Do you want to do a reminiscing survey?

Question

1. Did you used to go stay with a relative for a week or more in the summer? (grandparents aunt and uncle?)
2. If you did, did you get to do cool stuff?
3. Did your grandparents (or another relative) have a cottage on a lake or a cabin in the woods?
4, Did you have cousins that you played with as a child that you still are in touch with?
5. Did you ever go on a snipe hunt?
6. What is your favorite summer memory from when you were a child?

Answer 1

1. I use to spend almost my entire summer vacation at my grandma's house
2. Went to play in the river (& innertube floating) just about every day.
3. It was a cabin in the woods
4. I use to play with lots of my cousins when I was young but we've all gone our seperate ways and I haven't seen them in years.
5. No (LOL) but my cousins use to always try to get my current boyfriend to go with them
6. I have so many! I just loved spending time with my cousins. It didn't matter if it was working in grandma's garden, having bottlerocket wars, floating down the river or just lying on the porch listening to all the night time noises every one was just as memorable.

Answer 2

1. Did you used to go stay with a relative for a week or more in the summer? (grandparents aunt and uncle?) No, I grew up with my grandparents living next door...I saw them everyday, they helped raise me!
2. If you did, did you get to do cool stuff? I watched Guiding Light and Price is Right with them and they took us bowling a lot!
3. Did your grandparents (or another relative) have a cottage on a lake or a cabin in the woods? My cousins lived in a cabin in the woods behind us
4, Did you have cousins that you played with as a child that you still are in touch with? No, but my mom keeps me up to date about them
5. Did you ever go on a snipe hunt? Huh?
6. What is your favorite summer memory from when you were a child? Playing ghost in the graveyard with all the neighborhood kids..we lived in the country so the hiding places were endless...

Answer 3

1. Yes, my older married sister.
2. No cool stuff just fun with nieces and going swimming.
3. No, just a house in the country, that seemed great to a child who grew up in the burbs of NYC.
4. Pretty much have lost contact with most of my nieces..
5. Did that at Girl Scout Camp. Great fun!
6. Summer vacations at a cottage on a pond in Maine.

Answer 4

1. yes, I would stay w/my uncle bob and aunt abby.
2. yes, we would go to the movies and swim.
3. not at all, we were on the poor side of life.
4. yes, I still see and talk w/them
5. yes, my father showed us how and then sat in the kitchen smiling.
6. my dad would put a big tent in the back yard and we could sleep out there during the summer.

Answer 5

1. No
2. No
3. No
4. Yes
5. No
6. Going swimming at the lake with friends.

Answer 6

1. Yes
2. Yes
3. Yes
4. Yes
5. No...but we hunted duck, woodcock.
6. My cousin spent every summer for years with us(we were the ones with the camp for him to come to) and there are soooo many !!

Answer 7

1. yes, my grandma and grandpa.
2. no, we kind of entertained ourselves. my grandma was always a nervous wreck. she took us to see On Golden Pond. in the scene where Henry Fonda's character got lost, she was sure that my grandfather (who was delivering church newsletters) was lost. we left the theater to wait for him. it was about an hour before he came back. we could have finished the movie.
3. nope.
4. no, my cousins were a lot older
5. nope. we couldn't even have water pistols.
6. my favorite summer memory was going out to raid their vegetable garden. yummy, fresh veggies.

thanks for the memories. happy day:)