summer

Boy has it gotten hot out here in my nick of the woods, school just let out & the kids are already driving me crazy. Anyone out there with plans? We are too broke to even think of vacations, but we do plan to hit the park if we drive outa town we can even take the dogs along, our local library has summer reading program to engage the youth, vbs programs for varied ages & lucky we don't live to far from the coast to enjoy the beach (that is if we can get a parking spot a little tricky sense its tourist season & don't want to pay a meter & lastly if thunder boomers aren't in the forecast no one wants to become BBQ). The one thing I hate about living here is so much of city planing is going for the senior generation, they closed down the sport center that conected with the skate & bowling ally to replace with strip malls last summer. Even worse they messed with the beach taking down our circle for condos & tore down jungle land sadly its just an empty lot where so many familly enjoyed a cheap afternoon fun of mini golf, bumper boats, acades & rides just across from the beach. So here it is the begaining of summer with so many young people free of school, what is to become of them? Parents still have to work with budgets tight & safe places to hang with friends & activities to keep the mind & body engaged becoming scarce. I worry about the teens with nothing to do & time on their hands. Food for thought for city planners out there.