What would you do if you got summers off?

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Permalink Reply by Tom Davis on July 4, 2009 at 8:24am

Well everybody must be out there doing those things since there hasn't been a reply after almost 12 hours.

I would probably do the same things I did in Jr. High and High School: Read, ride my bike, and play guitar, to which I would add travel.

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Permalink Reply by Jane Howard on July 4, 2009 at 10:52pm

Summers during junior high and high school were busy with 4-H, babysitting jobs, cruising Main Street in a small Indiana town, helping can or freeze hundreds of fruit and veggies with my grandmother, and of course, discussing boys! Don't ever remember being bored. Now my summer-off fantasies include spending hours each week at the IMA, the Eiteljorg.....all those wonderful local resources that I don't have time to visit during the week (and avoid on weekends). My garden would be expanded and properly weeded. I'd become a summer volunteer for Indy Reads. I'd spend hours browsing the library and bookstores. I'd finally organize those six boxes of genealogy research. I'd stay up all night to finish a good book!

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Permalink Reply by Amy Magan on July 5, 2009 at 10:48am

It wasn't so long ago that I wasn't working summers. And we spent lots of time at the pool. I read books and took the kids to the free summer movies. All of which I would still do. I also would have planted a garden this year and spent my time working in the garden, enjoying cooking with the fruits (and veggies) of my labor.

If I had all the time AND money in the world, I'd spend the summer at a lake cottage in a northern state, Michigan or Minnesota maybe? Oh, Maine! Yes, I would summer in Maine.

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Permalink Reply by Cindy Dunston Quirk on July 5, 2009 at 2:11pm

First off, I'd head to Italy for about 4 weeks. I'd cook,garden, eat, sleep and walk around little villages while becoming fluent in Italian from Italians. Then I would travel to Germany to see my niece in Frieburg. By then, her new baby will be born so I could spend some quality bonding time with the baby, my niece Shannon and Thomas, her husband.

Then I would come back home, to America, and play golf and swim for 4 weeks. All golf, all day...in Indiana and Myrtle Beach. Okay, mostly in South Carolina. It is the lure of the sea and seafood. I can't help it.

Following my golf adventure, I'd head to Atlanta, Georgia and spend time with my mom. Since Daddy died last year, I want to spend as much time with her as I am able. We would talk, garden, cook and just sit and be quiet. Just being with her is such a joy.

I think that about takes up the entire 12 weeks.

I do remember summers going on forever when I was little. The days never ended and summers felt like they were about a year long. But I could sense and smell the change in the air and knew it was time to head back to school.

Times were much more simple then. Riding bikes, sticker wars, a new pair of Keds, swimming for hours on end and the freedom to come and go all day long...as long as we told Mama where we were going and when we would be back. We never thought about getting into any trouble. And we slept like logs because we were on the run outside all day long. No computers, no video games, no worries. Just playing and being a kid. That was my job.

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Permalink Reply by Phillip Archer on July 5, 2009 at 9:06pm

Somewhat similar to Cindy I would tour Europe, visiting the many places I have dreamt of for years; Vienna, London, Germany (In general), Rome, Paris, Venice, Scotland, Ireland. There are many more unlisted, but you get the idea, right? I still dream of experiencing more.

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