Usually I will go to some kind of camp (but it won't last all summer) and we'll go on a few vacations. This summer we're going to the Mediterranean.
We played outside every waking hour. Riding bikes, roller skating, playing sports, cowboys and indians, tag, etc. Stuck inside on a rainy day was like a punishment.
I grew up across he street from a lake. We swam, canoed, sailed, rode bikes, built forts. When I got old enough to drive we went to the springs or the beach.
My friends and I would strap our fishing rods to our bicycles and ride around to all the good fishing holes. If the fish weren't biting, we would go swimming. We always ended up telling our parents "We fell in."
Where I was raised you worked all summer. We lived on a working farm. Everyone had a job to do everyday. There was always vegetables to shell and put up for later. Going back to school was a break.
Going out to the cabin by a lake for midsummer!
I would still keep my Busboy job, but add in days at the beach (20 minutes away) . . . Going to the mall at night with friends . . .
Sleep overs with immense consumption of junk food to which my metabolism would burn off just by sleeping . . . Riding bikes, rope swing out into a lake . . . Summers seem to go on and on . . . Now that I am an adult . . You blink and the earth has seemed to pick up its revolutions, and increased warp speed on it's orbit of the sun . . . Before you know it Fall is here, rinse and repeat.