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My favorite summer memory is from summer camp 7 years ago. We were outside dancing as thunder was rolling by, and as the chorus started playing, it started POURING. It was a movie-magical moment, and I’ll never forget it. One of the best moments of my life and I couldn’t have imagined it better.

My favorite summer memory was in my freshman year of college when I performed a scene from Shakespeare’s As You Like It on a busy street in London. I was part of an English/Theatre summer program that my college hosts every other year. It was really exciting to have a crowd of strangers form around us while we acted. The applause when we ended in front of the British Museum was quite exhilarating.

P.S. I, too, cannot wait for this movie to come out!!

My favorite summer memory is when I went on a cruise with my grandmother. Most people would probably think that sounds boring, but it was so fun. I love her and we got SO close that summer. The cruise was fun (obviously) but my favorite moments were just the quiet ones where she would tell me about her life as a young kid (she’s from germany). She attempted to teach me some German over the course of the cruise but it never really stuck. That will always be one of my favorite summer memories because she was there. 

SO. COOL. My favorite summer memory is probably… playing tons of video games and not having to work

My favorite summer memory was when I met my love for the first time.

My favorite summer memory was probably the summer after senior year. It was the first summer with no summer school and I was so excited to go to college. Oh and I just got a car..which meant FREEDOM!! I went on so many adventures.

My favorite summer memory was last summer. The many nights of last minute decisions to go to a friend’s house, just hanging out, talking, and having fun. Such simplicity but it was great!

My favorite summer memory was going on a post-graduation road trip with my high school friends to Disneyland, Knott’s Berry Farm and Universal Studios for one week. We didn’t do anything crazy, just had a great time with some of my closest friends before we all left for college.

My favorite summer memory is wandering through the fields and forest near the house I grew up in.  I did that a lot.

My favorite summer memory is when I went on a three-week cycling trip to Ireland with some college friends. In a tiny little hostel in a tiny little Irish town, I had my first real kiss from the guy who was to become my boyfriend of 3 years Yeah, by far the best memory I have – of summer, of ever.

My favorite memory of summers past combine several summers into one, as I did this activity at least annually. I spent a lot of time at one of my aunt’s houses, playing with my cousins at the pool, getting into water gun fights, and generally just causing mild-mannered chaos, as young kids are wont to do. I did this well into my teenage years until I could stay at home by myself and then when I went off to real summer camp. The freedom of having a whole day with its structure entirely up to me and the whims of my cousins is a great kind of freedom, and I will miss it.

My favorite summer memory is from my summer after high school. Everyone was close, still reminiscing, and we all (12 of us) took a road trip down to Puerto Vallarta for 3 days. There were water rides, drinks, and shopping. It was actually the only vacation I took without my parents haha.

My favorite summer memory is when i was in the 2nd grade and me and my dad took a 2 week road trip through the rocky mountains, stopping everywhere from the corn palace to mt rushmore. 

I must have missed the previous posts on this movie! Looks intriguing, and I enjoyed that end music My favorite summer memory is a late-night philosophy talk with a friend in a pirate ship on a playground. Two friends, our feet buried in sand – simply children in bigger bodies trying to figure out the world below deck in a pirate ship meant for children a fourth of our age.

My favorite summer memory was when we moved the dining table to our front yard and the entire family gathered for a spaghetti dinner outside.  I was about 8 years old…such good times

my favorite summer memory is jumping into a lake, off of a 30 ft, tall cliff in texas hahaha…nobody told us it was ok..but we deemed it safe  

I was in love with a lifeguard when I was 14, the summer before my sophomore year of high school. He was 16 and about to be a senior. I worked at the snack bar and we would flirt endlessly. I thought I didn’t have a chance so I was left pining away with a mixture of severe lust and premature heartbreak. ‘Linger’ by the Cranberries was my theme for those couple of months. I spent almost every single day at the pool with a couple friends and neighborhood kids. We were old enough to understand certain things, to watch out for the younger kids, to afford our own pizza and Twix bars, but still extraordinarily innocent and truly happy and carefree as a result. I never wore sunscreen.

Looking back, it was obvious that the lifeguard liked me back and he would have kissed me had I allowed the situation to develop. There were a few moments of tension and rapid breathing that found us unbearably close to one another that should have developed. I was afraid and insecure and it took me a couple years to realize that this was the case.
I never saw him after that summer but I still cherish the fun we had in the pool house, and the fun my friends and I had on the deck and in the water. It was the last summer before I discovered alcohol. It was the last time I felt pure happiness.

My favorite summer memory is when I went to China with my family.  It made me realize how much is out there in the world and made me want to return again one day.  It also made me want to travel more often and learn about the world.

my favorite summer memory was when i went to salt lake city, utah to visit my cousins that i’ve never met before. they were already in their 30s! 

AAAHHH Wes Anderson is my favorite, this is exciting. 

Anyway, my best Summer memories were all the days I spent roaming around my Philly neighborhood with my friends. It was before we had licenses or cars, before we got involved in more adult activities, if you know what I mean. We had to get creative. My days were filled with wawa binges and silly boys quoting South Park and dirty feet. We didn’t know a damn thing about the world, and created our own, naive, concerns. We were innocent and it was lovely. 

SO stoked for this film!

My favorite summer memory has to be from three years ago. I worked at a summer camp, and became really close with a few of my co-workers. I also got to meet a bunch of internationally employed staff, which means I now have connections around the world, and a reason to splurge on a plane ticket!

