subject: Catch4catch Com Jewish Dating Service (100% Free) [print this page] We all know the usual venues for first dates; a coffee house, quiet restaurant, pleasant walking route, or lounge. While none of these are very creative ideas for a first date, they often turn out to be the best backdrops to break the ice. These are often good choices for a second date as well. The calm, non-threatening, subdued atmosphere of a caf, lounge. museum exhibit, botanical garden, or park seems say to daters, This is a comfortable atmosphere for learning a little more about each other.
What about date number threeor four? By then, many couples sense they are beginning to relate to each other. Theyll continue to need opportunities for purposeful conversations, but at the same time they should be spending time together in ways that are fun, interesting, or unusual. This is how they begin to build a history of experiences, see each other in different situations, and develop different dimensions to what they are learning about each other. Great date ideas for this stage of dating sometimes require a little planning, but none of them are expensive, artificial, or even outrageous. They can be as simple as:
1. Enjoy a day-long hike or bike trip. Select the route, rent or supply the bikes, and divide up responsibility for the courses, beverages, and paper goods for a gourmet dairy or meat picnic. This long date is a good opportunity to observe each other's moods over the course of a day.
2. Find a sports-related activity you both enjoy, such as tennis, white-water rafting, bowling, horseback riding, ice skating,or canoeing.
3. Enlist your date's help shopping for a gift for a mutual friend, or for one of your own friends or relatives.
4. Select a nearby historic site you're both curious about, read up on it, and take a tour of it together so that you can share what you know and gain insight into each other's perspective.
5. Spend half a day fishing and picnicking from a charter boat, off a pier, or at a lake.
6. Volunteer together for an afternoon at a soup kitchen or other community chesed project.
7. Attend an air show or car rally.
8. Be a kid again. Enjoy a day at an amusement park or a hands-on science museum. You can even take along a child you know and together explore the world through a kid's eyes.
9. Spend a Sunday afternoon at a flea/farmers market. Give each of yourselves an imaginary budget and see who can find the most unusual itemor buy fresh produce youll use to cook a meal together that evening.
10. Find out what books your local book club will be reading, choose one you each want to read, and finish it in time to go to the book review meeting together.
11. Together, visit an elderly relative or someone one of you knows who is a shut-in.
12. Host a "game night" for the two of you and some friends and enjoy a mix of games of trivia, strategy and skill.
13. Visit a magic shop and ask the owners to show you the secrets of the magic tricks for sale. Buy some of the tricks to entertain your friends children (or your own friends), or as a gift for a child whos fascinated by magic.
14. Go apple or berry picking and bake each other a pie with the fruits of your labors
