Epic friend weekend bingo?
June 26, 2017 9:53 AM Subscribe
My husband and kid are going to be away for a week in august so my best friend and I are also going to be taking the week off and she is going to come up and spend the week with me. We're both super duper excited. I want to make it as super fun, memorable, and ridiculous as possible, so I'm hoping the green can help me come up with different over the top things I can prepare in advance and surprise her with that will help our weekend be extra fun. Current ideas and details within.
My bestie (who is also my cousin) lives an hour away, so we don't see each other constantly, but every month or two she and I get together for a weekend. Those weekend activities usually involve playing on the Wii, watching scary movies, sewing, and usually some drinking. I really want to make this one extra special for all sorts of reasons, but mostly because we've both been through a lot of shit lately and both have had some very serious struggles with our depression the past few months, and we are if anything even closer for having helped and supported each other through. I want to do this to be a bit "Fuck, we're awesome, best friendship ever!" but also "Fuck, YOU'RE awesome, thank you for being such a kick ass friend" for her. Because seriously. She's amazing.
- We're going to have I think 6 days together.
- Our week is in mid august so I have plenty of time to arrange things between now and then.
- We're staying at my house for the week where we have a deck and an epic home theatre at our disposal.
- we're already calling the visit "Cousin Spectacular", so it has a name. (Sidenote: Our annual October cousin weekend is called "Cuztoberfest". We're awesome.)
- One night we're going to the gay bar since she recently (and FINALLY) came out to her family so we're in full force "Lets find a nice lady!" mode for her.
Ideas I have had so far:
- making a giant roulette wheel with all sorts of different fun things we could do, both all day things and small quick things (ie. paint each other's nails, eat a popsicle, play a level of Yoshi, etc). Maybe two separate sets of options would make more sense in that case?
- spend one day on a roadtrip scavenger hunt for items we can find at yard sales, thrift stores, dollar store, etc. Preferably items we actually want and would use (ie. awesome earrings for less than 2$), or we can go with the option of photo documenting the items on the list that we don't actually want to buy (ie. a weird doll with one eye shut)
- Have a bingo cards for the entire week (NEED IDEAS FOR THIS)
- Keep a quote board for the week for all the dumb ass stuff we end up saying. (throw back to when we lived in the same residence at university. We did this one cousin weekend years ago and the results were and still are hilarious)
My bestie (who is also my cousin) lives an hour away, so we don't see each other constantly, but every month or two she and I get together for a weekend. Those weekend activities usually involve playing on the Wii, watching scary movies, sewing, and usually some drinking. I really want to make this one extra special for all sorts of reasons, but mostly because we've both been through a lot of shit lately and both have had some very serious struggles with our depression the past few months, and we are if anything even closer for having helped and supported each other through. I want to do this to be a bit "Fuck, we're awesome, best friendship ever!" but also "Fuck, YOU'RE awesome, thank you for being such a kick ass friend" for her. Because seriously. She's amazing.
- We're going to have I think 6 days together.
- Our week is in mid august so I have plenty of time to arrange things between now and then.
- We're staying at my house for the week where we have a deck and an epic home theatre at our disposal.
- we're already calling the visit "Cousin Spectacular", so it has a name. (Sidenote: Our annual October cousin weekend is called "Cuztoberfest". We're awesome.)
- One night we're going to the gay bar since she recently (and FINALLY) came out to her family so we're in full force "Lets find a nice lady!" mode for her.
Ideas I have had so far:
- making a giant roulette wheel with all sorts of different fun things we could do, both all day things and small quick things (ie. paint each other's nails, eat a popsicle, play a level of Yoshi, etc). Maybe two separate sets of options would make more sense in that case?
- spend one day on a roadtrip scavenger hunt for items we can find at yard sales, thrift stores, dollar store, etc. Preferably items we actually want and would use (ie. awesome earrings for less than 2$), or we can go with the option of photo documenting the items on the list that we don't actually want to buy (ie. a weird doll with one eye shut)
- Have a bingo cards for the entire week (NEED IDEAS FOR THIS)
- Keep a quote board for the week for all the dumb ass stuff we end up saying. (throw back to when we lived in the same residence at university. We did this one cousin weekend years ago and the results were and still are hilarious)
This sounds awesome!
Thrifting trip: Plan a sequential route of all the thriftstores/garage sales in the area. Maybe a Bingo Card just for this event?
Take photos of all your exploits - make a Shutterfly (or similar) book either during your week or after - order a copy for each of you - include your quotes for posterity.
posted by sarajane at 10:09 AM on June 26, 2017 [2 favorites]
Thrifting trip: Plan a sequential route of all the thriftstores/garage sales in the area. Maybe a Bingo Card just for this event?
Take photos of all your exploits - make a Shutterfly (or similar) book either during your week or after - order a copy for each of you - include your quotes for posterity.
posted by sarajane at 10:09 AM on June 26, 2017 [2 favorites]
Best answer: This isn't an epic thing, but it's something I enjoy doing in preparation for a friend's visit. GIFT BASKET. I get together some little whatnots, usually a mix of snacks and pampering items, and stick them in a container in the room where the friend will sleep. GIFT BASKET!
Well-received gift basket items include: nail polish, beauty masks that make the wearer look like a whimsical if oddly menacing animal, little cross stitch kits, savory snacks, sweet snacks, notebook and pen, mini bottles of booze, Advil, the wifi password
posted by 2or3things at 10:11 AM on June 26, 2017 [3 favorites]
Well-received gift basket items include: nail polish, beauty masks that make the wearer look like a whimsical if oddly menacing animal, little cross stitch kits, savory snacks, sweet snacks, notebook and pen, mini bottles of booze, Advil, the wifi password
posted by 2or3things at 10:11 AM on June 26, 2017 [3 favorites]
I would love to have a few carefully chosen activities scheduled. That might be a cooking course, afternoon tea, a massage, a theatre trip, a concert, a jewellery making workshop, a skydive, wine-tasting, poetry reading, introduction to knitting, zoo trip, a long bike ride with a picnic, a cycle maintenance course . . . . .
posted by kadia_a at 11:33 AM on June 26, 2017
posted by kadia_a at 11:33 AM on June 26, 2017
Best answer: Y'all should have a brainstorming session, come up with an awesome idea for matching cousin BFF tattoos and then go get them together!
posted by little mouth at 5:34 PM on June 28, 2017
posted by little mouth at 5:34 PM on June 28, 2017
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