dating on a budget ( Archived) (19)

ok gentlemen, it's saturday night and you are planning a date with your loved one... you are only allowed to spend 10.00 on the date...

be creative, and plan a romantic night.... looking for guys that are romantic and creative.... so your chance to shine here

what would you do?

i know you said gentlemen but i have done this before


get some sandwiches go to a park moonlight

Cajun, that goes without saying ... I know we can do it

hahah i've done it a lot too... done special nights, renting a movie and making popcorn and cuddling under a blanket on the couch...

$10.00 is about 15 Swiss Francs .. ok ... here we go.

Well, it just so happens that tonight there is a firework display by the river. It starts at 830

So, I have an inflatable boat in the garage. So for 3.20 Francs we catch the tram to the airport. I have already packed the picnic, and the wine. (it was in the fridge already - be a shame to waste it)

So, you carry the picnic, and I carry the boat on the tram (uninflated at the moment) Then when we get to the airport stop it is a small walk to the river. There just so happens to be a little man with a compressor who will inflate the boat for 5 Francs. (This is a regular thing around here, floating down the river)

So, now we get into the boat. It is about 7, so in an hour it will be dark and it should take us about an hour to float down the river in our boat.

We tie the wine to a piece of string, and dangle it over the back of the boat to chill the wine.

Fortunately in the picnic is my iPod and a pair of little speakers. So some music, and just relax and enjoy the ride down the river.

You may need to paddle a little bit as there are turns in the river and we dont want to ground out.

It is still 19degC so t-shirts and shorts are the order of the day.

Then about an hour in, the wine is opened. Fortuantely I have a corkscrew. Its on my Swiss Army knife!

So, wine. I bought some freshly baked bread and some swiss cheese, and we sit eating, paddling and slurping!

Its now getting dark and there is still enough light from the river banks to see where we are going.

Its about time and we can see the start of the firework display. Perfect timing as we round the last bend to find our tie-up place.
9pm, sitting in a rubber boat on the river Aare looking at a free firework display.

Can I just comment here without being tought of as critical?

The cuddling on the couch sounds nice at times, but guys use those words in their profiles so often that it starts to sound like an eternal $10.00 limit to what they like to spend on a date.

There are so many things to do that don't cost money and can be done somewhere other than a couch

that sounds wonderful

wow.. that would be a beautiful night

Ten bucks, huh? Well, gees, lol. Um, I would go and talk to the restaurant owner and try to work out a deal of washing dishes. If that didn't work, I have wrote hot checks before. Hmmm, hot checks for a hot chick, lol. Um, We could go raid your refrigerator unless it is like mine, lol. Um, We could get some bait and catch dinner. Hey, I think Laurie's idea is easier, lol.

Pop corn isn't that expensive.