Date Ideas to Warm Your Heart

January 23, 2015 by nancyrose9 1 Comment

Staring out the window at trees wearing only half of their leaves, while sipping hot Darjeeling tea, I am almost fooled into believing it is cold outside.  While it is January and my friends further north have been dealing with freezing temperatures for a few weeks, it is a comfy 79 degrees where I live.  Although it is expected to get cooler on the weekend, it will still be a far cry from feeling like winter.  And yet, I yearn to do something different for fun, something that I wouldn’t do in the middle of summer.

Heart carved from ice I found at the attraction: ICE! featuring the Nutcracker at the Gaylord Palms Orlando

Whether you are someplace cold or in a tropical climate, your romantic life can grow stale, if you don’t try something new once in a while.  The following winter date ideas offer some suggestions of things you can do with your spouse during the colder months.  Although a few of these require snow, many of these suggestions can be carried out regardless of the climate in which you reside.

1. Enjoy a coffee tasting. Go on a search for the perfect cup, either by going to different coffee shops and sampling the different types or buying several flavors and brewing them at home. The same thing works just as well with tea. A few years ago, my husband and I signed up for a tea seminar and tasting. Not only did we learn about all of the different kinds of tea, we had fun finding out which ones we both liked and joking about the ones that were awful!
2. Take a drive to the nearest city and search out a little culture by going to a concert, museum, play, or art gallery.
3. Go ice skating, sledding, have a snowball fight, build a snowman, or make snow angels followed by hot chocolate.
4. Rent movies with a winter theme like, Trans-Siberian, North Face, Grumpy Old Men, Fargo, Into the White, Whiteout, Love Actually, Frozen, or Doctor Zhivago, and snuggle up under a blanket with your spouse.
5. Go to a comedy club.
6. Warm up in some hot springs or a hot tub.
7. Go to a hockey game.
8. Head to a ski resort for the afternoon and take snowboarding lessons or go snowshoeing.
9. Go antiquing or visit thrift stores or used bookstores in search of special treasures.
10. Take a cooking class together. If none are offered in your area, there are several really good courses available on DVD that you can order online. Just pop in the DVD, have some fun preparing the food with each other, light some candles, and enjoy the fruits of your labor.

This week, give one of these ideas a try or come up with your own favorite winter date.  I’d love to hear how it goes.  Please leave a comment or email me at nancy.rose9@comcast.net