BEFORE WE GET STARTED…
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This week we are featuring:
This Saturday, an event that happens once every year
the night the ice rink is cheaper than a normal public skate
an arcade where every game costs a nickel
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THREE DATES, TWENTY FIVE DOLLARS TOTAL
Norse Code
Festival · free
Viking Day Festival takes over Downtown Park in Pleasant Grove on Saturday, October 10, from 10 AM to 5 PM, and it is free to attend. Local vendors, food trucks, live music, and a strongman competition (idk what that is but if you know, lmk). Pleasant Grove tells you to come dressed in your fiercest Viking garb, or not, either is fine.
Go before noon. The music and the strongman heats both land in the middle of the day, and the parking near 200 South Main fills outward from the park. If either of you runs, the Run Like a Viking 5K goes off from the same park at 8 AM.
Ask on the way out of something you were both already at, because you can say it in ten seconds and keep walking. Lead with the strongman competition (maybe she’s into that??).
When you see them in person, say: “I’m driving up to a Viking thing in Pleasant Grove Saturday morning. There’s an actual strongman competition. You free Saturday morning?”
Clean Sweep
Broomball · $12-18
Peaks Ice Arena at 100 North Seven Peaks Boulevard runs a public skate session for college-age patrons only, Friday nights from 10 PM to midnight. It is $6 each to skate and the rentals are included, $6 each for broom ball, or $9 if you want both. Broom ball is where you stay in your regular shoes, no skates, and chase a ball around the ice with a broom.
The ordinary public skate is $6 plus $4 for rentals, so the college session is the cheaper one, and it is the only one that goes to midnight.
Text them and say: “This is kind of random, but there’s a college skate night at Peaks Friday at ten p.m. I’ve got you covered if you want to come?”
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We’ll feature you as a single in an upcoming issue, using your photo and a few lines about you, so other readers can reach out and ask you out, all for $5. Think a one-person profile card that goes to the whole list instead of doom scrolling on Mutual.
How it works:
(1) Venmo $5 to me, @hamiltonpr,
(2) reply to this email with a photo, your first name, age, year and major, what you are looking for, and how you want people to reach you.
A No Is Information
Rejection · BYU Daily Universe
The BYU Daily Universe talked to students about Mutual’s speed dating nights, and one of them, Skyler Ludlow, said something pretty cool (I think): ”even if people aren’t interested, at least you get the knowledge that they’re not interested so you can move on mentally or emotionally.” Use that advice on the Peaks card above, and don’t sweat it. You got this.
All For “a Nickel”
Arcade · $13-20
Nickel City is at 1515 South State Street in Orem, and the name is not a joke: every game in the arcade runs on actual nickels (maybe more than one but that’s besides the point). Admission is $2.50 each. Laser tag is $4 for your first game and $3 for every game after, and City Pizzeria is inside if the night runs long.
Call them and say: “I’m going to Nickel City Friday and I’m going to beat you at skee ball. Are you down?”
Here is a dare.
Ask someone to the Viking thing just as you’re walking around TODAY. You might not even know her. Just send it with someone random, the worst that happens is she says no.
And then….
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UPCOMING DATE OPPORTUNITIES
BONUS EVENTS
Hosting something in Utah Valley?
Through Saturday, Oct 10: Noises Off at SCERA
SCERA Center for the Arts, Orem · Mondays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 PM · $16 each · a play about a play falling apart, and the 10th is the last night
Text them and say: “There’s a comedy at SCERA that closes Saturday, sixteen bucks. I’m going Thursday. Come with me?”
Friday, Oct 9: BYU football vs Iowa State
LaVell Edwards Stadium · 8:15 PM on ESPN · ticketed · the Homecoming game, and a Friday night home game, which almost never happens
Call them and say: “The Homecoming game is Friday night against Iowa State. I’m having a watch party, wanna come?”
Saturday, Oct 10: Fall Movie Night, Hocus Pocus
Osier Park, 385 N Osier Ave, Lehi · free · activities from 5 PM, movie around 7 · free popcorn, bring a blanket, costumes welcome
When you see them in person, say: “Lehi is showing Hocus Pocus outside Saturday night and it’s free. I’m taking a blanket. Meet me there?”
Saturday, Oct 10: Provo Farmers Market
Pioneer Park, 500 W Center, Provo · free · the fall hours have started, 10 AM to 2 PM instead of 9
Text them and say: “The Provo market starts an hour later now. I’m going Saturday morning before the Viking thing. You around?”
Saturday, Oct 17: BYU football vs Notre Dame
LaVell Edwards Stadium · 5:30 PM on ABC · ticketed · Notre Dame in Provo, which is the biggest thing on the home schedule
Call them and say: “Notre Dame is in Provo on the 17th. Tickets are going to be gone. Should I get two?”
Just reply to this email!
From the Editor
Thanks for making it to the bottom.
Twenty five dollars, three dates, and one of them has a strongman competition in it. I have no notes.
Until next time,
— Two Tacos & a Hike