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[Alitas]

Ah, the blissful days of summer. Living as I do in Paradise (57 days out of the year, anyway), I've decided to list those activities which give me greatest pleasure while on holiday.

--Fishing at dusk
--cooking out in the back yard, under the billion stars, while fireflies twinkle
--the clean, blue and green days of Maine, with white puffy clouds, 10 dollars in dimes in your pocket and yard sales every where
--having company and drinking beer and eating lobster
--reading a book for 4 hours straight
--tending the garden
--going to the beach
--riding bikes up and down the road with my nieces and nephews
--not having to dress up every day and wearing the same pair of cargo shorts for three days in a row.....


Enjoy your vacation and post which activities you like!

[Sekhmet]

Vacation??? Whats that then?

Or is that what you call torturing the kids with an extra 8 weeks of "summer school"?

One of the major downsides of living and working in Egypt (as I just discovered AFTER I accepted the job) was the complete lack of vacations... So enjoy your garden and think of us poor b*stards who live in appartments!!!

[foster]

Am going home fro 5 weeks...

-eating mum's cooking
-my favourite beers
-shopping for clothes that wil actually fit
-hanging out in mum and dad's garden
-driving
-going to the lake and jet-skiing
-Calgary Stampede!!

[Will.]

A traditional British activity for the summer. normally reserved for Sundays and rarely, really enjoyed until the summer reaches us again;
A lie-in.

[zaneth]

Suddenly I feel that the thing I most want to do for summer is hang out with Alitas.

[Ludwig]

Three weeks in the Alps, followed by six weeks in Thailand.

[Alitas]

zaneth

The good life, yes indeed, for 57 days.

[johnslat]

Dear Alitas,

[denise]

Rollerblading along the coast.

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[Gordon]

In a few weeks I'll be off for 8 weeks of holiday in British Columbia. Not teaching anyway, since I'm doing my Masters.

Introducing my daughter to all her nephews, nieces, aunts, uncles, grandparents....
Sitting by the lake, waterskiing, snoozing and making sand castles.
BBQ's almost every night eating salmon and great Cdn beef
Playing tennis and golf
Reading English newspapers which are more than 25 pages long
Listening to the radio and knowing or caring what they're saying
DQ Blizzards
Not needing air conditioning
Going up to Whistler and admiring God's creations
Not knowing if it is Monday or Thursday

[gtidey]

whoever said mums cooking is spot on, but may i just pinpoint exaclty what: The Sunday Roast. The epitome of luxury cuisine, the meal you would have to ask for if you were on death row. Oh my god is it tasty. Yorkshire puddings, nice bit of lamb, roasted carrots, peas, that yellow mash she does. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm mmmmm.

And whats best is you can lie in and the smell wakes you up! Can you imagine the joy of waking up, pulling on yesterdays clothes and moseying downstairs for a full sunday roast with all the trimmings?

Bit of that this summer and I'm going interrailing too. (cant wait to get to morocco)

[gtidey]

P.s - alitas, your signature cracks me up.

[grahamb]

John, I hope you open doors with a key instead of an axe!

[johnslat]

Dear grahamb,

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