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December 5: DATE NIGHT!!! Oh boy! This is an important holiday tradition. We've gotten used to thinking about dates being big and massive things. They can be just sweet little interludes, with time out for chatting, hand-holding and kissing. Dates can be stuck in the midst of errands. You just need to make them special and set them off. Put a parentheses around a moment in life, dedicate it to your romance, and call it wonderful. You have to be deliberate about it. You can't just grab a Starbucks and sit there talking about everything you were talking about in the car. You have to talk about things that are about you. Admiringly. Wedding Priestess is only slowly beginning to understand that dates aren't the time to berate your Sweetest for forgetting to handle something that was on his or her list. (Huh! Who knew? Now we both do, you can learn from this!)
Nope, dates are about romance. Here's my suggestion for this weekend's fun date: Hot Chocolate. Go get yourself a wonderful cup of decadence, hold hands with your beloved, stare into one another's eyes. Giggle a little. Enjoy being with one another. Concentrate on the fact that you are the luckiest person in the world to have fallen in love with this marvelous person and let your gaze and your smile tell your sweetie so. The weather outside is going to be frightful. So walk a bit before you get there so you're cold and really wanting something warm to drink.
Just go for chocolate. Don't spend a lot of money. Just have one perfect, half-hour date. Don't talk about wedding planning or gift buying. Talk about something fun you've done together. If you veer off topic, just bring it back.
I did some preliminary research about the best hot chocolate in Philadelphia. Here's what google had to say. Notice that if you want to do the Ritz, you have to wait until tomorrow when the sommelier is in. (Don't you love that: hot chocolate sommelier!) You might want to make a reservation. You're just doing a little something, not a dinner, so you don't want to spoil your experience by an argument with a restauranteur!
- Naked Chocolate Café
- Ritz Carlton City Center: Wednesday and Saturdays from 11-4
- RIM Café Philadelphia Magazine's best of 2007!
Go do your research, figure out what you're most willing to try and go have a wonderful date. Let WP and her readers know if we're missing something wonderful along the way!
One more way to move from "I do" to happily and healthily ever after.
(And remember, I need your help to keep this column current and interesting. Write to me with ideas to explore. Put The Wedding Priestess in the subject line.)
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