The summer of 2007 I was finally allowed to go out and really do what I wanted. My friends, Courtney and Emily, would come and pick me up almost everyday and we’d just go on adventures. We would climb on the roof of a nearby elementary school and talk, go to Atlanta, or go to the park but what I remember most was the music we listened to. Whenever I hear The Bird and the Bee’s “Again and Again” I’m instantly right back in Summer 2007. We were all just realizing who we were and there was nothing more important than being each other’s friends. It was the best summer of my life. 

i can tell you my favorite memory so far this summer, heading up to chicago to see moonrise kingdom, there were stops at the zoo, conservatory, and dinner at girodanos that day as well… now for all time favorite summer memory, summer road trips are always fun, took my niece to mammoth cave a few years back, she was too adorable telling us to be quiet ’cause monster bear was sleeping in his cave…

My favorite summer memory is my first time camping at Winnipeg Folk Festival with my first boyfriend. It was a truly magical experience. I saw some amazing bands and the weather was perfect all weekend. The air was thick with the sweet scent of a prairie summer, dragonflies and fireflies buzzing around and the sound of endless drumming in the campground. I met some amazing people that I will never forget including musicians, belly dancers, fire spinners, artists and undercover ninjas. 
One part that especially sticks out in my mind is wandering back to our tent at night and stopping at a group of people around a fire that were playing, You Can’t Always Get What You Want, by The Rolling Stones. There was a woman playing a violin and a man singing along and it was just such a minimal and emotional performance that we both admitted after that it made our eyes a little misty. Wandering around that night we found a boundless array of art installations, costumed revelers and surprises around every corner. I felt like my world opened up to the beauty of nature and expression that summer and I will never forget it!
I finally get to see Moonrise Kingdom tonight….can’t wait!

Too many! But one of my most vivid memories of summer is when I’d open my bedroom window every morning when I was a little girl, and take in the sweet warm smell of the summer air. It always made me feel so incredible, and I’d never felt so lucky to be alive! I still do that to this day, and that smell is still so very comforting to me (even as an adult now) because of the memories attached with it.  

My favorite summer memory was when i camped out in the backyard with my best friend. We laid under the stars and just talked about random things. It was super relaxing.

My favorite summer memory was the summer of 2011 when I decided to volunteer at my old summer camp. We had water balloon fights with the kids all the time and even played truth or dare through chinese poker. It was so hilarious when I unknowingly got pied in the face twice with whipped cream. I really didn’t expect the job to be as much fun as it was.

favorite summer memory is being at home and eating mama’s cooking

My favorite summer memory is of me and my family going to South Padre and we got chinese takeout to the beach. Apparently seagulls really love crispy wontons because they chased me down the beach when I had one in my hand… I looked like queen of the seagulls for about 30 seconds

Favorite summer memory. Driving around at 15 with my best friend. Stopping for snacks at the liquor store, just driving and talking and singing.

My favorite summer memory is simple and sweet. It has to be riding my bike along with all my girlfriends through out home town at dusk. We grew up in a small town and would ride to the park, to get ice cream, to rent a movie, wherever. Every summer we would reunite our girl bike gang and it was awesome!

First off, I’m the biggest Wes Anderson fan ever (currently teaching a summer film course on him!).

My favorite summer memory is when my best friend in high school first got her license and we rode around the entire summer drinking Pepsi freezes and singing along to The Used at the top of our lungs

favorite summer memory:
building forts in the “forest” nearby our farm house. It was really just a small grove of trees for the purpose of a wind breaker for the neighbor’s house, but to me and my friends and siblings, it was our Narnia. We’d find orange twine and wrap it around trees to mark off rooms. We’d make stoves with twigs, and find old tuna and soup cans to make soups and salads in. Old tarp became roofing. We became the boxcar children, secret agents, pioneers, pirates, runaways; anything we wanted to be in that magic patch of trees.

My favorite summer memory is of when my grandfather took me camping. I was previously distraught because my brothers were going to a Boy Scout retreat and, as a girl, I was allowed to attend. My grandfather stepped in and said that we’d be camping – ‘real roughing it’ – separately. I learned so many things that week about the wilderness and I bonded with my grandfather. It was a special time; it’s not only favorite summer memory, it’s my favorite memory.

Two years ago, I found the love of my life from an indoor rock climbing– but I wasn’t sure that he will want to be my mate later in a few months. In a few months, the start of summer, we confessed our feelings at our local lake. We then started to feel requited and made out for a long time that we were out after sunset.

Now we’re in the process of planning our future with a dream house. Since he’s an animator with quite a taste in films, he has been recommending me to watch some of Wes Anderson’s colorful movies. We actually just got back from watching Moonrise Kingdom.

Favorite summer memory was yesterday when I went out to ice cream with my parents and friends.  Nothing beats good company and ice cream!

My favorite memory is spending the summer at my Grandma’s house in the country. We’d milk cows, play with the lambs, ride horses.

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My favorite summer memory was from one of the summers my extended family spent on Seneca Lake in the Finger Lakes of NY. One of my older (and bigger) cousins had brought an inflatable canoe that he could not keep his balance in, so he abandoned it. I found it under the porch of the big house and claimed it for mine. I was just small and light enough to balance in the craft and I spent the two weeks we were there paddling alone along our small bite of the coastline, docking on the slate steps where the huge willow hung over the water and an old submerged bit of railroad tie covered in thick moss made a cushy seat looking out on the lake and hills that surrounded it. It was a snippet of heaven I’ve never found again.

K.A. Barnes