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On this episode of Try Living With Lucie, our host, Lucie Fink takes on 5 days of date nights! She finds special ways to spend quality time with her loved ones through all kinds of dates. Watch this week's Try Living With Lucie to see how it goes!   In Partnership With Ocean Spray.  ABOUT SERIES Try Living With Lucie follows our favorite R29 millennial, Lucie Fink, as she dives headfirst into social experiments — five days at a time. From a week without sugar to full-blown street performing; there is nothing she won't try!   ABOUT REFINERY29  Refinery29 is a modern woman's destination for how to live a stylish, well-rounded life. http://refinery29.com/  RELATED CONTENT 5 Days Of A Capsule Wardrobe https://youtube.com/watch?v=Di9Bjf_OPj4 5 Days Of Meal Prep https://youtube.com/watch?v=DWaU47V3rMU&t=521s 5 Days Of Sleeping On The Floor https://youtube.com/watch?v=HsV_cwDY4l4  SEE MORE REFINERY29 VIDEOS http://refinery29.com/video  SUBSCRIBE TO REFINERY29 Subscribe to the Refinery29 channel: http://bit.ly/subscribe-to-r29 For the latest trends and videos, visit: http://refinery29.com Like Refinery29 on Facebook: https://facebook.com/refinery29 Follow Refinery29 on Twitter: https://twitter.com/refinery29 Heart Refinery29 on Instagram: https://instagram.com/refinery29/  TALENT Follow Lucie Fink on Instagram: https://instagram.com/luciebfink/ Follow Unbothered on Instagram: https://instagram.com/r29unbothered/ Follow OnHerTurf on Instagram: https://instagram.com/onherturf/ Follow Refinery29 on Instagram: https://instagram.com/refinery29/

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00:00I'm Lucy Fink and this week is five days of date nights. Welcome everyone. If you're new to

00:05Refinery29's YouTube channel, click on the little subscribe box in the corner and give this video

00:09a thumbs up if you're excited to see five different dates. With all the craziness at

00:14Refinery29 that seems to pop up around the holiday season, I feel like I've been pouring a ton of my

00:19time and energy into work and to be completely honest, it seems like I'm slacking on my social

00:24life just a little bit. I learned somewhere that the six overall factors that contribute to you

00:28leading an overall healthy life are sleep, diet, exercise, stress levels, mental health, and number

00:36six, relationships. Relationships are like flowers. They need to be watered and nurtured if you want

00:41them to grow and thrive. And I'm not just talking about romantic relationships. I'm talking about

00:46every single relationship that you have in your life. Not too long ago, I did an episode of Lucy

00:51for Hire as a cranberry farmer with Ocean Spray. I partnered up with Ocean Spray again to indulge

00:56in a full five days of exploring unique date ideas that will hopefully help build my relationships

01:01with a bunch of people that I love. So here's what I did on my five fabulous dates.

01:08I knew that if I wanted to do a date night episode, I needed to start the week off with

01:12my favorite person. The guy that I am actually dating. Romantically. Michael and I love date

01:18nights and we try to set aside at least a few nights a week to have dinner together. But to

01:22make

01:22Monday's date truly special, we took the classic tenting under the stars experience and brought

01:27it indoors to our Manhattan apartment. We ordered a seven foot canvas tent online and then the

01:32two of us got to work turning our living room into a cozy camping ground. The tent came in

01:37multiple pieces, so there were wooden rods all over the floor. We had to look up the instructions

01:42online and it wound up taking us about 30 minutes to assemble the whole thing. So it starts with the

01:46drill

01:47pole, then we connect this, another connector, and then a top pole. So this is one of our five legs.

01:54And even though it was pretty complex and a little bit labor-intensive...

02:00Gently push. What are you twisting for? This is hard. We definitely felt like it was a team-building

02:05exercise that had the two of us laughing the entire time. Hello? Hello? Are you okay? This is so fun!

02:14Nice! Teamwork!

02:18Okay, we've got our tent. And once we got the tent standing, the fun part began. I'm going in.

