Is it summertime yet?

It's cold
Cold
COLD!

I'm tired of winter already.
So, I'm planning the summertime events already.
Let's see...

Camping, for sure.  A yurt in Pymatuming again? Booked...all friends and family invited :-)  Put-in-Bay again?  Certainly, but may wait to book to watch the weather.  Must remember to order a tent pole and get a new air mattress (ours has sprung a significant leak from little bouncing on it). 

Renaissance festivals are a must.  We enjoyed the Ohio Festival last year and plan to go again, especially since they are running the same great discount on tickets for Labor Day weekend.  I've got until June to order tickets and book a campsite.  We'll see if we can talk anyone else into the 3 hour drive and camping adventure.  Perhaps we'll hit the Geneva Medieval Festival this summer...though I always feel like our costumes are a bit more up-scale than anything there.  We're likely to talk family members into joining us for this one, though it's a bit harder to find discount tickets.

Great Wolf Lodge waterpark fun.  Booked...but haven't told the kiddos yet.  Can't wait for it to be a surprise.  They had so much fun last year and this year will be just a great with my new little niece joining in the water play.  Can't wait to get the ol' bathing suit out for this swimming adventure...and all the swimming we do in Lake Erie.

County fairs are traditions.  Perhaps we'll try the Erie county fair this year or we'll head to Lorain again.  Either way there will be animals, fried food, rides, and big ol' tractors.  Oh my, I think Tamlin will be big enough and want to go on the adult rides this year.  Can Brian and my stomachs handle it?

Family reunion!  Our cousin Rhonda has booked the pavilion so the date is set.  We'll try to make it as a 3 day weekend to see family...or maybe convince some of them to come over to our side of Cleveland for a pre-reunion visit.  Or maybe reunion on Saturday and Medieval Fair on Sunday AND county fair on one of those nights.  Or maybe a trip to Eddie's grill?

Eddie's Grill....a tradition to walk the stip, eat fried hot dogs, get doughnuts, and play arcade games.  We'll squeeze this in some weekend.

And then there are all the going ons in our own town...Third Thursdays, Walleye Festival, Wollybear Festival, countless music festivals....I can't wait for the late nights, the ice cream cones, the swimming, and the fireworks.

Really...is it summertime yet?!