Classic Summer Activities

Cookouts--Everyone has done this.  Where you invite your family or friends and do BBQ in your backyard.  When I do a cookout, I cook beef patties, sausages, hot dogs, chicken, pork, shrimp, and any other meat you can think of.  I'm Asian, so that means I also eat and BBQ disgusting things.  From my personal experience, the key to making the cookout food taste good is to season and marinate them overnight.  So that the seasoning and marination seeps into the food.  Like any party, a fun cookout requires the following.  Bring people that will make others laugh.  Bring attractive people.  Bring people that can help you cook and serve the food.  Bring people that will eat a lot.  Bring people that will help you clean up afterwards.  Have a kick-ass stereo for the music.  Have plenty of beer (preferably imported beers not those cheap domestic beers).  And have plenty of food for everyone.

Beaches--Going to the beach is definitely a summer classic.  You can go there to play in the water.  To build sand sculptures (like sand castles, sand dicks, and other creative sand sculptures).  To view the ocean or water.  To view beautiful people (and nasty people like a 60 year-old woman in a  bathing suit or a 300 pound guy, with his big belly showing, trying to play volleyball).

Amusement and Water Parks--Most of us go to these places when summer comes.  We scream and go crazy when we go to these places.  These places are a great stress-reliever.  I always leave smiling and laughing after going to these places.  But the thing is, they can be expensive (even with the season passes).

Celebrating the 4th of July--I personally think that the best time of summer, is during the 4th of July week.  There are usually parties everywhere around this week.  People are happy during this week because most of them are on vacation.  Of course the fireworks.  Where would the 4th of July be without the fireworks. 

What's your favorite summer activity?