets. The dollar theater is actually $2.00 for the night movies, but close enough. We didn't get any popcorn or pop because those prices were normal. While waiting for our movie we scratched off our lottery tickets. I won a dollar! The movie was really cute and funny. We are both fans of the muppets, and also the main human actors Jason Segal and Amy Adams. The music and plot made the movie really great, and we recommend it. Also they just won an Oscar for best original song; Man or Muppet, which I think deserved it. The rest of the audience in our theater was pretty obnoxious. Mostly children who couldn't sit still or shut up, but that's OK because it was cheap and the movie was good.

Our last stop was at McDonalds for a $1 fudge sundae dessert. It was delicious!

This date was a lot of fun. We had a great time being frugal together. The entire date cost less than $20! If you don't have $20 then you could always take a couple things out.. and if you have more than $20 you can add some things in!

Ratings:
Dollar Tree: 10/10 - had tons of stuff to choose from and everything is a dollar!
Taco Bell: 9/10 - they could have cheaper drinks.
Lottery Tickets: 5/10 - fun to play but we only won $1
Candy Competition: 10/10 - super fun and we got to keep the candy! :)
Dollar Theater: 6/10 - snacks should be a dollar, too!
The Muppets: 9/10 - really cute, could have had a little more adult humor.
McDonalds Fudge Sundae: 10/10 - ice cream and fudge... how could that go wrong. :)

Date 27 - It's A Mystery To Me.

Date: Saturday, February 18, 2012
Type: Group, Out-On-The-Town
Cost: $$$
Planned By: Friends

A couple friends from OU invited us to go out downtown with them. They wanted to go to a murder mystery dinner theater at Pickwick and Frolic. We have been wanting to go to one of these for a while so we jumped at the opportunity. We were also excited to see our friends, Jen & John, since we hadn't seen them in a pretty long time.

We started the date by meeting them at the Clevelander for a pre-show drink. It was nice catching up with them and talking about how excited we were for the show. We all walked in the cold a couple blocks to Pickwick and Frolic. I should have worn pants it was way to cold for a dress.

We all pre-order our tickets so we went to the box office to pick them up. Then went downstairs to the show/dinner area. This place was so much bigger than it looks from outside and really nice. We got seated right in front of the stage. Everyone gets a three course meal with their ticket so the salad was waiting for us when we arrived. It was just a regular house salad, but it already had the dressing on it. Adam doesn't use dressing on his salad, but he dealt with it.

Before the show started some of the characters walked around asking people to sing karaoke. Jen and I volunteered to do a duet and we sang You're The One That I Want from Grease. I would have to say we were amazing. Probably the best performance of the night.

The theme of the murder mystery was psych ward. There was a doctor, nurse and three patients. They were "celebrities" and all had different reasons for being there. One was a sex addict, one had anger problems, and I think one was suicidal. The show was a musical and all of the songs were from Billy Joel. It was a really funny show and the singing was great.

During the first intermission we had the entree. All four of us had a different dinner. I had Chicken Marsala and Adam had the Prime Rib. Both came with mixed vegetables and mashed potatoes. The food was really good. I enjoyed every bite. During the second intermission we got cheesecake for dessert and as a table had to decide who we thought committed the murder. The table with the correct answer and most information won 4 tickets per person to Hilarities Comedy Club. Our table got the correct person, but apparently didn't put enough information. Oh well. I won't give it away just in case if any of you go see the show.

After the show we walked through the Arcade to get to our cars faster. There was a wedding reception going on downstairs. We looked down and saw a big blown up Rufus the OU Bobcat. We were so excited since we all went to OU and made sure to get a picture with it.

It was a really nice night downtown. We got yummy food, great entertainment, and had an overall fun time with our friends!

Clevelander: 7/10 - normal bar, expensive well drinks.
Pickwick and Frolic Dinner: 8/10 - 3 good courses and a wide variety of drinks
Pickwick and Frolic Murder Mystery Show: 10/10 - I definitely recommend going to a show at Pickwick and Frolic for anyone in the Cleveland area. It was pretty expensive but worth the price.