TL;DR version: FI's bored with sitting at home all day; what are some fun things we can get out and do inexpensively?
Long, useless-info-filled version: FI is not used to not working. He has worked - in a busy, pointy-object-filled kitchen, no less - since 2007.
His last day at work was July 27th. He spent the week after that moving out of his apartment and getting settled here with us. We went to the beach with my family the week after that. Now we're in the third week, and he's going a wee bit cabin-feverish. He's dropped resumes at two restaurants. At the first, he spoke with the owner, who also owns two other restaurants and manages our local country club (so I guess that technically takes the total to five?). The "interview" was haphazard, and a food rep who was there seemed to do most of the interviewing. At the second, the owner had stepped out and wasn't expected back any time soon but a front-of-house employee left his resume with a note on the owner's desk and FI is going to try and catch him tomorrow and actually speak with him. I know he was intending to drop a third resume off today, although I don't know if he got around to it.
Now, I'm not getting involved in the job search. He's generally a big boy and can get a job for himself. BUT I'm worried that he's getting stir crazy with all the extra off time. He's a naturally busy sort of person, and he doesn't like too much downtime. He sort-of-complained in Florida about how much downtime there was, because we tend to just sit around in the condo or by the pool and only have a few Things planned for our trips. But being new to the area, and farther away from civilization than he's been recently used to, combined with being temporarily unemployed, is making it hard for him to get out and waste time doing things.
I've tried to think of a couple of inexpensive things for us to do (what with him being unemployed ATM and my cash flow being pretty small) but I'm not coming up with much. There's a lake and a neat state park nearby, but nothing super exciting, and neither of those are really up FI's alley. I took him out to dinner Friday and wound up accidentally breaking myself for the week, haha
so something cheaper than dinner and also more interesting would be nice as well. I know this is something that local people would be able to answer better, but I'm not really looking for super specific ideas, just maybe general suggestions if you've got'em.