{"id":2911,"date":"2013-06-24T08:26:16","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T12:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=2911"},"modified":"2013-06-24T11:43:20","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T15:43:20","slug":"a-sweet-summer-bucket-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/miscellaneous\/a-sweet-summer-bucket-list\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sweet Summer Bucket List"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Sweet<\/a>

Sweet Emotions<\/p><\/div>\n

1. Swim in a lake.\u00a0 The best one in the Quiet Corner of Connecticut is Mashapaug Lake<\/a> at Bigelow Hollow, where the water is clean, silky, and deep.\u00a0 Hint: if you swim out to the sandbar and around the point, Bacon Rock is a half-submerged, striped rock to jump from.<\/p>\n

2. Grab a handful of candy at Sweet Emotions Candy<\/a>\u00a0in Storrs, CT.\u00a0 Hint: If you answer the trivia question correctly, you earn a free candy prize.<\/p>\n

3. Step into the year 1790 at Old Sturbridge Village<\/a> to ride a stage coach, see a working saw mill, and hear the parent goats call after the baby goats that crawl out under the fence and run away.\u00a0 Hint: ask the potter about throwing chamber pots.<\/p>\n

\"Old

Old Sturbridge Village, MA<\/p><\/div>\n

4. Ask your local librarian about the Great Scavenger Hunt Contest<\/a>, a free, nation-wide program that provides trivia question challenges and prizes for MG and YA readers in the summer.\u00a0 Hint: you can access the questions<\/a> for hundreds of the books, like Birthmarked<\/em>, online.<\/p>\n

5. Take a picnic to the beach and go boogie boarding.\u00a0 Hint: it\u2019s better with waves, but fun even without.<\/p>\n

6. Zip on the zip line and climb through the trees at the new Adventure Park in Storrs<\/a>.\u00a0 Hint: if you see a Labrador in a bandana, he\u2019s probably Rusty, and he\u2019s friendly.<\/p>\n

\"Cape

Cape Cod<\/p><\/div>\n

7. Take a road trip with an audiobook the whole family can listen to together.\u00a0 Hint: in honor of Audiobook Month, all audiobooks at Tantor<\/a> are half off during June.<\/p>\n

8. Make a movie.\u00a0 Gather the neighbors, brainstorm a story from history or the future, include a couple of battle scenes, dress up, and get filming.\u00a0 Hint: the more seriously you do it, the funnier it will be.<\/p>\n

9. Learn to play the ukulele. \u00a0You know you’ve always wanted to. \u00a0Hint: on Youtube, an absolutely adorable boy can\u00a0teach you five chords<\/a>\u00a0and a strum pattern to play “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” in under 9 minutes.<\/p>\n

\"Uke\"10. Bike a rail trail.\u00a0 The stone dust surface of the Air Line State Park Trail<\/a> that runs through East Hampton, Colchester, Hebron, and Lebanon, CT, is rugged enough for fun, or try the paved Norwottuck Rail Trail<\/a> in Northampton, MA for a smooth ride.\u00a0 Hint: agree on a stopping point, or the kid in front will keep going forever and you\u2019ll never catch her.<\/p>\n

11. Write a novel.\u00a0 Start on page one and write to page 250. \u00a0Add pictures and a map. \u00a0Hint: pass around the pages to your family as you go. \u00a0They’ll love it.<\/p>\n

12. \u00a0Visit with friends. \u00a0Hint: invite them over for an ice-cold glass of home-made lemonade on the back porch. \u00a0Here’s the best recipe<\/a> ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. Swim in a lake.\u00a0 The best one in the Quiet Corner of Connecticut is Mashapaug Lake at Bigelow Hollow, where the water is clean, silky, and deep.\u00a0 Hint: if you swim out to the sandbar and around the point, Bacon Rock is a half-submerged, striped rock to jump from. 2. Grab a handful of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[63,199],"class_list":["post-2911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-ha","tag-top-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2911"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2931,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2911\/revisions\/2931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}