Adventure Dating

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Wed, 15 May 2013 20:45:12 -0400

biancarocksout: Sunday, May 5, 2013 My Sunday started with...

Mon, 06 May 2013 15:57:05 -0400

Sunday, May 5, 2013

My Sunday started with waving bye to the beach and a train ride back to NYC, then turned into an awesome day adventure date.

Taking a Bari Hybrid class in Soho via How About We Couples — trampolines and jumping/dancing around to pop songs = my kind of workout date

Going for a motorcycle ride - i think i’m getting used to this whole holding on for my dear life driving around trucks and cars on the highway thing

Stopping by The Great Swamp Wildlife Reserve

Splitting an ice cream sundae at a diner

Btw, can we just talk about how amazing the Days app is? View my day on the app here (for full GIF experience!).

With Aaron’s work taking him to TX for most of the week, it was great to spend all of Sunday on a date adventure. We finally got a chance to take his bike out of winter storage from the beach house and ride it around- fitting a fun new workout class in between.

We’ve come a long way from those first motorcycle dates… with Bianca now finally having her very own motorcycle jacket and gloves. Next step = helmet. Woo!

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Thu, 02 May 2013 15:01:49 -0400

biancarocksout: The Things I Wear: Unintentional Matching …...

Wed, 01 May 2013 14:01:15 -0400

biancarocksout:

The Things I Wear: Unintentional Matching

… with AaronAlexSmall for brunch in the East Village. It’s like he’s Mallory or something. Though I can’t take all the credit- he wears this teal color a lot and his awesome mom got me the awesome top.

Are we like those couples in Korea yet?!?

A year ago last thursday Aaron tricked Bianca into going to...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:18:58 -0400

A year ago last thursday Aaron tricked Bianca into going to Jersey City for the first time after creamsicle cocktails and Pinkberry.

Thank you to Timehop for the lovely reminder.

Adventure Dates: 2013 MTV Movie Awards The MTV Movie Awards...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:24:00 -0400

Adventure Dates: 2013 MTV Movie Awards

The MTV Movie Awards happened to fall on our 1 year daterversary, and thanks to The Brady Center we got the chance to go! While neither of us had much time to go see any of the movies that were being presented, It made for a great year-end wrap-up with all of the clips they showed.

Rebel Wilson was hilarious, Aubrey Plaza got drunk and was escorted out of the premises, Bianca freaked out over the Fast & the Furious cast, and of course… there was that moment we were waiting for:

Renting cars #LA

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:21:03 -0400

Renting cars #LA

biancarocksout: Taking it to the streets of Hollywood… On the...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:16:10 -0400

biancarocksout:

Taking it to the streets of Hollywood…

On the one year anniversary of our “dancing in the park first date”, Aaron and I found ourselves in LA.

To celebrate, we decided to take it to the streets of Hollywood. A year later the blackberry and mini amp have been replaced by an iPhone and jambox, my puma canvas sneakers by Portovelo shoes, and the cardboard on the ground by Hollywood stars.

There weren’t any kids to crash our dancing operation, though we did crash some actual street performers operations.

This is what happened on that date. Complete with an accidental Marilyn Monroe moment on the stairs of the metro…

[and agan, in case you missed the amazingness of what inspired this… watch it here]

music: Hollywood - RAC featuring Penguin Prison (Felix Da Housecat Remix)

wearing:

American Apparel dress & shirt

Portovelo shoes (benefiting Flourishing Futures)

Spotify sunglasses (stole from Mager)

Jambox & UP band c/o Jawbone, Tote bag by FEED Projects

We spent our one year anniversary in LA… doing basically what we did on our first date. #dancing

Balloons, snark, & science. Makes for a great...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:58:55 -0400

Balloons, snark, & science. Makes for a great combination.

(via onlylolgifs)

mtv: Selena Gomez gifs to get your ready for her performance on...

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 20:53:50 -0400

mtv:

Selena Gomez gifs to get your ready for her performance on Sunday’s MTV Movie Awards via Buzzworthy: http://on.mtv.com/16SRUf5

We can’t wait to see Selena IRL ON STAGE OMGZ.

Adventure Dates: LA Bound! We’re going to LA this weekend...

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 20:48:53 -0400

Adventure Dates: LA Bound!

We’re going to LA this weekend for the MTV Movie Awards! Tickets from the Brady Center Gala auction (you know, from that time that we were walking around midtown in black tie attire).

Anti gun violence, pro celebrating awesome movies.

This also makes for a great date to celebrate the one year anniversary of this. Dancing and adventuring for one whole year. Woot.

Love in the time of Social Media... and ice cream

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 20:38:19 -0400

Bianca: I love you more than I love social media!
Aaron: I'm not going to say I love you more than I love social media because that means nothing.
Aaron: Because I don't love social media.
Aaron: But I love you more than I love ice cream.

Last night’s impromptu dating assistant planned...

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:43:00 -0400

Last night’s impromptu dating assistant planned date…

Some time in the afternoon I asked our dating assistant Holly to plan an impromptu “something for us to do” last night.

