Ain't no Cure for the Summertime Blues

Popsicles how I love thee

  I hate summer I have hated summer since I was a kid. Sure school is out but that is fun for like the first two weeks and then it gets boring.I like popsicles, the eating of them and just the basic imagery of them. In fact I would say the only thing I like about summer is that stores put up pictures of popsicles   I do not do well in the heat ,I hate being hot, I would rather cold. If you are cold you can throw on an extra sweater snuggle under some blankets fix it. It takes a lot more to become not hot once you have reached a certain level of heat. I also have never looked good in a swimsuit another key point of summertime fun.
   I also dislike the pressure of summer vacations you feel like you should go somewhere do something. When I was younger we never went on huge vacations we went to the local theme park Carowinds and once or twice we went to the beach but that was not an every year thing. When school would go back to session and we had to write the obligatory " What I did this Summer" essay I was always jealous of the other kids essays. My best friend went to visit her Grandma in Orlando Florida every year and went to Sea World and Disney World. All my Grandparents lived near which was great because we got to see them a lot but we also never had the need to leave the state.

   The one time we tried to go to Disney World it ended in disaster, it was probably the worst vacation anyone has ever had ever. First our minivan nearly hydroplaned off the road, then shortly after we smelled a horrible reminiscent of  Easter eggs left to go bad.Then the car started shaking and smoking and the  engine fell out of the car.It late at night  and my Dad had to leave us on the side of the road to go look for help (this was before the advent of cell phones, people had them in 1993 but they were not household yet). My Mom, sister and me had to cower in the van for who knows how long until my Dad arrived with a tow truck. This was somewhere in Georgia , deep backwoods Georgia that the car pooped out. I think the town was called Hickman , but that could have just been what my parents were calling it. There was no civilization for what seemed like miles and miles ans coming from Charlotte where the comforting glow of neon greets you nearly every where I was scared he would never find people. We then had to ride  in the minivan while attached to the tow truck swaying this way and that in  a ride that was more terrifying than any ride at the park. We were then left to languish at a garage for sometime, I remember the couch there was made of uncomfortable burlap-ish material and there was lots of various garage debris strewn about. From there we had to ride in  Taxi with all our belongings to an airport it was here I learned that the Disney trip was fully canceled from the airport we would rent a car and drive back home. We had to wait in the airport lobby for a about an hour or so while my dad rented the car. It was torture seeing all the children carrying Mickey dolls wearing Mickey ears going on the dream vacation I had just been so rudely denied. I was purchased a stuffed Minnie Mouse at the Disney Store as he consolation prize for my thwarted vacation.
    Now I worry I am giving my children bummer summers, we do all the free stuff around that is fun but they still seem bored. A vacation is out of the question for us this year not only financially but with Cody and Cullen's special issues the planning of it would be terrible. I have taking them to the park, to family Place, The Cradle of Forestry, The Community Pool., yet they still seem bored. I made a big basket and filled it with coloring books and crayons and flash cards and learning supplies and let them have at it. Yet they still seem filled with ennui. I wish I could take them on fun vacations such but it just is not feasible right now. So I need fun and CHEAP summer time suggestions to help my little boos shake off the summertime blues