With the success that they had been having in all of the other dates Tristan had decided to do something a bit more daring. The way that the pottery date had gone from a near disaster, to unbelievably funny chaos. Making him feel brave enough to try something unexpected.
He should have known then that he was pushing things a bit too far. But he had just been so excited to share yet another memory with Ariel that he had looked up the activity online, and had decided that it was the best thing for them. As it turned out riding a hot air balloon was not the best thing for them.
At least it did not seem to be so for Ariel. She did not look enthused at all to be in a giant basket.
With all of the other dates that he had picked, he had seen Ariel look skeptical. But once they had begun and she had really dug in. All of the wariness simply gone away.
