Cell phones and dating ideas

So anybody got any better ideas for a date? It started out just great. We had dinner at Ruby River (their steaks are probably the best you can do if there is no Longhorn Steakhouses within a couple hundred miles). Then seeing as we didn't have enough time to catch a movie -- and frankly there wasn't really a movie we cared to see -- and it was too cold by that time to do anything outside, minigolf, walking off the dinner, etc. We decided to walk around the mall. Talk about feeling old! Since I wanted to find out what kind of new cell phone I could get (in June, when our contract would be up), I suggested stopping at the Verizon counter to look for a couple minutes. So Tammy went off to the little girls room, and somehow those couple of minutes looking at phones turned into 10 minutes, then 20, then half of an hour. He talked me into a Blackberry phone instead of the more basic phone I was originally interested in. I guess you don't have to wait the 2 years to get your 'free' phone with Verizon. Only 1 year and sign a new 2-year contract. So after Tammy came back with some clothes for the kiddos, we spent another half of an hour and he threw in a free phone for Jeffrey to boot! Nothing fancy, no camera. Just a little more piece of mind for us when he's off on his own.
So anyways, a whole hour at the Verizon kiosk at the mall was not exactly Tammy's idea of a good date. To be fair, it wasn't mine either.
And now I've got my blackberry that I now don't think I'm even keeping seeing as how I can't sync up my work email and calendar to it like I was told I could, no problem. Maybe ... if I had the $45 monthly plan (on top of the normal $69/month plus $20 for the 2 other lines), maybe I could. But its looking like now my days amongst the blackberry carrying brigade are numbered, barring any yet unforseen events.
So anyone got any better ideas for a good date? At least for that hour or so after dinner before picking up the kids?

Keep your eyes peeled!

I don't remember why we ever got rid of that old basketball hoop we got for Jeffrey several years ago. Oh yeah, probably because it was taking up too much space, and wasn't exactly in the best condition anymore. But now we are wishing we had it back. Caleb now is the basketball junkie of the house and we don't have a hoop anymore for him to shoot on. So he has found a way to improvise. And trust me when I say it involves a lot of time, strength, and patience. He found a butterfly net and a regular size basketball as a substitute. The ball, as you can see, doesn't exactly fit in the net -- so the net gets kind of heavy when the ball lands on top. And you have to hold the net at just the right angle and height or there will be complaints.
So we've been looking around for a used (or otherwise inexpensive) little tykes basketball hoop for our little tyke. ..... so if you see one around (or have one you don't want anymore). Let us know. We just don't want to pay $45-50 for a new one. We'd gladly pay $20 though for a decent used one.
Its a good thing we are getting a 2-for-1 deal on Tae kwon do classes. Caleb is getting pretty good at all the kicks and moves and stuff, even though we only enrolled Jeffrey is in the classes. Caleb is pretty good at catch imitating others. So we really have to watch ourselves!