One Of The Best First Dates Ever

In my last post, I talked about double dating and some things I've learned in my time double dating with my fiance Easy. I gave some tips and talked about a date we had earlier today. I mentioned I was hoping we'd go rock climbing.

After I got home Saturday morning, I knew I'd only have a few hours of sleep before it was time to get up and get ready for the date. And knowing Easy's friend's girlfriend had gone rock climbing four times this week, I pretty quickly gave up on the idea.

Easy woke me up and we got ready to go. We were running behind schedule, as usual, but we got there in due time. We got there and they had a great date planned for us. Since they asked us out, in true first date fashion, they planned the date. We were to go to this fantastic sushi restaurant with some of the best sushi any of us have ever tasted and then we were going to the Riverwalk Fine Art Fair.

Image via Naperville Art League

A sign that a first date will go well is the ability to roll with the punches. When we got to the sushi restaurant, they told us they didn't open until 4:30 pm. That was still at least 90 min away I think, so we had to go waste some time. Finding parking wasn't easy, so we decided to forgo the Fair and just get ice cream cause Easy and I really wanted a snack.

We went back to the sushi restaurant. And it was absolutely amazing! Seriously some of the best sushi I've ever had. Easy doesn't even like sushi, but he was trying it. If it had just had a bit less avocado in everything, I think he would've really been happy.

Image via Sushi Haccp

Another good sign of a great first date is when you talk about things you probably shouldn't be talking about on a first date. For a couples' date, that means exes. We talked, more than once, about Easy's ex and his friend's girlfriend's ex. They all went to college together and I've met Easy's ex, which reminds me of a funny random story, but that's for another post.

After we had late lunch, we all wanted dessert. But we were running out of time and I had to get to work. Yet another sign your date is going well is that you find ways to keep spending time together even though you have every excuse in the world to cut the time short. We decided that we would go back to Häagen-Dazs® and get more ice cream and then our dates would drive me to work since it was only a 20 min drive from where they lived.

Image via Food and Drink Blog

We all got ice cream and high tailed it back to the car. We got on the road and laughed and joked on the way to my job like we'd been doing the whole day. Easy was going with them back to their place so he and his friend could play video games. I was so thankful they drove me to work since they saved me from being too late and we got to spend more time together.

I know the date went well because we never ran out of things to talk about. We could have gone default to the guys discussing college and music and education (they're both jazz musicians who attended the same college and both teach music at the elementary school level) and the girls discussing wedding invitations, but that was only a small part of the day's discussions.

As far as first dates go, this was one of the best. I really didn't think that once I found myself all settled down, ready to only be with one person, that I'd still be in the dating game. I actually find it kind of amusing. I'm looking forward to our second date. They know of this great chocolate cafe we simple have to go to. I guess for our third date, it'll be time to cook them dinner at our place.

I don't wanna get ahead of myself. But I'd like to fast forward to like 5 years from now when both of us couples are living in Europe. Easy and I will be in London and they'll be in Spain. It would be fun to go on holiday and meet in Venice or something.

Image via Destination 360

Yeah, it was definitely a great first date if I'm planing out our long futures together.