02:26Oh my god, it's so cold! We're in! We're in! Okay, bye. We started decorating the whole space, so we

02:32put string lights all around the edge of the canvas.

02:35It's like a Christmas tree. Don't drop me! We added a faux fur throw to make the base really comfy.

02:42We jazzed it up with wintry things like pine cones, a fake candle, and even a fake fire. This is

02:48amazing!

02:48And once everything was assembled, we ordered some sushi and sat down for dinner. Sushi!

02:55Alright. Yeah. Cheers.

02:57This night was magical. There was something so surreal about having a giant tent in our living room taking up

03:04so much space.

03:05But it's so much fun to do something like that for just one night as a change of pace. After

03:09dinner,

03:09we snuggled up and we ate some cinnamon sugar marshmallows that we pretended to roast over the fake flame.

03:14If you're out there looking for a cheap and cozy date night at home, you should definitely consider

03:19doing something like this. This date was hygge to the max.

03:26For my next date, I wanted it to be with the gal I love most in the whole world,

03:31you guessed it, my twin sister and my womb-mate, yes, we shared a womb, Allie.

03:37Thankfully, we only live a few blocks apart, so we do hang out all the time, but most of the

03:42time

03:42we're doing the exact same thing. We're snuggling up and we're watching TV. So I wanted our twin

03:47sister date night to involve doing something active. Something new that we both haven't done at

03:52home before and also something that was going to be a memorable learning experience for the two of us.

03:56One of Allie's all-time favorite foods is pasta, so I invited her over to my apartment so that we

04:02could make our own pasta from scratch. Before we got started, I made us cocktails using Ocean Spray's

04:08Pink Light Cranberry Juice Drink. This one is made with pink, white, and red cranberries, so it's pink.

04:15Wow, it's so pretty. I know. Save some for me. I first poured some rum into a cocktail shaker,

04:21then I added in fresh mint leaves and the Pink Light Cranberry Juice Drink. I shook it up with ice,

04:26make sure it's perfect, poured it into a pitcher, look at that beauty, added some sparkling water and a

04:32garnish of mint and fresh cranberries on top, and then we popped it into the fridge to keep it nice

04:37and

04:37cold while we started making the pasta. Allie and I cleaned off the counter. Give me a hug.

04:44Do you like me? And then we created a mixture using all-purpose flour, semolina flour, and some salt.

04:51We poured it onto the counter and then created a little well in the middle. We cracked one whole

04:55egg and two additional egg yolks into the open space, and then using a fork, we whisked the eggs and

05:01slowly integrated the flour into the liquid without letting the egg run outside of the well. We started

05:06kneading the dough, which was a lot tougher than we both thought it would be. You ready to eat this?

05:15Catch. And we ultimately set it aside to rest while we started making a vegetable bolognese. We

05:23chopped up a giant mixture of veggies and added them into a sizzling pan. It's ready.

05:31We mixed in tomato sauce and then capped it and let it simmer while we got back to the dough.

05:35In just

05:36the 10 minutes that we set it aside, the dough had softened a ton, so it was a lot easier

05:40to handle

05:41this time around. Whoa! And we rolled it out with a rolling pin, making it as thin as we possibly

05:46could

05:47without having any cracks. Then we rolled it up onto itself and cut it into pappardelle strips. If you're

05:52doing this yourself, I would highly recommend using a pasta rolling machine, one of those things that

05:57makes the dough really skinny and flat, because our pasta did come out kind of thick. But then again,

06:02pasta is pasta. I don't discriminate based on size. Once the pasta was cut, we created three little nets

06:08and dropped them into boiling water to cook. And once it was ready, we mixed it with the vegetable

06:12sauce and dinner was served. Who out there doesn't love the idea of cooking something from scratch

06:17with your best friend on a cold winter's night. Twin dinner. This is so good. If you have a friend

06:24or

06:24a sibling that you spend a lot of time with, try mixing it up one night soon. Do something that

06:29you

06:29both have never tried before, make something new, and just enjoy the experience together.

