Choose your own adventure day.

by Curtis Humphreys
(Adelaide, South Australia)

Hi guys, Just wanted to share with you an idea i had (and played out) with my then fiancee (now wife).

It worked perfectly and she really loved it.

This wasn't for any special occasion, just a treat but you could of course use this for ANY occasion. (but you get bonus points for doing stuff for no occasion, remember that)

Firstly i picked out a bunch of places that i thought my wife may like to visit for the following:
*Breakfast
*Beach
*Lunch
*Shopping
*Tea

So i picked out two locations for each of the above. From there i wrote a little story from the time i picked her up through all of the above locations in a "Choose your own adventure book" style. For example.

"After our beloved couple had finished there swim Jo turned to Curtis and said "I'm getting a bit hungry, where do you want to go for Lunch?". "How about place1 or place2?" replied Curtis.

Does our couple choose to goto place1? turn to page 12
Does our couple choose to goto place2? turn to page 15"

So something like the above, phrased in any which way you prefer. You could give the day a super hero theme or something if your into that, the ideas are endless.

Anyway so creating this book is only the first part. The other 3 things you'll need to think about are transport, a digital camera and finalizing the book (i'll explain this later).

So the next move is to find transport. Personally i choose to hire 2 scooters and we traveled round on them for the day but if your on a budget you could do this idea for free by walking or riding. Alternatively you could drive or catch transport but unless your doing that in a limo then that may take some of the romance out of it.

So as i said, i choose scooters. From here i'll explain how the day worked and you'll get the gist of what else you will need to do.

So i picked her up early in the morning from her house, not letting her know where we were going (i'd already told her what to bring clothes wise) and off we went. We drove down to a scooter hire store near the beach and when we pulled into the carpark i gave her the book. The first line of which read "What are we doing here?" which was of course her very comment as we pulled up. And thus the story had begun. (In the book i mostly guessed what she was likely to say). So from there we, using the book, made our way to our breakfast location, then for a cruise down the coast, then to the beach, then to a lunch location, to shopping (always a win with girls) then onto Tea then finally back to the scooter store.

The whole day i was taking LOTS of photo's, this is key as you'll need these photo's later.

Needless to say she was pretty happy with the day out. But oh no no no the romantic story hasn't finished yet. Because what you are now going to do boys is to re-write the story, exactly how it happened (even funny things that were said or spotted out etc) then you're going to get all the pictures and put it throughout your whole story (i used a program i downloaded online to make all my pictures cartoonized, just to add some style) then make a nice front and back cover and either bind it yourself or get it made up professionally (i bound mine myself and she still loved it). Then with some chocolates and a Kiss hand her the book and thank her for being the most awesome girl you've ever known.

Trust me if this doesn't win you some browny points.... well you need to change girls......