Summer

I'm not a huge summer person. Don't get me wrong--I prefer it over winter but I love spring & fall the best. Rhode Island is humid & muggy and just gross in the summer. I hate feeling sweaty & lazy and that's exactly how the humidity makes me feel. Despite it not being my favorite I always try to get out there & do some summer things.

Last summer we really lived it up. We have a pool & I went swimming & sat out by it a lot. We went to the beach quite a few times, went to block island (a blast), spent a day at Canobie Lake park, spent a few days in Newport, Played a ton of mini golf and we went to a huge fair in Vermont.

This summer's activities? Not a whole lot! With the majority of our time spent in the NICU & to and from it--it's been really hard. We did get a day in Newport. We also found a way to spend the day at Canobie Lake Park. We didn't open our pool. We felt we wouldnt have time to keep it up (and we wouldnt have...we can barely get our grass cut!). Just this weekend we spent a few hours by my father in law's pool. It was nice to feel like we got something out of the summer. I'm determined to make it to the beach at least once. We've been at night--but we still have not had a lay out in the sun on the sand with a good book beach day. Being that it's August already I'm really hoping we can squeeze a day in.

I am going to 6 Flags with some friends next Sunday. I'm not big into thrill rides. I think I'll hang in the water park section if I can. Do any of you like thrill rides? What are your favorites?!

I'm not sure what else I can do to get a little more summer in. I've made quite a few caprese salads & sandwiches. We've used the grill quite a bit. I've been getting an Awful Awful (Milkshake made with ice milk instead of ice cream. Less Calories. More flavor. Called an Awul Awful because it's Awful Big & Awful Good) here and there & I do get a lot of Dels (Frozen Lemonade). So in many ways we've been eating & drinking summer. Haha.




What have you been doing to soak up summer?!

For my non-RI Readers here is a link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del