# My Labor Day weekend will rock. What about yours? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 27, 2019, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-labor-day-weekend-will-rock-what-about-yours/839324 "2019-08-27T18:45:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-labor-day-weekend-will-rock-what-about-yours/839324/1 "2019-08-27T18:45:37Z")
Staring off with a Sting concert. I’ve seen Sting lots of times but this concert is [with the Utah Philharmonic to benefit Zion NP.](https://www.sltrib.com/artsliving/2019/02/12/sting-will-perform-with/) Coming back we will visit a place I’ve wanted to visit for years - [the Black Canyon of the Gunnison](https://www.5280.com/2019/05/a-first-timers-guide-to-black-canyon-of-the-gunnison-national-park/). Anyone else doing anything exciting during the upcoming 3-day weekend? ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-labor-day-weekend-will-rock-what-about-yours/839324/2 "2019-08-28T01:21:46Z")
If the weather cooperates, I’ll make my first attempt at photographing a dressage event. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-labor-day-weekend-will-rock-what-about-yours/839324/3 "2019-08-28T02:27:26Z")
Be spending it with my kids and grandkids out east of here. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-labor-day-weekend-will-rock-what-about-yours/839324/4 "2019-08-28T02:55:55Z")
Mid-daughter and her boys and 2 Chihuahuas will roll in from NewOrleans for a long weekend. The lil’wrekker will be in with boyfriend in tow.Should be a busy few days. The most exciting thing will be the Cats dealing with the yappers. Oh, joy! ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-labor-day-weekend-will-rock-what-about-yours/839324/5 "2019-08-28T03:13:50Z")
Next week is our 10th anniversary, so Friday afternoon we are off to Madrid for a week! I am excited - other than an overnight layover on the way back from Morocco when we were both too sick to go more than 100 yards from a bathroom, I haven’t been there since I was a broke 19-year-old college student. I am very much looking forward to getting to do some of the touristy things that I didn’t do my entire semester studying there because I was too broke. Also, I am looking forward to some non-institutional food. Any and all travel recs appreciated! ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-labor-day-weekend-will-rock-what-about-yours/839324/6 "2019-08-28T07:07:56Z")
Madrid has my favorite theater in the world, [Circo Price](https://www.teatrocircoprice.es/). As the name indicates, it used to be a circus; they offer classes in juggling, clowning and other circus arts, the old pictures set in the external hallway include Pinito del Oro on the trapeze and gents in tailcoats on the tight rope. The “stage” is the circus ring. They often have concerts, dance troupes… real unusual, and always real cool. ---
**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-labor-day-weekend-will-rock-what-about-yours/839324/7 "2019-08-28T10:41:41Z")
I must really be doing retirement right. I had no idea it was the coming weekend until seeing this thread. Knowing that, I’ll stay home to avoid crowds, smoke a brisket or something, and celebrate knowing the wally’s and fools will be off the lake until Memorial weekend 2020. Mine won’t rock, in the sense you’re describing. But it will mark that marvelous entry into fall, when the chillun’s are safely locked in class all day, their parents are enslaved to school games and activities, and the parks and lakes are mine again. Now they will become places of solitude and peace. So I will celebrate it. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-labor-day-weekend-will-rock-what-about-yours/839324/8 "2019-08-28T11:19:04Z")
I’ve got to mow the yard, since we were out of town last weekend. And there’s always laundry. Since the beginning of this year, I’ve only worked Tues-Weds-Thurs - this’ll be just another Monday off, except I’ll get a few hours of paid holiday leave because my company rocks! ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-labor-day-weekend-will-rock-what-about-yours/839324/9 "2019-08-28T12:19:18Z")
Our annual weekend on Cape Cod, cut a little shorter this year since we can’t go down until early Saturday morning. Biking, beaches, and seafood; plus the people watching and shopping of P-Town. And traffic. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-labor-day-weekend-will-rock-what-about-yours/839324/10 "2019-08-28T12:27:23Z")
Not a damn thing! I’ve been away the past five weekends, & overseas for work for 2½ weeks. I’m also away the next three weekends. I’m beat up & the house is a mess. I’ve begged off everything to stay home, so naps & cleaning. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-labor-day-weekend-will-rock-what-about-yours/839324/11 "2019-08-28T12:45:34Z")
