Fun in the Sun... Your Guide to Great Summer Date Ideas

It’s sum-sum-summertime; the imagination conjures up beach music, pool parties, barbecues and tall, cold drinks. Summer is a time for enjoying the outdoors, getting hot and sweaty, indulging by the poolside and eating ice cream on a cone. Summer is about lazy, hot days and torrid, fun-filled nights. It’s about the laughter we enjoyed as children and the sheer number of opportunities for dates and fun that summer offers us.

Take Me Out to the Ballgame!

Summer has baseball and even non-sports fans find attending a game for the first time is its own kind of magic. Sharing a hot dog and listening to the roar of a crowd as you cheer on your home team reminds you why this is America’s pastime.

Slip'n'Slide Into This Date Idea

If sports don’t appeal, try a water park. You may be stressed about your first date in a bikini, but honestly – all that matters is how much fun you can have riding down rapids, shooting down slides or just floating over the lazy river. Water parks are a unique source of fun in the summer, amusement parks are usually crowded with long lines, but even in a crowded water park – there’s something to do that doesn’t require a line.

Experience Local Cuisine

Water parks and baseball not really sounding that appealing? Many cities host a “Taste of” night where restaurants and other local businesses host a fair of sorts. Food of all varieties filling the air with mouth-watering scents. For a relatively inexpensive cost, you can wander through and sample the different delicacies available. There might be music, dancing, fireworks and street artists as well. This is a date as opposite the ballpark or water park as you can find!

There’s so many opportunities in the summer that are worth exploring from night time concerts to Shakespeare in the Park to renaissance festivals to ice cream cones and day trips to the beach. Try our massive list of date ideas to find something creative for you and your mate. There are so many possible fun experiences in the summer time, that if you don’t see one here that you would like to try – invent one of your own. In the summer – anything is possible.

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