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I like to do something new together - something neither of us have ever done. This brings us closer together and creates a new experience that we can only share with one another. Taking a cooking class or learning to rock climb, kayak or something adventurous and new adds a whole element of fresh sparks to the relationship!

We like to leave the kids and go for a really cheap Sunday afternoon date. WE drive around our favorite neighborhoods talking about what houses we would love if we had the money. Then we go to a few open houses just to get ideas and see inside.

have a lunch in the middle of vineyard!! after of cource some wine tastings:)

One of my husbands and my favorite date nights is buying a bottle of wine (for me) and a cigar (for him) and sitting on our back porch after our daughter is in bed. We leave phones and computers in the house and sit under the stars and talk. It's a great time to reconnect. :)

(works best in or near a bigger city) Find a neat local place that attracts many different people... a historic landmark, beautiful park, statue, water fountain, lake... especially where families, friends, and wedding parties might gather for pictures. take some snacks, lay down on the grass, and people watch. People are fun, especially when ones from all different backgrounds and cultures are all in one place for a common reason. it gives the couple alot of sharing time too. as you're people watching, it brings up alot of neat things to talk about.

Nothing better than cooking dinner together. I usually start with simmering homemade pasta sauce for an hour or so and cooking the pasta. Hubby helps with the salad and drinks and watches the bread toasting in the oven while I phone Grandma to check on the kids. Then we carry our plates to the living room and eat by the fireplace.

My husband and I did the Dinner - Dance Cruise in Newport. It's for approx. 4 hours, you have dinner and dancing on this beutiful boat with intimate lighting making it the most romantic atmosphere. The dinner is delicious, served with wine and gives you time to see each other in another light, than "Mommy and Daddy" (if that applies to you.) We have 4 children, and you have to create the romance by doing suprising things to keep the spark alive :)

My perfect date would be sitting on our patio with a margaretta, grilling out, just talking about our week, then eating by candlelite. Then a good comedy movie to end the day out!

Eating out and shopping is our favorite date night.

I would love to beable to just do something spontanious like boarding a plane and just going some place that I haven't been to before. I don't want any planning involved, just do it. Wouldn't it be so awesome to have your own plane so you could just go to Paris on a whim? I would enjoy a train ride more I think. With a dinning car and just get going down the tracks, see the country side. Yes, I think I would like that. Something out of the ordinary. I thought of a balloon ride, also, that would be so romantic. I suppose I would prefer the train. That seems to be more my style. Of course it would take longer than a night. That's normal for my husband and myself. Date nights usually have been weekends long.

I would make arrangements to take a sunrise hot air ballon ride complete with breakfast.

A day with not kids, chores, email, work, or phone disruptions would be awesome. If we could ever acheive that it wouldn't matter what we did as long as we were enjoying each other.

Me and my husband love to go get PF. Changs takeout and go to the park and eat and make-out under the stars. So romantic!!!

My husband and I enjoying spending a night making candles.

One of our favorite things to do is turn a date into a mini-vacation. We take turns picking a country/region and the whole date revolves around the choice. We've picked Germany and found a lovely authentic German restaurant for dinner. Prior to dinner we found some small German stores in an outlying community and enjoyed browsing clocks, chocolate, and other German fair. We've done the same thing with Russia, Mexico, France, Greece, and Italy. We do everything we can to surround ourselves in the country we chose to make it feel that we're really there. It's been a lot of fun and exposed us to places we wouldn't normally visit and food we wouldn't normally try. The secret is to find the most authentic places possible.