Remember when you were in elementary school and one of the first things you did in class when you went back to school was an assignment on what you did on your summer vacation? Let’s talk (write) about that a bit today! I’m still helping a few people trouble shoot some issues with their WordPress site. Hopefully we’ll have those problems ironed out today!

So – what DID you do with your 12 glorious weeks of summer vacation? What did you do, where did you go, who were you with…..AND what did you learn?

I mowed, planted trees, built fence, put down landscape fabric, sprayed weeds, canned peaches, worked at the Threshing Show, set up my classroom, etc. To me, summer is about the time for travel, a lot of travel! The word vacation is fairly synonymous with travel – California, Florida, Nashville, Reno, Atlanta, even Ontario, Canada.

I learned a great deal about all of the places we drove through. I enjoyed some great time on the beach and amazing food everywhere we went. I learned that Canada Day has morphed into Canada Week – evidently, a lot of folks from the US travel to Ontario to celebrate. Who Knew!? It took us 4 hours to go the last 8 miles to get across the bridge and back into the United States at Port Huron, MI. I would not recommend Sunday afternoon at the end of Canada Week to try to quickly get back home! I learned that licensing vehicles in Canada seems to be much more relaxed than here in the US. We attended a car auction where many vehicles were sold without a “VIN” and or a title!

I learned that someone was forward thinking enough with the goal of drawing tourists to a resort town on the Colorado River in Arizona that he arranged to buy the actual London Bridge, have it taken down, all the pieces numbered and identified, and then shipped to the Arizona dessert and erected in a town called Lake Havasu City! Don’t believe me – look it up!

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