06:35Wednesday was hilarious. In thinking about what date nights I wanted to have, I immediately thought of

06:40the co-workers at Refinery29 that I spend most of my days with. Again, dates don't need to be

06:45strictly romantic. And group dates can be a great team building experience. I brought in a comedian

06:51from New York's famous improv and sketch comedy club, the Upright Citizens Brigade, and she taught

06:56me and a group of my colleagues the basics of improv. We all stayed at the office late after everyone

07:01else had gone home and we gathered in the Refinery29 studio space. Why don't we get our improv class

07:07started? We formed into a circle and started out with some warm-ups.

07:21It helped us all loosen up and have some laughs before moving on to some more challenging stuff.

07:26Next, we played a game where someone goes into the middle of the circle and Monique picks a topic

07:30that that person has to pretend to be an expert on. You invented flight without airplanes. So when people on

07:36the outside of the circle ask them questions, they have to think on their feet and answer quickly

07:40and confidently as if they were an expert. Are there any wings? No, it's just your heart,

07:45and then you fly. You talk to squirrels in the Madison Square Park. Do you have a favorite squirrel?

07:52I do. His name's Kimmy. He's relatively new to the squirrel scene. Great job.

07:59And lastly, we did some scene work with partners and groups. No stress.

08:03We're all here to support. One where we had to be doing some action together, but we weren't allowed

08:08to talk about the action. You guys are wall climbing. Thinking about how I have to meet my

08:14boyfriend's parents. If you're on the hard side of the wall, mine is. I have pretty good pegs here.

08:20Oh, right. And another one where we had to come up with character traits for other people,

08:25and then those people just had to go with it. I hate the way she's always putting her fingernails at

08:30work.

08:30Yeah. Does it have a clipper? Oh, yeah. It's really hideous in there. It's green.

08:35We did an exercise where new people would join the scene, and every time a new person came on,

08:40they had to change the topic entirely. She's choking.

08:46Completely different scene. We're just promising our yoga.

08:56I did improv in high school and college, but now that I've been out of school for almost five

09:01years, I'm starting to realize how beneficial improv is for a job like mine. Or honestly,

09:06for any job. Having the ability to think on your feet and just speak in front of people,

09:10everyone needs these skills. Some of these colleagues are people that I work with every

09:14day, and others are people that I've just seen around the office a couple times. But this was

09:18a bonding experience for sure. And now whenever I see my improv crew around the office, I feel like

09:24we have this special connection from that one date night we shared together.

09:33Thursday's date night was a little bit different from the traditional date nights that you've already

09:37seen, mainly because it was a day date. I typically do date nights or group dinners with my friends,

09:43but it's typically just one pocket of friends at a time. So either I'm with just my high school friends,

09:48or just my college friends, or just my camp friends, or just my work friends. And since I've met all

09:54these

09:54people in different places and different points in my life, many of these groups don't know each other.

09:59So I wanted to do an activity on Wednesday where I could get friends from various parts of my life

10:03to

10:04come together. And I settled on an afternoon of wine tasting, because you know what they say,

10:08wine brings people together. I don't exactly know who said it, but somebody must have said it,

10:13because it's true. I took a half day at work, and I first invited my friend from college, Monique,

10:18who's now in medical school and had the day off anyway. Then I invited my friend Ashley,

10:22who I actually met at an Instagram event in New York City. And Ashley brought her friend,

10:27Stevie, from back home. So it turned into one of those the more the merrier situations,

10:31and everyone was meeting at least one person that they didn't already know.

10:34We took a two hour drive out of Manhattan, passing the most beautiful scenery along the way,

10:39green, red, orange, and yellow trees, and rolling mountains. And eventually we arrived at Millbrook

10:44Vineyards and Winery. The moment we got there, everyone was in such a good mood and was so excited

10:49to be out of the city and in such a beautiful spot. And we went inside for a wine tasting

10:53first,

10:54and tried a delicious selection of red and white wines.

