Cheap Dating 101

So over the weekend, Susan and I went out on a cheap date. This is something we try to do regularly, just because. We're lucky that we have a good income, and can afford flashy restaurants and expensive nightclubs, but we also like to see how much fun we can have without actually spending much money, too.

So we went to Ann Arbor, to the U of M Exhibit Museum of Natural History. It's a small museum, but I think it's a good one, if you like fossils, geology, and taxidermy. You don't see too many large wildlife collections stuffed and mounted anymore, like the Exhibit Museum has. It's a display style that went out with the 19th Century.

The Hall of Evolution has some spectacular dinosaurs, including a velociraptor. They also have quite a few mastodon skeletons and trackways. Those last were found in Michigan, so let's here it for the home team!

All in all, it was a fun day. We drove out together, wandered through the museum hand in hand, and then went out to dinner. "Cheap dating" comes in because the museum doesn't charge admission. Rather, they have a donation bin in the front entryway, although they have been increasing their "suggested donation" over the years....

Dinner was at Seva, a vegetarian restaurant in downtown Ann Arbor. I had a humungous burrito. Susan had a squash. Everything was delicious. We decided not to count dinner as part of the Cheap Date, because we wanted to acutally keep it a cheap date.

And that was that. I wanted to include maps of where these places are, but Blogger isn't letting me post pictures. Blah. Maybe later.