\u201cSo, what movie should we watch?\u201d The dreaded question. Twenty minutes of \u201cmmm, maybe\u201d later, you settle on an old episode of \u201cThe Office\u201d and call it good.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n If that sounds a little too familiar, this post is for you. With so many of us having date night at home, now seems like a good time to throw out a few other options that look beyond streaming TV and movie queues. I chatted with a few friends, did a little looking around on the web, and came up with a few ways you and your loved one can hang out, chat, and simply settle into a great evening together.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Verbs like <\/span>bake<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>make<\/span><\/i>, and <\/span>do<\/span><\/i> are a great place to start. Even at home, there are plenty of ways to get active together. A little searching online will turn up a number of ideas, as numerous website, and brands are offering all kinds of free content that can get you moving and doing things. (Related, if the two of you want to learn a language or take a class together, <\/span>check out my previous article on personal and professional development from home<\/span><\/a>.) Here are a few ideas:<\/span><\/p>\n Hop into the kitchen, crank up some tunes, and whip up some comfort food, like cheesecake-stuffed chocolate chunk banana bread muffins or some cinnamon sugar apple cake. This <\/span>article from <\/span>Huffpost<\/span><\/i> has those recipes and more<\/span><\/a>, which are bound to taste even better when you bake them together.<\/span><\/p>\n Practically all of us have a camera thanks to our phones, and as of this writing Nikon is offering their <\/span>photography classes for free at Nikon School Online<\/span><\/a>. While some of the classes focus on some of their cameras and equipment, they also have general courses on photographing kids and pets, photography fundamentals, and macro photography too.<\/span><\/p>\n Quite on the other end of the spectrum from movie night is workout night, or afternoon, or whenever. Grabbing a workout is not only great for your body, it\u2019s great for your head. <\/span>Life Time has all kinds of workouts available for free online,<\/span><\/a> including cardio, strength, and yoga for all levels. There are even some family courses too.<\/span><\/p>\n Yoga with Adriene is great. She\u2019s been featured in numerous fitness blogs and her YouTube channel is well over 7 million subscribers. <\/span>Check out her free yoga sessions.<\/span><\/a> Her approach is quite unique, with sessions built not only around fitness goals, but moods and headspaces as well. Sessions range anywhere from 5 to 45 minutes, with plenty of options for beginners, so you can take your pick.<\/span><\/p>\n Okay, so nothing beats the real thing. But it\u2019s nice to know that even if some of the world\u2019s greatest museums are closed right now, we can take some pretty amazing guided tours on our laptops or tablets together. Here are just a few of the many\u2014a simple search for virtual museum tours will turn up plenty.<\/span><\/p>\n The Louvre, expansive as it is, hosts not one but seven different virtual tours of its museum. The <\/span>virtual tour page for the Louvre<\/span><\/a> offers a number of exhibitions, along with a virtual tour of Egyptian antiquities and several other online resources for exploring its collections.<\/span><\/p>\n The two of you can <\/span>virtually stroll along the Guggenheim\u2019s famous spiral walkway<\/span><\/a> and take in its Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and Contemporary art along the way. The museum has further options for the two of you to explore its collections and history from home here on the \u201c<\/span>Guggenheim from Home<\/span><\/a>\u201d page as well.<\/span><\/p>\n The website for <\/span>Madrid\u2019s Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum houses 87 virtual tours <\/span><\/a>\u00a0(yes, 87!) featuring greats like Gauguin, El Greco, Van Gogh, along with the work of American Impressionists, Pop artists, Surrealists, and more.<\/span><\/p>\n Seattle\u2019s Museum of Flight currently hosts the first presidential jet plane, a Boeing 707-120, delivered for President Eisenhower, which you can visit as part of the <\/span>flight museum\u2019s 3D tours<\/span><\/a>. It\u2019s one of the many classic planes you can climb inside, along with NASA\u2019s Space Shuttle trainer. The site is loaded with galleries<\/span><\/p>\n If you want to get away from screens entirely, game night provides a great escape\u2014and plenty of time to simply sit together, chat, and laugh as you play. We have plenty of gamers here at McAfee, who are among the many who have revitalized tabletop gaming in recent years by looking for fresh ways to connect with friends and family after a screen-heavy day.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n If you haven\u2019t picked up a board game in ages, \u201cgame night\u201d might conjure up sessions of Monopoly or Clue. That\u2019s changed. The games that today\u2019s designers have whipped up during the recent renaissance will come as a surprise\u2014and offer you two some together time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n This one is beautiful. Inspired by the Moorish tiles of Portugal, <\/span>Azul<\/span><\/a> is a game of pattern placement with wonderfully wrought tiles of its own. Completing specific patterns and sets racks up points but wasted tiles \u201cfall to the floor\u201d and cost you points in return. It\u2019s tactile, colorful, and lends itself to conversation. You can knock out a game in 45 minutes or less and it plays great with two people.<\/span><\/p>\n Take a head-to-head card game, an adventurous archeological expedition theme, and mix it in with quick-playing rules that are easy to teach, and you get <\/span>Lost Cities<\/span><\/a>. It\u2019s an excellent game for couples because there\u2019s just enough suspense and strategy to the play to make it fun\u2014but not so deep that you find yourself sitting in silence. It pairs well with your favorite music and relaxing beverage of choice.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n If you like a little more competition in your games, this game of building a railway empire in 19<\/span>th<\/span> Century North America might be your thing. <\/span>Ticket to Ride<\/span><\/a> (and its <\/span>many spin-offs<\/span><\/a>) another game that you can learn in about 15 minutes, where you build routes that connect cities for quick points (like Los Angeles to Phoenix) and then string together stretches of connections for even bigger points (like Los Angeles to New York).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Modeled after the bucolic vistas of southern France, <\/span>Carcassonne<\/span><\/a> is a tile placement game where players collectively build a landscape full of cities, fields, roads, and cloisters\u2014and claim points as they\u2019re completed. It\u2019s almost like a puzzle that you build together, with lots of strategy and risk-taking along the way. Half the fun is watching the map take shape as everyone takes their turn, and no two games end up looking alike.<\/span><\/p>\n On a side note, it may be tough to go shopping in your area right now. However, many local game stores and game cafes support online shopping, which is a fine opportunity to support a small business in your area. Likewise, you can find these and other games at larger online game stores and ecommerce retailers.<\/span><\/p>\n Whenever you hop online for that cooking class, workout,\u00a0or tour, <\/span>consider using protection that keeps you safer while you\u2019re surfing<\/span><\/a>\u2014all so you can steer you clear of sketchy links, misclicks, typos, or bad downloads that could drop adware, spyware, or viruses on your device. Likewise, if any of these ideas lead you to a quick online shopping trip, take a moment to brush up on your security smarts with our latest article about <\/span>online shopping scams and how to avoid them<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n To stay updated on all things\u00a0<\/span>McAfee<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and for more resources on staying secure from home, follow\u00a0<\/span>@McAfee_Home\u00a0<\/span><\/a>on Twitter, listen to our podcast\u00a0<\/span>Hackable?<\/span><\/i><\/a>, and \u2018Like\u2019 us on\u00a0<\/span>Facebook.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Date Night #FromHome ideas \u201cSo, what movie should we watch?\u201d The dreaded question. 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