Looks like **Eva Luna** wins the thread! I’m afraid we’ll be hunkering down for another bloody hurricane. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-labor-day-weekend-will-rock-what-about-yours/839324/12 "2019-08-28T12:47:29Z")
Dorian will be making my weekend gray. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-labor-day-weekend-will-rock-what-about-yours/839324/13 "2019-08-28T12:54:54Z")
I will be on a five day motorcycle trip across several southern states. ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-labor-day-weekend-will-rock-what-about-yours/839324/14 "2019-08-28T13:25:37Z")
I have a 4-Day weekend, starting Friday. I’ll probably just spend it around the house. My job is sending me to Croatia for a month on Tuesday. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-labor-day-weekend-will-rock-what-about-yours/839324/15 "2019-08-28T16:06:03Z")
No big plans for the weekend except having some good BBQ, probably from Smoking Pig–love the “wolf turds” there! Now that I’m retired I have the option to hit the road _after_ Labor Day when the summer crowds have died down. > [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > Coming back we will visit a place I’ve wanted to visit for years - [the Black Canyon of the Gunnison](https://www.5280.com/2019/05/a-first-timers-guide-to-black-canyon-of-the-gunnison-national-park/). I’ve been several times, the North Rim is definitely worth the trip if you have the time. If I make it out there again, I definitely want to drive down to the river on East Portal Rd. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-labor-day-weekend-will-rock-what-about-yours/839324/16 "2019-08-28T20:38:21Z")
Let’s see, my 3 day weekend will include: -mowing the lawn -bush hogging the pastures -moving logs away from the fences so we can let the goats roam 2 pastures -any necessary fence repairs to above -trimming the hedges -pressure washing the porch and sidewalk -a round of golf -a family get together, including a visit from my out-of-state son and his new girlfriend -harvesting various varieties of peppers, tomatoes, eggplant and okra -filling in the holes where I repaired 2 pasture hydrants So, pretty much nothin’. ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-labor-day-weekend-will-rock-what-about-yours/839324/17 "2019-08-28T21:13:14Z")
The alternator in my wife’s car went out this week, so I’m going to spend some part of one of the weekend days swapping that out for a new one. I hate working on cars and while I know how to do it, I’d rather scub 100 toilets with a toothbrush than change that damn alternator. Additionally the transmission in my car is on its last legs so I need to start seriously shopping for a new-to-me car. Which I also hate. Long weekends are a nice time to drive through the used car lots and do a bit of window shopping because there’s nobody there to hassle you. More pleasantly, I’m hope to fire up the charcoal grill and make… I dunno yet. Hamburgers are a favorite here but we just had those a couple weeks ago so I might grab some steaks or chicken thighs and grill those instead. Maybe do a salmon fillet. The kids go back to school on Monday (one is going into middle school and the other will be a freshman in high school) and I have a new boss starting on Tuesday so I have this nagging feeling in the back of my head that this weekend will be the calm before the storm. ---
**Author:** ![Trancephalic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trancephalic/32/380_2.png) [@Trancephalic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trancephalic)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-labor-day-weekend-will-rock-what-about-yours/839324/18 "2019-08-29T16:36:51Z")
Labor Day is the anniversary of my hit-and-run incident. I’ll be spending it like every year hoping that ASSHOLE chokes on his/her steak and potato salad. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-labor-day-weekend-will-rock-what-about-yours/839324/19 "2019-08-29T16:42:16Z")
Saturday-Doing my shift at the food pantry. Sunday-Attending a wedding. Monday-Work as usual. ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-labor-day-weekend-will-rock-what-about-yours/839324/20 "2019-08-29T16:51:08Z")
Going to the BYU - Utah game tonight, having a bunch of friends over for dinner tomorrow, Saturday will be staying home with the kiddo while the wife gets a massage, Sunday will be the normal church routine, Monday will be at a water park with the in-laws. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-labor-day-weekend-will-rock-what-about-yours/839324.md?page=2)