Date Nights: Exploring the letter S in KC

Here are some “s”uper fun date night ideas!

Silo Modern Farmhouse is located at Canyon Farms Golf Club in Lenexa and boasts amazing views of the golf course. But that’s not all they can boast about. Their menu is full of locally-sourced and fresh, made-from-scratch dishes with everything ranging from baked brie en croute and quinoa salad to a bison burger and lamb chops. It’s modern farmhouse fine dining at its best. We went for dinner recently, and everything we had was excellent. A standout choice was the spinach salad with grilled salmon. Seems like such a simple, ordinary thing, but their chipotle honey vinaigrette set it apart from all others. It was delicious! The big thing Silo Modern Farmhouse is known for—and I do mean big—is the 32-layer chocolate cake. Wow! Chocolate mousse, chocolate cake, chocolate ganache, cherry chocolate sauce and vanilla whipped cream.

Something unique my husband and I recently did was have a science experiment date night. I hated science in school, so these were all things I’d definitely never done before. We did six different experiments, and three of them were especially fun. The first one I like to call “kaleidoscope.” You pour milk onto a plate and add food coloring. Then, using a cotton swab dipped in dish soap, touch the milk mixture. It results in some colorful and unusual interactions. Another one we liked was the floating dry erase stick man. Just draw a stick man—or woman—onto a glass or porcelain dish using a dry erase marker. Then, slowly add water; your stick person will float around. I have to admit—this one was awesome! The final one was homemade lava lamps. You pour one part water into a glass, followed by two parts vegetable oil and some food coloring. Then, you drop in an Alka Seltzer tablet and let the show begin!

Sully is an excellent movie about Captain Chesley Sullenberger, who became a hero after successfully landing his damaged plane on the Hudson River on Jan. 15, 2009. Shortly after takeoff, US Airways Flight 1549 hit a flock of geese, and Sully was forced to make some quick decisions. Starring the ever-talented Tom Hanks and directed by Clint Eastwood, the story of the “Miracle on the Hudson” is really two stories in one. It tells of the media and the public’s love of Sully for his heroic feat that saved the lives of all 155 people on board. But it also tells of an investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) going on simultaneously that threatened to end his career and destroy his reputation. The tension ebbs and flows, and, in the end, Hanks—and his tidy moustache—delivers an enjoyable performance not to be missed.

Hannah Berry is a freelance writer who lives with her husband in Kansas City. They enjoy regular date nights and love trying new restaurants and activities.