8 Great Dates to go on with Your Girl Friends

If you have a couple of close girl friends, you probably find that you get in to dating ruts with them, much like your romantic partners. How often do we stick to lunch with our girl friends, drinks with our girl friends, or shopping with our girl friends?  There’s even a television series dedicated to the practice… Sex and the City.

Like all relationships, we can get in to a stalemate with our girl friends.  Maybe we’re tired of trekking around the mall, eating at the same restaurants, or want to cut down on your alcohol intake.  (It could happen!)  We need new misadventures and stories to spice up our lives, especially as we’re starting to get older.

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8 Great Dates to go on with Your Girl Friends

• Skip the manis and pedis and hit up a fabulous make-up shop (or glamorous girly shop like Fifi Mahoney’s!) and walk out with glittery eyes and faux lashes.
• Pack a Spring or Summer picnic, play croquet, eat petit fours, fried chicken, and festive salads, and drink iced tea and lemonade (spiked, of course).
• Dress up in your finest shoes and skirts and head to the local art museum for an after-hours tour, lecture, & cocktail reception. Learn more about sculpture, native pottery, or women artist’s with your favorite ladies!
• Fancy dancing, without guys grinding on you, overpriced drinks, or having to dress up?  Find your local Zumba class, Dance Dance Party Party, or a hula hooping group! Dance, laugh, shimmy, and shake, without judgment and reservations.
• Hit up a burlesque performance; in the process, learn to admire and appreciate your own bodies and your best ladies’ bods, too.
• Become season subscribers to the local theater, dance company, or opera company.  Make a standing date for each show, and all special subscriber only events.
• Don wigs, great costumes, and hit up your town’s tourist nightspots.  Be specatular, shining, and abnormal.  Pose for pictures with the tourists and know you’re making their trip extraordinary.
• Throw a slumber party! Release your inner 13 year olds: paint your nails, color your hair, eat lots of popcorn, pizza, and oreos.  Bring out the board games like like Mall Madness, Blind Date, (cheater’s) Monopoly, or Twister (for a great workout)!  Make mimosas and poinsettias, watch your favorite films from middle school and high school (or your favorite chick flicks and horror flicks!).  Crank call your lovers.  Have a shopping trip to Target to get matching pajama sets.  Cook a big brunch the next morning– chocolate chip & M&M pancakes, juice, coffee, cinnamon buns.

How about you, bijoux? How do you like to take your ordinary dates with your girl friends and make them extraordinary?