# So what are YOU doing this summer? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 13, 2005, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-doing-this-summer/308154 "2005-06-13T22:54:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-doing-this-summer/308154/21 "2005-06-14T12:53:31Z")
Star Wars! Star Wars! Star Wars! Star Wars! Star Wars! I’ve seen Revenge of the Sith nine times so far. I’ve been seeing it at least once a week. It is the summer of Star Wars! ---
**Author:** ![Dorjan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorjan/32/12440_2.png) [@Dorjan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorjan)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-doing-this-summer/308154/22 "2005-06-14T13:06:34Z")
It’s been a busy summer so far. The wife and I have already been camping, white water rafting, and on two long motorcycle trips to Toronto/Upper Ontario (over 1900 miles of riding :eek: ). We have trackdays scheduled in June, July & August at Nelson’s Ledges, Mid-Ohio and Beaverrun. We have a racing school scheduled in September w/ École de Pilotage at Shannonville, ON. As AMA Field reps we’ll also be working two weekends in July for the Vintage Motorcycle Days and the AMA Superbike races. In between all of that motorcycle stuff, lots of grilling in the backyard, tending the house/yard, visiting family and being visited. I also hope to squeeze in a trip to Cedar Point somehow! ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-doing-this-summer/308154/23 "2005-06-14T13:36:31Z")
Holland, MI trip to see a friend. Possibly Cedar Point. Camping with friends. Freeloading off of anyone who owns a pool. Oh, and yardwork and drudgery. ---
**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-doing-this-summer/308154/24 "2005-06-14T13:44:14Z")
Big camping trip with the family (Ok, RV-ing; for you purists) New Mexico (Rt66), Colorado, WY (Yellowstone), Utah/Arizona (Monument Valley). Other than that, school, building a deck (wife wants this for anniv), & entertaining the kids. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-doing-this-summer/308154/25 "2005-06-14T14:54:57Z")
Summer is going to exhaust me, but i’ll love it nonetheless. It’s the in-between time when I manage to cut back to “normal” 8-9 hour days until mid-July when the real work for the next school year gets me back to those 12 hour days. In addition to preparing to move out of one house, into another, conveniently timed to happen just after school starts (“honey, hand me the tequila and valium…”). In between all that, we’ll manage a couple long weekends, and throw a massive good bye to the house I grew up in party in July. Oh, and take bus kid back to college in Ohio in August. But there will be no snow to shovel, and no winter cotas involved, so it will all be good. ---
**Author:** ![Aangelica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@Aangelica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aangelica)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-doing-this-summer/308154/26 "2005-06-14T15:10:59Z")
Getting married. Taking the SO to meet my parents in Alaska (from New York) because my parents have expressed the desire to meet him _before_ the wedding. That is all. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-doing-this-summer/308154/27 "2005-06-14T15:21:19Z")
My 25th wedding anniversary is July 4th. Hubby and I have talked about possibly taking a short trip, but even if that doesn’t happen, we always have fireworks on our anniversary. We live right beside a river which is the site of the area’s largest fireworks display, so we can sit in our yard and watch the sky light up. ---
**Author:** ![susan\_foster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@susan\_foster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan_foster)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-doing-this-summer/308154/28 "2005-06-14T15:45:42Z")
Standard family trip to Maine in August. But keep in mind when I say standard I mean: 20+ people in one house no TV or phone beach right down the road This is the 25th anniversary of when we first stated doing this, so it’s a very cool year. I am going to be doing the full 2 weeks, which I haven’t been able to do in 10 years! (Darn working for a living). In the middle of the two weeks is our family reunion - but as more and more people come to stay in the house, the reunion ends up being 2 extra people actually showing up for the day. 25 years - 4 generations have stayed in the house (although 5 generations have actually stayed in the town). My grandparents met there; their ashes are scattered in the forest on the edge of town. We’ve had a wedding, a funeral, but no births. Susan ---
**Author:** ![FaerieBeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e95f7d/32.png) [@FaerieBeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FaerieBeth)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-doing-this-summer/308154/29 "2005-06-14T15:46:43Z")
> [@Miss Purl McKnittington](#): > > Oooh, **FaeireBeth** , can you post pictures when you’re done? I’d love to see the dresses and the field pavilion sounds really interesting. Are you just attaching “skirts” to it? Do you know what direction you’re headed with for the dresses? I’d be glad to post pictures when I am done! As for direction, well, the paintings on this [page](http://www.raveness.com/renaissance/16thCitalianrenaissancedress.html) are fairly close to what I’m doing. I typed 14th above in my post, but meant 15th…darn fingers. I may end up with something later in period as I work with the materials and see what style I like best, but I won’t get as ornate as some of the late period Italian stuff. I don’t have that much money to sink into my hobby! On the linked page the images from Francesco del Cossa are the types I am attempting, although I won’t be using any of the commercial patterns shown. I do all my work from scratch. Here’s a good link to a page with one made up: [Italian Ren](http://lynnmcmasters.com/miditalian.html) For the pavilion: It’s going to end up being like a mini center-hub [pavilion](http://home.adelphi.edu/~sbloch/sca/tents/kuijt.article/). It will be perfect for setting up next to the list field! BTW- Thanks for the great link to the corset article! ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-doing-this-summer/308154/30 "2005-06-14T15:54:38Z")
I’m flying into Hanoi in Vietnam on the 2nd July. Going with two friends and meeting two more there. Then spending three weeks moving down the country\* to get to Ho Chi Minh (Saigon) from which I’m flying home on the 25th July. 3 weeks with no work and lots of Rice Whiskey and beer. Lovely. - depending on how things go we may make a trip to Cambodia and miss most of Vietnam but that is very much a back up plan as we’ve already done Cambodia already but would like to go back. ---
**Author:** ![yellowval](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-doing-this-summer/308154/31 "2005-06-14T15:56:48Z")
Right now, we’re trying to paint our house. If it would stop raining for five minutes, we might be able to finish priming. I hear July and August are going to be dry. :rolleyes: We’ll be doing our usual things—fishing, boating, drinking beer around the campfire. I hope to make it to “the cabin” at least a couple of times. I don’t usually get vacation during the summer because I’m too busy at work, but I’m hoping we’ll be able to sneak off to Deadwood for a few days in August or September. ---
**Author:** ![Imbrium](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/13edae/32.png) [@Imbrium](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imbrium)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-doing-this-summer/308154/32 "2005-06-14T21:33:34Z")
I’m resuming classes at school, trying to learn to knit, and finding a part time job. > [@MsPrufrock](#): > > I’m moving to across the country to South Carolina to start graduate school! Eeep! So excited!!! Where are you going to school, if you don’t mind me asking? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-doing-this-summer/308154.md?page=1)