Your Childhood Summers

AddieCake · June 2013

As a child, I would rip the glowing butts off lightning bugs and wear them as rings. What sort of outdoor summer fun did you enjoy as a kid?

Maggie0829 · June 2013

Flash light tag, camping in the backyard, my friends and I riding around in our red jeep power wheels, and having complete freedom (meaning no work or school and no responsiblities for a full 3 months).

Peaseblossom55 · June 2013

I went to dance camps and theater camps growing up. They were local though not overnights. I remember coming home after and going swimming at the pool we had membershp too. I loved being able to dance all day.

BostonGIrl4732 · June 2013

We did day camps every summer (usually different ones every year) and went to a summer home on Cape Cod. When we were at the Cape, we'd go to the beach almost every day and run around like crazy because there were always a ton of kids in the neighborhood. I used to love climbing trees. What I wouldn't give to go back to those times!

winelover123 · June 2013

I came for the candy! We used to play in the sprinkler which was always soooo cold! I really miss having a ton of spare time; during the summer up through high school I used to paint, do calligraphy, teach myself how to write in Chinese, draw, etc. It was awesome. Now I'm lucky if I have an hour to do any of that.

Peledreamsofrain · June 2013

Addie, you are a barbarian

. My summers were pretty much me running feral in the fields. We lived in the middle of nowhere and I had no other kids to play with, so childhood was very Bridge to Terabithia, but solo.

southernbelle0915 · June 2013

Will tell stories of childhood for candy....

the lake house and all the campfires, smores, and marco polo that went with it; playing ghost in the graveyard and cops&robbers; band camp; camping; rollerblading and riding my bike

wittykitty14 · June 2013

I always went to Girl Scout camp. I've done plenty of sports, science, and theater camps too.

Family vacations to the ocean-I loved getting knocked down by the waves!

Lots and lots and lots of swimming.

Honestly, I can't remember anything else than that, which is pathetic. A lot of my childhood memories have been blacked out, which is both a good and a bad thing

AddieCake · June 2013

Obligatory Candy Gif:

hordol · June 2013

I would go to the local swimming pool everyday, but once I was "too cool" for that I just watched Saved by the Bell and Roseanne on cable all day. I got lazy...

ETA: AND Dawson's Creek! TBS played 2 episodes every morning and I never missed them during the summers.

jarednmegan · June 2013

Exploring the woods behind our house, swimming at the public pool (or better yet, a creek near our first house), running through the sprinkler, camping/fishing with my dad...

Holy crap. I want to be six again.

Peaseblossom55 · June 2013

More candy

winelover123 · June 2013

jarednmegan said:

Exploring the woods behind our house, swimming at the public pool (or better yet, a creek near our first house), running through the sprinkler, camping/fishing with my dad...

Holy crap. I want to be six again.

I agree! What great, carefree times.

AddieCake · June 2013

We had this little wooded area between our house and the house behind us, and there was a path carved out from people cutting through there. I liked to pretend I was a Native American girl living there.

Peledreamsofrain · June 2013

Lol, I had a 5 square mile territory I roamed barefoot. It included a creek, several abandoned farms with awesome broken down buildings and silos, and more fields than sense.

AddieCake · June 2013

I went to Girl Scout Camp, too. I even remember this: Make new friends, but keep the old; one is silver and the other gold!

wittykitty14 · June 2013

The only other thing I know I did a lot of was play with my imaginary friends. I had lots over the years, and played with them all the time. Maybe I didn't have enough friends. Lol.

Swazzle · June 2013

My summers were mostly spent down the shore with my grandparents. My mom worked all day so instead of me going to a babysitter in the city (we lived in Philly at the time) I spent the whole summer going to the pool and the beach and the boardwalk. My mom came down on weekends to see me. It was pretty awesome. I miss being able to do that!

AddieCake · June 2013

Linger, that would be so fun to have an adults game of summer kid games!

swimmy1988 · June 2013

Our town had the parks and recreation department have a thing every week day. We'd go to the playground every day and hang out with a teenager that worked there - playing different games like grounders, or other playground games. We'd also go on trips to the water park in the next town 45 minutes away.

Some summers my parents signed me up for tennis lessons. I also did horseback riding a few summers, and ate LOTS of ice cream. Sometimes we'd even get those 11.4 litre containers of ice cream for the family.

harper0813 · June 2013

Ghost in the graveyard, Summerfest, day camp, swimming lessons, Elm Grove pool where we'd swim and eat unlimited Funions, and play in the creek at our neighborhood park. Man, this is making me feel bitter than I'm stuck in the office on a beautiful day.

Belle2188 · June 2013

I came over in the candy van!

I was never really much for games, organized activities, camp, fun, etc. mainly because I was a little priss that thought I was a grown up basically from birth haha, but I always loved the pool and the beach in the summer. I could stay out there all day swimming and tanning. I also remember at some point a distant relative teaching us to pour beer on slugs--I did like that despite it not being ladylike.

I never went to actual Girl Scout camp, but I went girl scout campING once--it was awful. Girl Scouts was not for me...

winelover123 · June 2013

What is Ghost in the Graveyard?

I remember girl scout camp! I loved the day camp. As I got older, though, I joined Venture Crew and loved that so much more. We could actually go camping and tend the fire and learn how to make one. I remember with my girl scout troop we weren't allowed near the fire. I also went repelling with Venture Crew. It was awesome.

winelover123 · June 2013

That sounds like fun!

wittykitty14 · June 2013

LingerLonger1 said:

It's kind of like hide and go seek but in reverse. One person is it (the ghost). Everyone else covers their eyes and waits at the base for a given amount of time so the ghost can hide. Then everyone goes to look for the ghost.

When the ghost is spotted whoever sees him yells "GHOST N THE GRAVEYARD!" and everyone has to try to run back to the base without being tagged by the ghost. If the ghost tags you before you get there you're the ghost in the next round.

Oh I used to play something like that! It was awesome!

southernbelle0915 · June 2013

LingerLonger1 said:

It's kind of like hide and go seek but in reverse. One person is it (the ghost). Everyone else covers their eyes and waits at the base for a given amount of time so the ghost can hide. Then everyone goes to look for the ghost.

When the ghost is spotted whoever sees him yells "GHOST N THE GRAVEYARD!" and everyone has to try to run back to the base without being tagged by the ghost. If the ghost tags you before you get there you're the ghost in the next round.

I just reminiscently smiled and sighed and thought of all my go-to hiding places. (it's also best played at dusk or in the dark)

AddieCake · June 2013

Belle2188 said:

I came over in the candy van!

Woot!

rel1988 · June 2013

xcalygrl said:

When I started babysitting during the summers, I watched hours of 'the price is right.'

Yup!! When I think of childhood summmers my first thought is price is right

winelover123 · June 2013

LingerLonger1 said:

It is and you should get people to play it with you You will not regret it.

I'm definitely going to do this next time we have a cook out. My friends are all children at heart too, so they'll play with me

wittykitty14 · June 2013

I LOVE SLIP N SLIDES!!!!

AddieCake · June 2013

One of our friends had a slip n slide at her party before she left for Afghanistan. It was awesome!

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