Coming from JC and BK to do yoga in the UES, then head to a dive in midtown may not seem like much of an ‘adventure’ to most, but all of that running around and not having known we’d be doing it when we woke up in the morning was kind of fun!

Why wouldn’t we just do yoga somewhere closer to our apartments/office, or get drinks around the yoga studio? We don’t know! We do what Holly says when we give her control of the date. (The best part is that I’ve actually actively avoided doing yoga with Aaron because I get self conscious. Leave it to Holly to force me to finally do it.)

And so, we went from the sweaty of the sweatiest dates to the divey of the diviest bars (which I actually don’t think you should do after Bikram… *shrug*). It was fun, we were into it, and thank god for emergency leotard in my office locker.

We appropriately danced to Love is a Battlefield at Holland Bar with the bartender:

-Bianca

Flirting 101 with Aaron and Bianca as told in real text messages

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 19:58:48 -0500

3/4/2013

Bianca: I love you and your PowerPoint presentations.

Aaron: It’s what I do for a living.

Bianca: Your deliverable timeline was sexy.

Aaron: Thanks babe. You should see how saucey I can get with my more advanced deliverable timelines.

3/5/2013

Aaron: I love you with all my prefrontal cortex.

Though getting matching lock and keys at the Coffee Meets Bagel...

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 19:57:55 -0500

Though getting matching lock and keys at the Coffee Meets Bagel Lock & Key event wasn’t deliberate, the way that the CMB team input Aaron’s name in the ticketing system was…

we’re into it.

Adventure Dates: Key to My Heart at the Coffee Meets Bagel Lock...

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 13:43:53 -0500

Adventure Dates: Key to My Heart at the Coffee Meets Bagel Lock & Key Event!

Coffee Meets Bagel events are among our favorite, not only bc we <3 the founders Arum and Dawoon, but also because they usually have a pretty good theme and we always have fun (like the time we went to their first singles mixer and pretended we had never met)… or get ourselves into a little bit of trouble (like the time Bianca jumped into a fountain in the middle of the room at their Summer Rooftop Party).

The CMB team decided to take it back to NY (since they’ve relocated to SF), to hold a Lock & Key event just in time for Valentine’s Day, at which each guy received a random lock and each girl received a random key upon entry. Guests were then encouraged to meet new people and walk around the room to try to find their match.

We decided to check out the event with our friend Billy (p.s. ladies, he is single- interested interesting parties inquire within). Much to our surprise, when Bianca jokingly tried her key into Aaron’s lock at first try, it immediately opened! Convince that then everyone’s lock must work on everyone’s key Bianca tried hers on a few more and no cigar. Then of course we decided it had to be the CMB team that set it up when we signed in… but they were just as surprised and excited as we were! Woo! So of course celebratory pictures were taken, and many a drink were had. We’re actually going to buy some chains to wear our official lock and key on.

Yay! We did it guys! We’re meant to be!! #love

Check out the rest of the event photos here.

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Wed, 27 Feb 2013 13:17:36 -0500

We made face(s)

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:46:01 -0500

We made face(s)

thisiswhyiloveny: Ten months ago, I met a boy on a dating site...

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:02:00 -0500

thisiswhyiloveny:

Ten months ago, I met a boy on a dating site who jokingly suggested we go dancing in the park for money, a response to my request that anything we do on our date had to involve dancing. I said “YES!!!” Busking in the park is kind of a strange date - especially in a city where there are limitless things to - but that’s what we went with.

And so I found myself standing in the middle of Tompkins Square Park with cardboard taped to the ground, a videotape, my pop-heavy playlist blasting on a mini amp, and me holding a sign saying I’d only go on a [real] date with him if he could make $20 from dancing.

That date was the best date I had ever gone on. I honestly don’t think it could be replicated outside of this city or even at another park. Tompkins gets a bad rap- [insert joke about homeless people and heroin addicts here]- but it holds a special place in my heart, as I spent a portion of my life wandering around aimlessly in the East Village, sometimes alone and sometimes with a crew, with the park ending up as my home base.

And the audience? Such unfazed NYers, they paid more attention to the neighboring African drum crew than our dancing team. We did, however, attract a group of kids who made the date 10 times better than we could have ever imagined. Their non-cynical youthfulness added a little something to our challenge, as they joined us in the dance, eager to help us make money. How a five-year-old child who was a trained breakdancer found us, we have no idea… but it was amazing and only in NY. At the end of it we only made $1.75: from the mother of the kids who basically paid us for the babysitting we had just done.

Ten months later I watch this video and listen to the kids declaring that we were in love, something that we didn’t have the foresight to see, being that it was our first date. Those kids were right. Ten months later, we’re totally in love, and now looking for an apartment to move into together in the very neighborhood where it all began. We can only hope that wherever it is, we’ll be a hop, skip, and moonwalk away from the park.

- submitted by NYer Bianca Caampued of Small Girls PR.

Bianca shared the story of our first date on thisiswhyiloveny.com! We love NY & love!

Partnering.

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 16:09:41 -0500

Partnering.