4 Socially Distant Dates

by Lexi, Day-Riverside Branch

Have a crush? Want to hang out while maintaining your (and their) safety? Here are 4 socially distant dates to try out.
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Picnic in the Park

You’ll need a big blanket, your own individual lunches and your masks. Sitting on a picnic blanket, while still 6 feet apart, will give you ample room to gaze at each other and learn a little more about who you’re pining after. If you’d like to add some extra fun, bringing walkie talkies always leads to goofy (yet charming) games of hide, seek, giggle and flirt.

Online Gaming

What better way is there to get to know someone than discovering their gaming habits? Whether it’s working together (in your own homes) in co-op games or spying on each other in versus games, you’ll definitely get some of that interaction you’ve been waiting for. After all, if you can learn to tell if your SO is SUS, you'll end up knowing them pretty well.

Distant Dance

Make a collaborative playlist to listen to at the same time. Get together, throw your headphones on and try to guess what made your beau add each song to the list. You can dance in parking lots or lay on the grass (6 feet apart) and pretend you’re doing the most romantic thing of all, sharing headphones.

Virtual Escape Room

    Want to see how good of a couple you and your crush would make? Doing a Virtual Escape Room is an excellent way to see whether or not you make good teammates. These web-based escape rooms are conducted via Zoom and will definitely provide a dreamy opportunity to both work together and show off your smarts. Most of them cost a little money, but here is a free Minecraft Escape Room, Hogwarts Escape Room and even a romantic Romeo & Juliet Escape Room.

So go forth and get to know your crush! Remember to follow health department guidelines, wear masks and stay safe! (You can expose yourself to COVID through kissing, you know).

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