where has the summer gone...

This has been such a fast summer for me. I blame school....the summer semester switched to being 11 weeks instead of 15, so that meant a lot of work in a little amount of time. School ended last week for me, but I only get 3 weeks off. James and I both start school back up on the 23rd of Aug....thats less than 2 weeks and I feel like we haven't enjoyed summer yet. We did manage to make it to the beach on a very hot day, so we spent most of it in the lake. I've only been able to swim a few times at my moms. We went to Great America a couple weeks ago and it was perfect. It had been raining so the park was dead. We only got drizzled on for a few min. The lines were about 15 min. We rode it all and did the water park. While there I managed to win my first prize and a large one too! I now own a life size bugs bunny because I broke 3 plates with my three balls! My favorate thing about the summer is that we bought some giant blow up rafts to "canoe" down the dupage river with. We've only gone once so far, but going again this weekend and labor day weekend. Our adventure lasted about 5 hours. We went from Joliet to Channahon. There was a lot of laughs along the way...me getting stuck, me falling out, our friends leaving the keys for the car in channahon in the car in joliet....since we like it we are hoping to get kayaks and do it more often. It appears that they are going to connect the bike paths behind our house and put a launch right behind us! That has really been it for the summer...but school is going well. I am now finished with the first year and still have a 4.0...its going so fast. Only 5 semesters left