I met this girl through a friend a couple weeks ago and we instantly hit it off. We went out once last week for drinks and appetizers and eventually made it back to my place where we watched Netflix and just made out a bit. I think it went really well and she made it clear that she liked me too. At this point I’m pretty interested in this girl and would like to get to know her more.

We have a date planned for hiking for a couple hours next week and I was thinking of bringing her out to a real dinner afterwards but I’m not sure if this would be too much. Otherwise I was thinking we could grab ice cream or something after hiking. We would probably go back to my place again from there. However she doesn’t get off of work until 5pm so it might make for a late night if we go for dinner.

Am I overthinking this? I can tell she is pretty into me since she’s been texting me fairly frequently already. Which leads to my other question: is texting too much a bad thing this early on? Some days it feels like there’s 50 texts going back and forth and I’m worried this might drain the sense of excitement, as much as I enjoy talking to her.