Squeezing out every last drop of summer fun

School starts on Monday, and we have several things to do before then. One of them is kayaking. The others are listed below:

1. Visit Goddard Space Flight Center
2. Visit the National Zoo (and get there by Metro, because Katie was too little to remember the last time she rode it)
3. Eat at Benihana
4. Learn the Thriller dance routine (okay, not before Monday, but hopefully before October)
5. Learn the lyrics to Sugar Hill Gang's song Rapper's Delight

The last two items are really just for me. I've wanted to do them for so long and haven't tried, not even for five minutes. And it's easy to neglect goals like this, because there's always so much other, more serious stuff to do. Projects for work, bills to be paid, groceries that need getting, the gym membership that must be justified...

But I realized a while ago that play is just as important as work. Not just for kids, but for grownups, too. If you're not having some regular fun, if you're not laughing and being silly at least some of the time, you end up with frown lines and a beer gut.