# Summer is here! Any cool vacation plans? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 3, 2006, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-is-here-any-cool-vacation-plans/363035 "2006-07-03T13:44:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-is-here-any-cool-vacation-plans/363035/21 "2006-07-03T20:30:22Z")
For 10 days at the beginning of August I’m going to visit the American I referred to in [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=364785) thread, in Los Angeles. Apparently, so far the wooing is working. 🙂 In theory, we’re going to be doing all sorts of fun things including surfing (which I’ve never done), Disney Land (which I’ve also never done), Sea World or the San Diego Zoo (where I’ve never been) and absolutely no shopping, whatsoever. I may have to start a “What to do in LA?” thread for suggestions, assuming, of course, that I actually let him out of the house… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-is-here-any-cool-vacation-plans/363035/22 "2006-07-03T20:43:53Z")
I’m going to Belgium for a chess tournament. 🙂 And to eat chips with mayonnaise… ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-is-here-any-cool-vacation-plans/363035/23 "2006-07-03T20:49:34Z")
> [@alice\_in\_wonderland](#): > > I may have to start a “What to do in LA?” thread for suggestions… 😃 DopeFest comes to mind… ---
**Author:** ![Lady\_Venom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9fc348/32.png) [@Lady\_Venom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lady_Venom)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-is-here-any-cool-vacation-plans/363035/24 "2006-07-03T21:31:19Z")
YES YES YES and we leave in less than 2 weeks. I’m a little excited! We are leaving Ottawa on July 15th@ 6:00 am, heading to Watertown, NY for some shopping, then making our way to Amherst, OH, staying there for 2 nights with visits to Cedar Pointe in Sandusky and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. After that, we are making our way to Chicago for a 2 nights stay in Villa Park, IL, going to the Shedd Aquarium (squeeee) and Lincoln Park Zoo. Then we head on up to Detroit for a Tigers game on the Wednesday. Thursday we drive up to Brantford, ON for a few days with family and my brother in law’s wedding, then we head home on the Monday. Lotsa driving, but lotsa fun too. ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-is-here-any-cool-vacation-plans/363035/25 "2006-07-04T22:24:26Z")
> [@Johnny L.A.](#): > > Good thing you’re upstream. I couldn’t fit the whole phrase in, but I wanted to write “Always swimming upstream of the herd”. We hit six different rivers last summer. Only two so far this year. ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-is-here-any-cool-vacation-plans/363035/26 "2006-07-04T22:29:35Z")
Just got back from 3 days in the UP of Michigan…heaven on earth. ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-is-here-any-cool-vacation-plans/363035/27 "2006-07-04T23:06:47Z")
Mostly, I’ll be working. I’ll probably take a weekend to go see my buddy up in Boston, but I’ll be doing a lot of working. The upshot of this is that I’ll have a bunch of money at the end of the summer. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-is-here-any-cool-vacation-plans/363035.md?page=1)