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What's on your summer bucketlist?

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milo82
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What's on your summer bucketlist?

I know some of your kids have started their vacation and some haven't yet. Honestly Lina won't be attending school till Jan 2015! LOL But she goes to daycare... We JUST got back last weekend from a 3 week vacation to Morocco, which was great btw, so that is about all our summer vacation for this year! We might be going away for another week in September, no but specific plans yet...

Gosh I'm getting on the wrong track! SUMMER BUCKETLIST, it is!

I Have had this idea for months (prob already had ideas when preggers with Lina, LOL But never wrote anything down! haha) to start one, but honestly no idea where to start...

So I'm wondering have you got one? What's on it? And did you made something of it, instead of a simple written notebook paper?

I work 3 days a week and got the weekends with the 3 of us... I wanna do fun stuff: go places, pick cherry's from an orchard (and apples in august), go for a picknick by the water and lots more... See I haven't really thought this through, so any ideas are more thern welcome and YES they can involve water :D We've been having summery weather all week!
 
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1. B having her first sleepover - I am going to say check, since Moriah stayed home last night. She of course wants to stay over there now. LOL!!!
2. A lot of Six Flags (gotta use those season passes!)
3. Road trip!
 
1. pick strawberries
2. take the kids to explore downtown Seattle
3. take them to the beach at least once
4. got to the Pointe Defiance Zoo
5. go to the Woodland Park Zoo
(we don't h ave alot of vacation time, so they will be weekend day trips)
 
I am literally working on this right now.

Some fun ideas we've done in the past include Sonic shakes after 8 one night. Let them think they're going to bed, but then have them jump in the car for a Sonic shake (which are half price after 8 so double score!).

Give each kid $5 and let them have a little shopping spree in the Dollar Tree store. Obviously, depending on the ages of your kids depends on how successful it is, but ours loved it last year at 5 and 8.

We're going to hike some trails that are nearby but we've never visited. We drove a couple of hours to Mammoth Cave (with cousins) last week for a picnic lunch and guided tour - it was fabulous.

I just found out there is a drive in theater about an hour away so we may give that a shot.

I include things like out of state family visits that are going to happen whether or not I include it on their bucket list, but they don't know that. :)

Let the kids choose a meal they can prepare and then take a trip to the local farmers market and let them buy ingredients then go home and fix it for you. Adults can get dressed up for the meal.

Regal Cinemas have $1 movies on Tuesdays. Always a hit!
 
The Zoo (we have already checked this one off)
Stone Mountain for the Laser Show (would like to go twice this year)
Six Flags (we have free tickets this year)
The water park
Go to Atlanta and visit a museum
Sleep-away Camp (this is next week)
The Beach
Backyard Camping
The rodeo (we check that off tonight )
A Day-trip to Savannah to enjoy the waterfront.
 
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well ours will also def include a trip to the zoo, go to a farm, pick fruits and stuff, lots of playing and exploring with water and I'm kind of in the nature trips...maybe go on a boat of some sort. Just hoping the weather stays summery, cause they predicted this is going to be one of the worst summers ever...spring was awful, so we'll see and keeping my fingers crossed!!
 
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I have never done a list when Sarita was little, we did a lot of stuff and we still do some stuff together (she is 17 now)
but my main problem is the most careful plans...unless it involves getting on a plane for which I have paid (I make sure we do it) LOL
nothing ever happens the way I planned it, so I would just do a choose as you go...
Not sure what you have around yopur city, but when Sarita was in between 6 and 10, she would love the Natura History Museum, we would go to the theatre in the park, we have two with amazing stuff on, one is a play in movement all over the park, would go to the ponds or swimmiong pool, there are a few art centers with pottery, drawing, lots of art stuff for kids for free...
but this is London, not sure of you live in a big city?

In here we have street festivals too that are fun, and there are guides online for what's on for what age...

I see you have some awesome stuff picked already on the outdoor thing, maybe find out if there is a guide for local activities on the indoor thing?
ohh I miss those days in which I had to do something like this in summer :)
 
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