1 Year together

[Dazed]

You location is PA, right? Christmas in Hershey is FREE. If you have ever been to Hershey park, they just put lights up everywhere and have some of the games open. Along with random Xmas stuff and reindeer. Hotel room shouldn't cost more than $200.

Same with B&B in Lancaster.

DC trip may cost a little more (~$300), but, if you have never been to DC, you can have the entire weekend full of cruising the city, walking through the colleges, museums, shopping, government/historical stuff, etc. All this is free (minus cost of metro, which isn't too expensive).

However, since you are only 19, I wouldn't waste the money There will/should be more girls in your future.

[Winny]

For starters Xero... I'm amazed that you're only 19 - reading your posts - you have wisdom beyond your years!!!

Congratulations on your 1 year and holding off on a sexual relationship - so that being said, an overnight romantic getaway is out of the question (and it can be expensive too).

I like the make it yourself present idea. As a woman, there is nothing more romantic than a guy letting his girl know she is on his mind and the effort you put in that will most likely not go unnoticed. This depends on your creative abilities, but there are a lot of sites to get ideas from. The first thing that hits my mind is "Art Attack" (Art Attack) it's my kids' favourite show. This guy (Neil Buchanan) is very talented and can make anything out of anything!

I agree with Beagle, what is she into? Would she like a romantic picnic? Maybe burn a CD with her/your (plural) favourite music? If you can cook, making a meal is a great touch... write her something (doesn't have to be poetry) about why you're happy to be with her. Like Dan said, its the spending time together that's important.

Anyway, congratulations again, and she is a lucky girl to have a guy who's emotionally invested in her. I'm sure she'd be pleased with anything that you come up with.

Good Luck!!

[Xero]

Update:

I actually forgot to post what went down finally.

So my girlfriend gave me options on what we could do and I picked something.

Let me start from the beginning.

We planned on meeting at her house because I'm the one driving. So I went to the store days before and found a nice necklace to get her that I knew she would like(nothing too fancy just some Hello Kitty thing she loves that cat).

I also got her some flowers the day of, before I went over to her house. So we planned on eating breakfast and that consisted of pancakes. So we ate breakfast and exchanged cards we wrote for each other and the gift(s) that we got for each other.

Then we went to the water park and spent most of the day there. We left and went to the local mall to just look around at stuff and spend time with each other. Went to my house afterward and watched some TV and that was mostly our day. Simple yet fun.

[YourEternalRest]

Sounds like everything went well.