<human>: Could you distill the essence of the text into 1-3 sentences?

My friend and I have known each other since freshman year of college, and this year when we began the semester both of us were just out of relationships. After spending the day together for the second day in a row I ended the night by kissing her. After this we went on several dates and were spending a ton of time together, and in that time we both found out that we'd had crushes on each other for a while. But it ended when she decided she didn't want to get into another relationship right away. I was fine with this and we continued to be friends hanging out at least once a week.

Now the semester has ended and it's been a couple of weeks since I've seen her so the other day I texted to see what was up. We chatted for a while until she mentioned that she was going to the local Christmas market in the next couple days with her little sister. After I said the Christmas market was cool because I'd seen it last year she said I could come too. I responded by joking about how fun going to the Christmas market with her and her sister sounded and said maybe. She immediately responded to clarify that "yes that was an invite" and that if I didn't want to go around with her sister we could go do something else christmas-y together, so I said I'd go.

I didn't think much about it at the time, but now that the day that we are going is coming up I can't help but wonder if she intends this to be a date. I would try to gauge the situation myself but I'm terrible at that. I would ask her directly, but I'm worried about coming off as someone that's spent the last semester pining over her because of our history. Basically I don't want to approach it as a date and then scare her off if I'm wrong, but I also don't want to assume it's not a date and ruin things by seeming disinterested.

Is there any really obvious way to tell if she thinks it's a date? Is it too weird and forward to ask her if it's supposed to be a date?
<bot>: Friend that I have a history with invited me to the local Christmas market and now I'm not sure if it's supposed to be a date.