Walk This Way

Walk This Way

http://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/spotts-park-houston?select=r2QJccWOSOlOZh_QbXrl-g

What’s a little nature without a little city? We live in Houston after all. Spotts Park is the perfect blend. Trees and grasses as far as the eye can see with a wonderful metropolitan backdrop. From the north entrance of the park there is a paved walking trail that measures one mile in distance.

You and you sweetie can lace us your tennis and “walk this way”. Take your iPod/MP3/etc with you for your r&r.

http://www.visithoustontexas.com/listings/Spotts-Park/20265/

Use some free time prior to the date and make a playlist for you sweetie. While you both are strolling Spotts Park holding hands listen to the mix your sweetie has made just for you. Music can express emotion without vocalizing. Music can take you back to your first dance as husband and wife. Music is a powerful tool use it for love.

Printing Press Pitter Patters

Printing Press Pitter Patters

http://printingmuseum.org

The Printing Museum is one of Houston’s hidden gems. This museum does charge an admission fee most days but offers one free day a month. [Please call museum for specifics (713) 522-4652] Walk and talk your way through this historic piece of Texas.

The museum is open Tuesday - Saturday from 10am - 5:00pm. The landmark also offers family style education classes if, its something you like and want to bring the kiddos back to explore. The gift shop has a wide array of stationary that can help with this week’s r&r but is not required.

http://printingmuseum.org

Relationship Reconnection:

You guessed it a hand written, non-typed, non-emailed, love letter. Take your partner back to the good old days where everyone hand-wrote cards to express what they couldn’t say in person.

Love letter are special due to their tangibility and nostalgia. You can read and reread as many times as you like without having to fire-up the gmail account.

Putting pen to paper gets the thoughts flowing. To make this a little more fun mail it to each other, if you both work mail it to your office’s, or even mail it back to your own house the time it takes to will bring an element of surprise to the letter. 

I Choo-Choo-Choose You

I Choo-Choo-Choose You

Photo by Priscilla Dickson

http://www.hermannpark.org/visit/train-pedal-boats/

Why isn’t it Spring already? Unless you’re reading this post in Spring then, YAY SPRING! Hermann Park Conservatory has an amazing array of color in spring. Flowers and scents one can only dream of.   If you are going on a date, especailly in the spring, ride the choo-choo-train.

The train runs Mon. - Sun. 10am - 6pm. $3.25 per person and can be purchased at the Hermann Park Gift Shop. It’s a total steal! The entire ride is 18 minutes long and treks across 2 miles of Herman Park.

http://www.hermannpark.org/visit/train-pedal-boats/

While you’re on you 18-minute nostalgic train ride talk about child-like things. Does your spouse know what you wanted to be when you were 5 or 6? What was your favorite toy? Imaginary friends? Since the train isn’t very private keep the conversation light! Have children? Do you see any similarities between how you were at their age and how they are now?

Gardening your Love

Gardening your Love

 

http://houstonarboretum.org

This lush 155-acre garden has 5 miles in nature trails and is free to get in. Along side the majority of these trails are beautiful flowers, some wildflowers, some pruned to perfection.

Date night or date afternoon can be enjoyed walking or hiking through Houston’s most beautiful cultivated lands.

http://houstonarboretum.org

https://www.facebook.com/HoustonArboretum

For this reconnection dig deeper than the “our love is like a flower” … if your love is the flower, what is the soil that grounds you and keeps your deeper roots safe? What is your water? What keeps you and your partner’s love from drying up and eventually dying? What is your sun? What provides warmth and growth without ever really being a tangible element? We often bypass or don’t acknowledge what is keeping our relationship alive because like the air we breathe we take it for granted. Lets bring it to consciousness and appreciate how our partner creates elements that sustain and grow our love.

Boo on the Bayou

Boo on the Bayou

http://buffalobayou.org/visit/destination/buffalo-bayou-park/

Under the Buffalo Bayou Project, $58 million dollars is being used to renovate different areas of the 160-acre park. Just 15 minutes west of downtown Houston, is the perfect place to hike-it-up with your boo. It has beautifully renovated bridges, hiking, biking, and walking trails. The park is dog friendly so if you decide to invite mans-best-friend on your journey know he/she is welcome. Unlike the park, the hiking trail is not lighted at night, so for safety purposes make sure to make this a daytime date.

Grab a water bottle, granola bar, and get started!

http://buffalobayou.org/visit/destination/buffalo-bayou-park/

Hiking is an exercise that tests your balance. Experience hikers often have a better sense of balance. What brings balance into your relationship? Are there any current imbalances that are bothering you? How can you bring balance back into your relationship? When you and your boo get to the top of the bayou talk about these balances or lack there of!