Originally Posted by
Darth Lefty
The last day of school is Thursday, 5/29. The first day of school is August 7th. Also a Thursday, weirdly. My kids get two months plus a week. This sounds terrible but they also have a lot more days off. This year and next year with Easter being so late, they get President's Day turned into a week, which I've heard referred to as "Ski week." Not this year for us, maybe someday. Of course the ski resorts black out all their discounts.
I remember those long summers when growing up in the states.
Here, we're shorter ... this year it's 3 JUL to 3 SEP ... so booking the school-aged daughter into sailing lessons for those weeks.
