Clean up in aisle 3

So I have this AMAZING friend and her name is Tera, I met her through the Mid-Singles group there in Boise she is my wing girl and one of my most favorite people. We were talking one day and decided that the guys there just don't ask people on dates and it was up to us to start something. Our original idea was to do a progressive dinner...we would get a couple of other girls on board and have appetizers and one place, dinner at another, dessert at the next one and end at mine for games and other fun stuff. We kinda had it planned but we needed to find a good day to do it. She was getting ready to go to a boot camp for teachers and I had my cruise coming up. So we picked the first weekend in April and then we realized that it was Easter and Conference weekend. So we changed our plan to do a scavenger hunt after the Priesthood Session on Saturday night. 

While Tera was at her boot camp it was up to me and the other girls to finalize everything. We decided on a scavenger hunt at walmart, we had a list of things that each couple had to find and take pictures of. Then each of the teams had 5 dollars and had to buy a specific item to share after for the game we were going to play at Tera's house. The biggest surprise of this all was that we had no idea who our dates were going to be. We ended up inviting 4 guys that we thought were pretty cool, made envelopes with each of our names in one and they had to pick an envelope. Who ever they chose was their date for the night, which made it nice since it took off the pressure of "who do I ask out on a date and what if he says no!!" 

We told the guys which walmart to meet us at and what time, we were so very excited. On the way over there I kept thinking there are two guys that I would have a blast with tonight I hope I get one of them but there is a third guy who just rubs me the wrong way I really hope I don't get him...well guess what...I DID!!! I was kinda shocked  when he read my name but I was determined to make the best of it so let's call him BMW3.

We explained all the rules to every couple and off we went. It was so much fun, we didn't really have a strategy so we just went from the top of the list and worked our way down. He had to put a bra on so he got a pink bra and put it on his head, that picture is priceless!!! I had to put on boxers and so forth. We would occasionally see the other teams and just laugh and wave as we went by. Some of them we had to get creative with...one of them said to kiss in front of the fish. So we weren't going to kiss so we found two kissing frogs and held them up in front of the Flounder toy fish from Ariel and took the picture. It was so much fun running amuck in walmart as grownups! There were times that he complained about the scavenger hunt, didn't talk to me and other things but I tried to not let it bother me.

We were coming to the end of our list and we couldn't find any Mary Kate and Ashley stuff anywhere. So thankfully my sisters work at walmart and I knew that there was a kiosk in electronics that you can look stuff up on the walmart website if you couldn't find it in the store. So we ran back to electronics and typed it in and found TONS of Mary Kate and Ashley stuff so we took a pic of the screen and ran off to do the last thing...buy snacks for the games afterward. We bought our snacks and started calling people and we realized that we were the first ones done so WE WON!!! We were pretty excited about winning so we drove back to Tera's house and waited for everyone else to show up. Once they got there they were trying to say that we didn't win because some of our pics didn't follow the rules exactly BUT we were the only couple who didn't get approached and told off by management so I think that has to count for something!

Once everyone got there we ate ice cream and played battle of the sexes. It was hilarious...I think the boys cards were so much easier than our cards...we didn't know much about the guy things. So they ended up winning that. It was weird the whole time we were playing afterwards BMW3 was pretty cold to me. He didn't talk to me at all I didn't know what his deal was. Apparently everyone else was having a great time and noticed how he was acting. The very next day the girls called me and apologized for how he was acting towards me, they were determined to get to the bottom of it.

Then out of the blue BMW3 calls me to APOLOGIZE!!! I was pretty embarrassed that he called to apologize, I was just going to act like nothing happened. He said that it was a year ago that night that his wife did some pretty hurtful things that ended up on their divorce. I completely and totally understood. It seems like you can be chugging along doing great and then all of a sudden something happens that triggers a memory and can really affect how you feel. I told him I understood and that it was alright, he said that he really did have fun, thanked me for putting up with him and he hoped I didn't think he was a jerk.

All in all I think our planned group date was so much fun and I got to know other people pretty well and I DEFINITELY made some life long friends out of it. Now I wonder if we still want to have our progressive dinner...I guess we will just have to wait and see!