10:57If you want to know the five S's, the first one is sight. Take a look at the wine that

11:01you have

11:01in your glass. Then you want to swirl. Releases all the aromas and oxygenates the wine. Sniff.

11:07Then the next one is just a sip. Then you want to swallow and savor the wine.

11:14Cheers. Cheers everyone.

11:18We learned about the best food pairing options. Anything. Sushi.

11:22Yes. Too bad I don't have it here today. I can use those sushi.

11:26And just loved getting to relax and unwind. Afterwards we walked around the property,

11:31through the beautiful vineyards, and just spent some quality time together as friends. We talked

11:35about life and about everyone's individual jobs and career paths, all while enjoying the fresh air

11:40and the scenery. Today reminded me that it's okay to mix groups of people and that you don't always have

11:45to stay set spending time with the same group of friends at once. It got me out of the paradigm

11:50of

11:50compartmentalizing my friends into these little pockets and instead made me think that if you

11:55have a fun idea of something you want to do, you can bring together people from your various circles.

12:00And now you're doing everyone a service and everyone's making new friends.

12:06I was trying to figure out who in the world to take on a date on Friday when I was

12:10instantly

12:10transported back to my five days of spending time alone episode from a few years ago. Ever since that

12:16episode I've enjoyed my alone time so much more because as they say, and this time it's a real

12:20quote, the most important relationship is the one you have with yourself. And I just knew that spending

12:26the day taking myself out on a date was the best possible way I could finish off this week. I

12:30basically

12:31just asked myself, self what do you want to do today? And the very first thing that came to mind

12:36was puppies. Almost any time I see an animal my heart completely melts, but I also knew that if I

12:41was

12:41going to spend the day enjoying myself surrounded by puppies, I wanted to be volunteering and giving

12:46back. I reached out to Animal Haven, which is where I went during five days of volunteering,

12:50and I spent my day socializing with the animals, cleaning out cages, and taking their dogs out for

12:57walks. Oh yeah! I had a very unexpectedly sad moment inside as I was meeting all the dogs and hearing

13:05the stories of what brought them there in the first place. And I knew I was feeling emotional,

13:09I was starting to well up as we walked around, but then I actually got into the cage with a

13:14nine

13:14year old chow chow mix named Sierra, who was found wandering the streets of Philly all by herself.

13:19She was very mucusy and she was a little bit itchy all over her body, but the moment I got

13:24into the

13:24cage, I could just feel the love from her and I was looking into her eyes and I don't know

13:29what came

13:30over me, but I just started bawling. Oh my gosh! I was just overcome with this wave of sadness for

13:38these

13:38creatures and just a feeling of wanting to rescue all of them, literally to take them all out and put

13:43them on an open field where they can run outside and be loved by a family. Sadly, I'm not at

13:49a place

13:49in my life right now where I feel like I'd be a good pet owner just because I'm traveling too

13:53much

13:53for work and my schedule is so unpredictable. So for now, I can only encourage all of you out there

13:58to adopt, don't shop. And if anyone wants to take little Sierra home, I will love you forever and always.

14:04Later on, when I got home, I continued my solo date for the day by putting my phone away, popping

14:09on my comfiest robe and fixing myself a nice warm cup of tea. I crawled into bed and I started

14:15eating

14:15the leftover marshmallows from my date with Michael. I snuggled up in the sheets and I watched two of

14:20my favorite movies back to back. This week was filled with such incredible experiences and memories

14:26with people that all mean so much to me, from the romantic relationships to the ones that are just

14:30filled with love and mutual respect. I hope you were able to take away some really fun date ideas

14:35that you can try out with a romantic partner, with friends, or with anyone that you want to spend

14:39extra time with. Comment below letting us know what you did on your favorite date ever and also let

14:44me know what you want to see me try next time for five days at a time. See ya! Hey

14:48YouTube, thanks

14:49for watching! Click here for another five-day challenge video, here to subscribe to Refinery29 on YouTube,

14:55and right here for my personal YouTube channel. Bye!

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