1. See The Lights

There are many places to see the lights in the Saint Louis area and depending on where you both live you can pick which is the closest for you both. In the Wentzville, Missouri area, Rotary park has one of the best drive-through light shows at a fairly low price.

In O'Fallon, MO there is Fort Zumwalt park with a slightly smaller set of lights than Rotary park, but also for a low price. And finally the two downtown STL light spots, Tilles Park as well as the Anheuser Busch lights where you can also rent a fire pit to warm up with after the viewing of the lights.

2. Ice Skating

There are two places I am familiar with for iceskating, while sadly the rink at The Meadows in Lake Saint Louis is not up again this year, in Wentzville, the Lindenwood ice rink does open skating throughout the season. The large, outdoor, downtown rink that is worth every penny is the Steinberg Skating Rink. This ice rink is all about the Christmas spirit and will make you feel like you're in a movie.

3. Bake Cookies

A much cheeper, yet still fun idea to get in the Christmas spirit with your love. Grab some sweats and turn on the music and get to baking with a Pintrest recipe or a bagged mix and some colorful icing and have a bake off with one another. Cookies are one of my favorite things during this time of year, probably because I despise gingerbread.

4. See A Game

For less "Christmasy" ideas, seeing a Blues game would be really fun no matter how much or little you or your partner knows about hockey. They have a bunch of giveaway games and you can really make a day of going to the game and hitting up some good food places. Nosebleed seats are NOT bad and ARE super cheap.

(the super cute pic at the top is me and my boy after a blues game during golden hour when I forced him to retake a picture we had already taken)

5. Ride A Bird

This is personally on my to-do list this winter, most likely in combination with a few other things to make a whole trip out of a few events. These scooters are easy to find, ride and fund. I can only imagine the type of race that would occur between an extremely competitive couple... I will have to let you know how that goes.

6. See The Art

If you live in Saint Louis and haven't been to the Art Museum, 1. I am disappointed and 2. you need to go now. Its free to go to and could take a lot of time out of your day to spend with your partner. It's always interesting, to me at least, to see other people's reaction to the pieces. I am no art major, however, I do have a deep love for this place and think everyone needs to get yelled at for getting too close to the art at least once.