Thursday, February 11, 2010
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Photogenic: Alycia Futrelle and Matt Ovington spent their first date picnicking on a warm January day at Clinton Lake.
Alycia Futrelle and Matt Ovington took pictures, hiked and treaded carefully onto the iced-over water of Clinton Lake. Futrelle, Overland Park senior, had finally worked up the courage to strike up a conversation with Ovington, Chicago senior, one day in their Spanish class, which resulted in the picnic on this 60-degree January day. Later that night, the couple met up again and hung out at Futrelle’s apartment until 4 a.m.
Futurelle says she was supposed to go over to a bonfire Ovington was having with friends, but he ended up coming to her place. “We smoked hookah and listened to music. I taught him how to blow smoke rings. I remember not feeling tired at all because the time felt like it had gone by so fast.”
Futrelle says she wanted to impress Ovington by making him a batch of cookies, but nerves got the best of her baking skills. After three batches that came out like hockey pucks, she decided to give him store-bought cookies. Futrelle says Ovington told her they were delicious, but she later found the cookies untouched on his desk weeks later. “I’m not the best baker in the world, but that was one of the first times I completely failed at baking. He still decided to date me, thankfully,” Futrelle says.
The couple likes outdoor activities and going to local shows in Lawrence, though Ovington says they can find fun in anything. “Even if we are just grocery shopping we have a fun time doing that,” he says.
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