I honestly dont have an impressive summer activity anymore considering im 25… not really a child anymore though i tend to behave like one when time permits sometimes… the only major summer activity i have is eating mangos since its mango season right now. apparently they use calcium carbide ( same stuff they use to make homemade crude bombs) in mangos to ripen them, so ive been told to not eat them anymore so yeah thats pretty much at a complete stop right now… But this question brings me back to the days when i was a carefree kid with no worries hanging over my head and the complete summer to do whatever my little heart desired. besides the regular “tag, you’re it” games (ice/water was the favorite in my neighborhood), waterfights with the hose and sneaking around the yard with supersoaker 3000′s or wutever the latest watergun was out in the market, laying on the hot sizzling tar driveway with our towels to get a nice summer sun tan and see who could get darker… trips to the six flags darien lake were a must and of course visits from our cousins R & H from boston followed by a trip to boston with them. we fought like cats and dogs but we loved them because we used to have a lot of fun when we werent fighting. They would teach us all the things we didnt know not having a brother around, like how to make the perfect paper plane, how to draw, how to attack other people with water balloons and other sneaky devices. They were and still are amazing with science and they basically got my sister and i interested in science and the wonders of it. Our summer vacation was never complete without a trip to the boston museum of science with them and we always had so much fun learning different interesting things about history, chemistry, physics and we could see the experiments and activities in front of us to get hands on with it. They gave us a lot of books which helped gain that interest and of course helped in school. my sister and i used to love building room size forts in the guest bedroom using blankets, books, big thick mail postage adhesive tape and god knows wut to prop dizzyingly high roofs and live in them at weeks on end till mom forced us to take it down… (she would also get so pissed cuz later on in the winters when she would take one of the same blankets out from the linen closet which was used in the fort she would find bits of tap stuck to it!) These forts were as crazy as the houses u could see drawn in any Dr. Suess book. completely high on one end and extremely low on the other with various odd sized peaks in between! (No grownups allowed was the rule of course!) And we used to take our whole life in there. we used to make a mini house – small reading room with lamp on one end… ( please try and ignore the various fire hazards we failed to recognize as children that could have ended in disaster!) we used to take sleeping bags in there so we could also sleep in there at night. we used to take games in there and invite our friends over to play inside with us. my sister and i had a knack for making secret clubs that involved of course lotttss of secret club meetings which the fort was perfect for. We also loved playing this game which we invented after my dad gave us an old portable recorder he didnt need. It was where one person starts recording a story usually starting with “once upon a time…” saying a couple lines to begin a story and handing the recorder to the next person who would continue the story in whatever way they wanted to. then after the recorder went around the room in a circle a couple of times we would end the story and playback the tape to laugh over what crazy story we had made. When we got bored of being cooped up in the fort we used to love going outside and used to play this game called wing singer which we learned from our childhood friend J. it was a game using a jump rope but nothing like the ordinary ways u could play with a jumprope… it was where one person had one handle of the jump rope in their hand and the other handle would be on the ground.they would start turning round with the jump rope to make a circle and the other people that were there would stand in a circle just close enough to have the handle hit their legs if they didnt jump. we started slow with the jumprope making the circumfrence of a circle and just less than a foot high if u dont jump fast enough to jump up before the handle of the jump rope comes around u were out. slowly as the game progressed the jump rope would come around faster and higher and the jumprope as we progressed starts “singing with speed” which is why the game is called wing singer. it sounds crazy but u should try it its really fun and the jump rope handle if it hits you doesnt hurt hard really u kind of it get used to it. lol… i hope i have a good creative brood of my own children someday so i can pass on the games that were legendary and wonderful for me. this was a good featured question that brought back many warm memories. thanks to whoever posed this question
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