At what point do you start looking forward to summer vacation? We’re in full spring break mode, but we’re all about planning out our summer. Yes, we still have 2 months of school left, but hey, we all know that when school starts up again in a week it will only be a formality. We’re all done, aren’t we? The kids are over it… the parents are over it. The last 2 months of school is a vast wasteland where nobody wants to be. Basically, we’re all just counting the days to summer.
Each year we take a 10-day summer vacation. Not too short, not too long. If it weren’t for our summer vacations, I would never have even started a blog. Yes, our Route 66 trip through California and Arizona is where it all began. By the way, it’s an awesome trip if you haven’t done it before.
We’ve been on road trips and plane trips, but we try and see places we’ve never been… or at least, expose the kids to places they’ve never been.
We’ve done the West Coast, East Coast and Wyoming/Yellowstone. We’ve done Vegas, Arizona and Hawaii. This year we’ll be rockin’ the Carolinas. North and South to be exact. What am I most looking forward to? The food, of course. My mouth is watering for some fried green tomatoes and some down home NC BBQ.
Between the end of school and the start of our vacation, I’m trying to figure out what to do with the kids. We don’t really do camp. We’ve tried it, but with 3 kids it’s crazy expensive. Temera might do 2 weeks of Show Choir Camp, and we’re thinking of sending Amanda to do a week of Surf Camp. Lauryn? The jury is still out on her. She wants to do Surf Camp too, but then it gets completely unaffordable again. I don’t know how people do it… if we could afford summer camp, we could afford private school. And we can’t. So we don’t.
So, what kinds of things do you do with your kids during the summer? Do they go to day camp? Sleepaway camp? Stay home and bother the hell out of you? I have a feeling we’ll be using our season passes to Magic Mountain/Hurricane Harbor until they completely wear out.
