Schoooooooools out for summer!

Today is our first day of summer. Didn't have to drive any kid anywhere. One of them even slept in. 
To all of you, teachers, students, parents, congratulations on making it through another year. Take a few months to chill if you can. 

Oh, and Mitch...

All it means for me is not dealing with school busses when I'm doing errands and lots of tourists crowding up the town. I am already looking forward to Labor Day. 

I'm off on Fridays and hate the fact that I have to get up at 6:15 during the school year. Today I slept in to 7am. 

Let the games begin!!

Driving to work is about to get a whoooooole lot easier. 

spitfirebill said:

Driving to work is about to get a whoooooole lot easier. 

For you maybe.. now it is tourist season

Envy.  We're done end of June.

mad_machine said:

spitfirebill said:

Driving to work is about to get a whoooooole lot easier. 

For you maybe.. now it is tourist season

Just returned from Door Co. Wisconsin on Monday.

Seeing the major increase in traffic from noon Friday to Monday morning made me realize how much the locals who don't rely on the tourist trade, i.e. the seasonal homeowners and retirees, must hate tourist season. No place to park and a constant stream of vehicles on every main road with people crossing the streets without even looking. Madness. Also why we usually schedule our trips for the middle of the week instead of the weekend and especially a holiday weekend. Still had a great time though.

my daughter asked me now that she's out of school for summer when i get 'out' of work... i cried myself to sleep...

In reply to edizzle89 :

I enjoy telling the graduating seniors who are soooo relieved to "Finally be getting out of school" that they now have forty or so years of work to look forward to with no summer break, no spring break, no winter break, etc, etc. Oh, and you have to show up on time, before noon EVERYDAY.

While I may still have to work all summer, with the students for the most part gone I still enjoy summer break!

3 years today at the best job I've ever had.

Life at the firehouse changes dramatically when the college kids are released to the custody of their parents. 

In reply to mazdeuce - Seth : One more week of school here. However I’m working 13 hour days driving them to various events.  

Graduation promises to be positively brutal. Normal school day but about 5:00 we take the seniors to their all night graduation party.  

We don’t bring them back until 6:00AM  so that day I start at 5:30 AM and about 27 hours later I’ll get out of the bus.  

Then nothing, no income until summer school which will be 2 hours in the morning 2 hours in the afternoon. 

Much of July August is off until the 12 hour State   Fair  10 days  happen  

Summer just means I have to pay even more for school age care because it's full day vs just after school. Whew!

My kiddos have two weeks to go.  Trying to get summer activitie$ lined up as we speak!

paranoid_android said:

My kiddos have two weeks to go.  Trying to get summer activitie$ lined up as we speak!

Yup.  Same here.  Two more weeks.

Wife's been off all week. She's already driving me nuts (short drive)

Since we homeschool it just means all our favorite spots are now crowded. And since I work from home, traffic is not a concern.

I do know it means daytime smash & grab burglaries are about to go up as usual during school breaks around here.

SaltyDog said:

mad_machine said:

spitfirebill said:

Driving to work is about to get a whoooooole lot easier. 

For you maybe.. now it is tourist season

Just returned from Door Co. Wisconsin on Monday.

Seeing the major increase in traffic from noon Friday to Monday morning made me realize how much the locals who don't rely on the tourist trade, i.e. the seasonal homeowners and retirees, must hate tourist season. No place to park and a constant stream of vehicles on every main road with people crossing the streets without even looking. Madness. Also why we usually schedule our trips for the middle of the week instead of the weekend and especially a holiday weekend. Still had a great time though.

This has always been my problem with Door County. My inlaws used to have a place up there. Growing up going to the UP, I got used to not having to fight for a parking spot on vacation. I always found it exhausting dealing with everyone else on vacation up there. 

And I'm about to be part of the tourist problem. I don't care. It's hot. I'm leaving as soon as I can. 

yupididit said:

Summer just means I have to pay even more for school age care because it's full day vs just after school. Whew!

Since taking care of kids is what schools do, why don’t we have year around school, and school hours the same as working hours? 

It would probably cost a lot less than daycare plus the kids scores might actually get there with the rest of the world 

Last day of school for my kids was Wednesday and they got some karma payback.  I get home and take the kids out for Ice Cream.  On the way everyone starts picking at each other and just being not nice to be around.  At about 3:30 am Thursday morning our power goes out and does not come back on until around 11.  First day of summer vacation and no electronics.

Appleseed said:

Oh, and Mitch...

Love that movie. 

Hey, d'jyah hear they caught Hirschfelder?

Dang my kids last  day was 2 weeks ago!