Ideas for Skype dates?

Me and Molly are trying to think of things to do on Skype date and thought we'd ask here as most of you have been in our position at one time or another.

We've cooked, watched movies, done crafts, played dominoes and checkers (which I mostly lose  :\\\'( ) but wondered if anyone you had any other ideas? 

Many thanks in advance. Cheers, Jamie and Molly 

Read to each other?

If you have a webcam, one of the things that really comforted me when I missed Spence would be for him to set up the webcam before bedtime so I could watch him sleep. Kinda creepy, actually, now that I read it back, but it did make me feel closer to him.

Thanks Mort. We've not watched each other sleep (apart from when one of us drops off if it's late! ) but we do tuck each other in on occasions.

I didn't do this on Skype, but continuing with the sleeping theme, I'd call my now dh to have him talk me to sleep when I'd had a hard day.  We'd also ring to wake each other up rather than an alarm clock.  We'd watch tv sometimes.  Mostly we'd just tell each other about our days. 

This is one  my BF and I are thinking of doing : Chess. We're each considering getting a chess set, not expensive  but just something so each of us can have a board set up in an identical manner. Not to play the whole game at once...although of course you can. But to have it there, each make a move or two while we're on skype anyway... and then when we're NOT on Skype, it'll still be there. Kind of like a presence even while separated. If you have a webcam and can set it up near your computer, that'll make it even easier to coordinate moves, if not there's "chess language" to describe moves completely. Or use little sticky dots and assign names to the pieces, and numbers to the squares *g*

Having a 24/7 chess board is a great idea. The only downside I can see is that it'll probably be another game for Molly to beat me at 

If you have a webcam, one of the things that really comforted me when I missed Spence would be for him to set up the webcam before bedtime so I could watch him sleep. Kinda creepy, actually, now that I read it back, but it did make me feel closer to him.

That's not creepy, it's cute and can make you feel closer! 

That's not creepy, it's cute and can make you feel closer! 

Agreed! It was how Paul and I survived for a year and a half trying to get his immigration to the US...before we gave up and joined him in the UK instead. It was especially important to him after our daughter was born and he had to return to the UK. Once or twice he even called to say...she's moving...go take care of her now.

Another idea you might try for a virtual date is certain attractions have webcams setup in them (museums, parks and the like) perhaps you could visit one of these places together. For instance I know from my daughter that Seaworld and the San Diego Zoo both have 24 hour webcams.

Another idea might be to share music with one another. One time I actually called one of the radio stations in LA to dedicate a song to Paul. The DJ was so enthralled with our story that she actually delayed the transmission until the next night. She even wanted to know the time differences so he could listen. I was able to have Paul log on to their website which transmits their shows and hear it first thing when he woke up.

I was able to have Paul log on to their website which transmits their shows and hear it first thing when he woke up.

Now *that* is sweet!

My friend and I were frequent Skypers. One of my favorites was watching baseball together. It's only on Sundays and Wednesdays at 1am GMT in the UK (during season, of course!), but we would make hot dogs and sit on our respective sofas and watch the ball game together. Most annoyingly, he didn't have advert breaks like I did in the US and often I heard the audio from a play over Skype before I saw it on my own television! But it was fun nonetheless.

Douglas and I used to play a roleplaying game online together called elysium. Its http://elysium-rpg.com
It was nice because it was like a virtual world where we were both doing things as if it were real life.
We were a great team at that time. I miss playing the game. He still plays it though.
If you decide to check it out, his nic on there is Flax.

Anyways it was cool because you could actually be a family, have a life, run a shop, ect.. ect.. and it was pretty much like life.

I really loved that game.

I miss playing the game. He still plays it though.

Why dont you still play it too?

We mostly just talked, but I know one time we watched You've Got Mail together.

He also used to phone me in the mornings right before I'd get up for work 

We used to have movie night every week.  Sometimes we watched more than one movie over the course of the week, but we always watched at least one.  We played online games together (yahoo, Muds etc).  We window shopped for our future flat.  Did research together.

Mostly we just babbled to each other.   

Talk about future travel plans.....always fun...talk about the future when you will be able to delete IM off your PC...
send each other funny videos from youtube/liveleak/etc....

I love this thread.   All hail Skype, saver of LDRs everywhere!  WooO!

My boyfriend and I each have a public skype name (used for family/business/etc) and a private skype name, used only by each other.  The private names are set up to auto-answer calls and start video immediately.   (Not something you want anyone being able to do.)    We each take the laptops to bed at night, logged into our private names, and so if one of us is up and misses the other one, we can call just to peek in, without actually waking the other one up.

Is it a little weird?  Sure, people think so, but I love it.   I like being able to hear him snore when I'm far away.    The only downside is you have to get used to sleeping with a light on, but that's a small price to pay.

We watch movies a lot together, or surf the internet together.   But (here comes the nerdery) we mostly play Second Life together.   It's a 3D world where you can make a little avatar and walk around and do stuff together.   We have a little virtual house and we build things for in it.    We can sit on our digital couch and talk (like skype but with more to look at) and we can even dance together, or go out with other people we know.  I can make him a present and leave it on our table.   I can't do that with Skype!

And ok, it's a "game" and it's dorky, but you know what?  It lets us do so many things we couldn't do just in a chat window, and it's been wonderful for us to have a common space that is OURS when we're physically in different places.  HIGHLY recommended if you can swing the technical curve to getting involved.