Summer Traditions

[HoLLIs]

I am aware that spring just sprung, but I'm excited for the summer, not that the winter was too harsh and I live in Cleveland for christ sake. Granted, summers are a bit...warm, and the bug population is unbearable, but there are so many great things to do that other seasons really dont give you a chance to do.First off summer clothes will be needed so yeah. Not all the time but, I love shopping for summer clothes, especially in thrift stores..Then theres baseball. Some of the spring games arent that fun to go to because it can still be a bit chilly, but when the summer is officially here baseball games are ther best-GO INDIANS. The public zoo is free every monday and me and my mom go every chance we get. On really hot days we go down to the famous cuyahoga river or lake erie to cool off or read. But my all time favorite thing to do is hang out in Ohio City. I do all year round, but in the summer its extra alive. I go to the west side market get some homemade pizza or ice cream or maybe stop by one of the local resturants, and every Saturady they have a little thing called opened air market and they sale all types of little cool things and they always have live music...ITS THE ABSOLUTE GREATEST. A time to look foward to. What does everyone else like to do in the summer?

[jess]

Well here in Argentina is fall (I love fall) summer here can get too hot, not cool. Each year after school endded me and my college friends with reservate a few days before everybody returned to their homes and have a road trip to the coast! Really cool!
Then there's Christmas, yes christmas in summer.
I get to go home be with my family, and then of course there's Ice cream =) lol

[michelle_sw]

eating watermelon on my front porch

[ohnicolajoy]

I live in the UK, so, that time of year between the really, really rainy cold bit and the other really rainy cold bit typically goes like this:
At around Easter, (when you feel that you can take no more miserable grey days and are certainly going to emigrate to somewhere that does not suck) we are blessed with around a week (sometimes two) of fairly sunny, dry and pleasant weather. You may start to pack away jumpers (sweaters, USA) and other woolly clothing and go shopping for new floral, floaty numbers. Summer is here...yay!
Then it instantly returns to this endless greyness that we all know and refer to as British Summertime. Out come the recently banished woolly clothing. They're still necessary in the evenings, as are gloves. News reports claim another day or two of sunshine should be due around August and we are often promised an "Indian Summer" in a panicked, government sponsored attempt at keeping some English Natives here in the Country.
My summers are spent resenting the fact that I left my expensive, working umbrella in the pub and hating the cheap replacement I purchased out of bitterness. They are spent shivering in parks, clutching ice lollies with numb hands, convinced that if I go through the motions of what should constitute summer behaviour it will work magic. They are spent listening to old people reminisce the heatwaves of days gone by and promising myself, that when I have finished my Nursing Degree I definitely MUST emigrate to somewhere with sunshine.

[bbettie]

I'm so looking forward to summmmmmer!

Last summer we had thousands of fireflies (lightening bugs) spawn on our back porch grass area and in a huge tree next to our porch area, and all across the giant grass fairway. (We live on a golf course.)
And watching them flit around all aglow was simply heaven on earth.

[ohnicolajoy]

I'm so looking forward to summmmmmer!

Last summer we had thousands of fireflies (lightening bugs) spawn on our back porch grass area and in a huge tree next to our porch area, and all across the giant grass fairway. (We live on a golf course.)
And watching them flit around all aglow was simply heaven on earth.

That's it! I'm moving to there. Guess what? Its still raining here