170) Pack a picnic lunch and eat it in the park.
171) Take a walk down the main street of your town or city.
172) Spend a day at the beach.
173) Drive to a nice hotel for the night.
174) Camp out in the backyard in the summer.
175) Have a movie marathon: rent several movies with a “theme” and make popcorn.
176) Draw a bath and have a soapy indoor date!
177) Have an Italian themed dinner in your home. Order pizza or make spaghetti, play romantic Italian music and serve a nice red wine.
178) Go on a hot-air balloon ride.
179) Take a weekend in the country.
180) Have a Japanese dinner theme night. Buy some paper lanterns, make a seating area on the floor and serve sushi and sake.
181) Plan a romantic dinner, then go shopping. It can actually be fun and quite romantic if you do it together!
182) Get dressed up and go dancing—the old-fashioned kind of dancing!
183) If you live near a body of water, go on a boat ride.
184) Park the car in a darkened lot and act like teenagers again!
185) Go to the top of a tall building and look out and enjoy the view together.
186) Take a short train ride to one of the surrounding towns and explore it together.
187) Go to an open-air food market and taste the delicacies together.
188) If you’re both athletic, plan a bike ride through scenic countryside.
189) Go to a local amusement park and act like kids again—eat cotton candy, play arcade games, and scream on the roller coasters.
190) Go to an art museum and hold hands as you stroll through the galleries.
191) Get in the car and drive for an hour in any direction, without consulting a map. Then, wherever you end up, get out and explore.
192) Go to a baseball game and cheer loudly for your favorite team.
193) Buy tickets to see her favorite musician in concert.
194) See if your local coffee house has any musical events, and stop by after dinner one night.
195) Go to the park and play Frisbee or catch.
196) Rent a limo and take a romantic tour en route to dinner—or just drive around for an hour!
197) If you or she has a dog, go for a long, romantic walk with Fido.
198) When the circus comes to town, take advantage of it. It will be a night to remember, and you’ll both be energized when you get home!
199) Go to a beach—at night!
200) Go to a retro soda-hop joint and enjoy milkshakes and old-fashioned burgers.
201) “Kidnap” your lover as she is leaving work and whisk her off for the night or weekend. Make sure to have some of her clothes and personal things packed so she doesn’t need to go home first.
202) Go to a kiddie establishment (like an arcade, a low-key pizza parlor or Chuck E. Cheese) and enjoy the fun and silly atmosphere.
203) Take a romantic horse and carriage ride, and bring a bottle of champagne to open during the ride.
204) Go miniature golfing. It’s fun and low-key, so you’ll both laugh a lot, and that’s a big
205) If you’re both interested in real estate, or if you’re thinking about buying a house in the near future, go to open houses together.
206) Take your lover to a beautiful flower shop and tell her to pick out whatever she wants.
207) After it rains and the sun comes out, take your lover outside and tell her to help you find a rainbow.
208) Get your camera out and spend the day taking pictures of the two of you kissing in various locations.
209) Go to a pet store and either play with the cuddly creatures or even bring one home!
210) Gather up some old bread and go to the duck pond to feed the birds.
211) Sit outside and watch the sun go down.
212) Visit your lover’s childhood home and town.
213) Go apple-picking and make your own cider together.
214) Sing your favorite romantic songs to each other at a karaoke bar.
215) Volunteer at a soup kitchen or homeless shelter together.
216) Ask her to be your date to your best friend’s wedding.
217) Decorate your Christmas tree together, or put up decorations for any other holiday—Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, New Year’s Eve, even Halloween!
218) Read the Sunday newspaper together in your pajamas and over two cups of coffee, and do the crossword puzzle.
219) Build a roaring fire and watch it together.