Boys/Blind Dates

Boys make me smile...sometimes.

Oh my goodness. What a week. I haven't been on a date since the beginning of May, but this week I had 2 dates. TWO dates. So Emily gave my number out to this lady to have her son ask me out (and I wanted to kill her). I didn't think he would actually call though. But he did. Then I was getting nervous b/c it's been so long since I've been on a date that I wasn't sure what I was supposed to do. So Spencer offered to take me on a "practice date". So Tuesday night I went out to dinner with Spencer. And I was expecting it to be a little mock date, but it was actually a really nice date, and I really enjoyed getting to know him better. It was really good. Then last night was my blind date with this boy named Stephen. I was super nervous b/c he's super cute, and I thought he was way out of my league and that I would just feel really out of place. But it wasn't like that at all. He was really super nice. We went to dinner, and that was alright. I didn't talk much there b/c he and his old mission companion just talked about the mission the whole time, which is alright b/c he just got home. When that's been your whole life for the last 2 years, you don't really have much else to talk about. But then we went country swing dancing and that was soooo fun. His buddy opted out of coming w/ us b/c he didn't know how to dance and he didn't want to be embarrassed in front of his lady friend. So it was just Steve and I. And he was a really, really good dancer and also a really really good teacher, and was super nice and patient with me. He taught me lots of different moves in lots of different genres of dance, and once I got them down we started improving on them. I realized halfway through that he was just making a lot of it up as he went, so then I loosened up and just had fun with it too. I just followed and we made it all up as we went. By the end we were just going to town all over the dance floor. It was sooooooo fun. I forgot how fun dating is. And as much as I really do love my friends it was a good experience to branch out from the same 10 guys and be around someone new blood.