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Quarantine Date Night: Craft Cocktails

Get Gone and Travel - Aaron and Tey - Craft Cocktails - Date Night Idea

So. We’re stuck in quarantine and may or may not be running out of new and exciting things to do - on the bright side, we’ve tried quite a few new things that we’ve dubbed amazing and we’re going to share each and every single one of those ideas with you here.

First up! Craft Cocktail night. Now this one isn’t new to us, but you can never go wrong with a night of playing your own bartender.

What You’ll Need:

  • Ingredients according to which cocktail (or cocktails, no judgement) you opt in for

  • Spotify, because… Music is always bae and plus we made you a playlist, you’re welcome

    Want to get fancy? You can score this amazing cocktail kit from amazon, it’s similar to the one we have so we can be #twinsies

  • Our list of Qs

How Much Time We’re Talking:

15 min. Max to prep your sips

+ 30 min. to play our game

What to Do:

  1. Click PLAY on this playlist

  2. Select your choice of cocktail from this list

    1. Madras Trios (Vodka Based)

    2. Monkey Jam Sour (Whiskey Based)

    3. Tropical Heavy Lifters Only (Rum Based)

  3. Gather your ingredients

  4. Whip up your ‘tail

  5. Sip + Enjoy

  6. (bonus) Play Our Q’s


Cocktail #1

Cocktail Recipe - Get Gone - in blog - Madras Trios

Cocktail #2

Cocktail Recipe Template - Monkey Jam Sour.png

Cocktail #3

Cocktail Recipe - Tropical Heavy Lifters - Get Gone

Do You Trust Me?

Kitchen-Date Night - Date Idea

Trust, trust, trust - you always hear that this is one of the most important factors in any relationship and we couldn’t agree more. But let’s be honest, how many of us actually know a FUN way to build trust? This time around, we’re going to spruce things up. No serious conversation, no trust falls (thank GOD), and no trust walks.

This time, we’re getting kinky and dirty (in the kitchen).

Here’s what you’ll Need:

The concept is simple, one partner will be the trustee and the other will be the trusted and it is the Trusteds job to provide adequate, proper, precise and sometime silly guide and direction for baking the pie. Not sure how to designate who’s filling which role? Ro-Sham-Bo to find out who will be blindfolded!

Once your partner is blindfolded, the challenge begins - to shave some time, you can opt to have some, most or all materials needed ready and available on the counter before you begin. Otherwise, it could take 30 minutes to dig through the pantry and cabinets for all the ingredients, mixing bowls, blender, utensils, etc. True test of patience, yafeelme?

Here’s the Pie Recipe we used: Cinnamon Crumble Apple Pie

Pro Tip: Most pies take about an hour to cook (some of the recipes we found even requested for a 2+ HOUR baking time… like, what in all the world? Who’s got time for that!?) Anyway, you’ll end up having some down time while you’re waiting for the pie to bake. What you do with this time is completely up to you. Get as creative and fun (or wild) as you’d like. We’re recommending a SFW option: our favorite board game and our favorite card game

Not feeling that adventurous or short on time? You can always make a homemade pizza instead or truly anything your little heart desires. HIGHLY recommend you avoid any and all recipes that require cutting, 'cause ya know, safety concerns. Also, we like it better when we cook something nothing of us have ever made before.

Date Night: Nerf Gun Battle

Cost: >$30
Prep Time: 2 Min.
Location: In-House

Get Gone and Travel - Aaron and Tey - Nerf Gun Battle - Date Night Idea

We are always trying to keep things fun and lively to break up the day-to-day mundane things so we commit to weekly date nights. However, we don’t always wait for the weekend/commit to a Saturday date night. Routine can be annoying and boring… SO! we highly encourage you to select a random day during the week to bring this date night to life.

What went down:

We had a Nerf gun battle in the house for our anniversary date - Aaron had ZERO idea and was NOT ready for what was coming his way. Check out our highlight here to see who won.

This “date” was SO. MUCH. FUN. - we ended up playing so intensely that we were both sweating and out of breath. It was also a win because now that we have the materials, we can have a Nerf gun battle whenever our little hearts desire.

What you’ll need:

This Nerf Gun

-or-

This Nerf Gun

Elite Nerf Bullets

Print this Sign

What to do:

  1. Send a text warning [example below] -and/or- hide before your partner comes home and leave the sign either on your door or somewhere you know they’ll see it upon arrival.

  2. You can either give your partner time to get ready or spring a surprise attack on them, like me. If ya ain’t cheatin, you ain’t tryin ;)

  3. Set rules if you want, highly advice you claim “no headshots”. Those guns are tiny but MIGHTY. If you checked our stories, you know what I mean.

  4. Battle until you can’t battle anymore or until one of you wave the white flag

Super simple, but we promise you, you guys will have so much fun and will belly laugh until you can’t breathe.

Show us pics of your Nerfbattle using: #getgonedatenight