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10 Summer Activities You Can Easily Try

Try everything and anything!!

Deanna Dantas

Jul 19, 2024

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This summer, live it to its potential! Life isn't all work and no play. Make sure to give yourself some time to be silly and explore. - Take a chance on everything - Make a restaurant bucket list and visit every restaurant on it - Go on a restaurant road trip - Visit a local music hot spot - Have a water balloon fight - Spend a day at the beach - Find a pen pal - Try surfing - Take up music lessons - Say yes to something you're scared of - Get into a book series - Have a movie marathon - Make a bonfire - Log everything you do and make a scrapbook.

Here are a bunch of things you can do this summer, that are guaranteed fun:

Go on a restaurant road trip.

Old blue hatchback car on a mountain road with food and restaurant signs

Food Road Trip

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Make a restaurant bucket list and visit every restaurant on it. Try everything you've heard from people that are good. If it's not near by, make it a trip to go to that location and maybe explore the area with it. Food is always worth it. Correction: GOOD food is always worth it.

Visit a local music hot spot.

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Local Music

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You'd be surprised of the liveliness in your own little towns with local musicians. Check them out and open your appreciation for some nice live music.

Have a water balloon fight.

Animated people Throwing water balloons at eachother

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Fill these babies with water and or paint and have a blast. Water balloon fights or darts with paint (with a backboard) #princessdiariesinspired

Spend a day at the beach.

The ocean on the shore line with a sunset and palm trees

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This is an obvious one. But, maybe going at different times can prove to be different. The sun and sky differ in color, the air is different, and the people are different too. Give it a shot. What's one early morning or one late night?

Find a pen pal.

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This one is something I just did recently, because why not?! Send a handwritten letter to all of your current friends, and maybe anyone you have lost touch with. Become pen pals! It's pleasantly therapeutic and it's just nice to have letters in the mail that aren't ads or bills.

Say yes to something you’re scared of.

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Try surfing. Take up some music lessons. Text that person you've been wanting to text! Make some connections. Go on that interview! Push yourself!!!

READ!

three books stacked on top of eachother with sunglasses on top of them on a table at the beach

black framed Ray-Ban Wayfarer sunglasses on top of bookPhoto by Link Hoang on Unsplash

Get into a book series! Get lost into another world besides your own and enjoy. Even if you hate reading, make a goal to try to read one book that may prove to be interesting to you. Be open minded and relax. If you have a 200 page book, you can even read at a pace of 2 pages a day. It'll be complete someday. Get it started now.

Have a movie marathon.

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Get your buddies together and just let these movies run on and on. It will be the best of the best. Snacks and drinks will be a plus!

Make a bonfire.

Fire burning as a bonfire in the sand at night

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THIS IS THE BEST! Some memorable summer nights! Get a bonfire going with a bunch of friends, get some music playing, drink, and talk the night away. Play some charades, tell ghost stories, or just chill. It's a definite good time.

Write.

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Writing

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Log everything you do. Stick a cute polaroid pic next to it! Make a scrap book. Get creative! It will be nice to look back on these memories without having to scroll through pictures on your phone!

Take a chance on everything. Let yourself explore things you never have "time" for. Make time. Make it last. Make it memorable.

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10 Summer Activities You Can Easily Try

Try everything and anything!!

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Visit a local music hot spot.

Have a water balloon fight.

Spend a day at the beach.

Find a pen pal.

Say yes to something you’re scared of.

READ!

Have a movie marathon.

Make a bonfire.

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1. Watch an R-rated Scary Movie in a Movie Theater

2. Buy a Lottery Ticket

3. Vote in an Election

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5. Go on a Road Trip

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10. Start a Meditation Routine

11. Go to a Yoga Class

12. Treat Myself to a Dinner for One

13. Volunteer for a Charity

14. Participate in a Research Study

15. Bake Something (That Ends Up Being Edible)

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1."But what would happen if we all tried to be like Santa and learned to give as only he can give: of ourselves, our talents, our love and our hearts? Maybe we could all learn Santa's beautiful lesson and maybe there would finally be peace on Earth and good will toward men."

"Sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can't see."

"If you won't use your heart, who cares if it gets broken? If you just keep it to yourself, maybe it'll be like my rollerblades. When you do decide to try it, it won't be any good. You should take a chance. Got nothing to lose."

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5. Is the "S" or the "C" silent in the word "scent"?

6. Does expecting the unexpected make the unexpected the expected?

7. Would Lightning McQueen buy car insurance or life insurance?

8. Who put the alphabet in alphabetical order?

9. What color are mirrors?

10. If 2 mind readers read each other's minds whose mind are they really reading?

11. Is there a synonym for "synonym"?

12. If your shirt isn't tucked into your pants, are your pants tucked into your shirt?

13. Why is it called "quick sand" if you sink slowly in it?

14. If I try to fail, but succeed, which one did I do?

15. If Cinderella's shoe fit perfectly, why did it fall off?

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