After over a year of quarantine, life is finally starting to get back to normal. Especially since summer just started and I am now fully vaccinated, I am very excited to go out and have fun without worrying about getting Covid-19. However, even though things are starting to open up, it is always important to maintain safety regulations to keep yourself and others around you safe.
Since I live close to the beach, my friends and I are very excited to have beach picnics. My friends and I used to have beach picnics twice a month, so we are hoping to get back to that. Going to the beach is a safe option since it is outdoors and you don’t come in close contact with others.
Another plan my friends and I have is to rent a projector and put it in our backyard. We are going to rent a bunch of old, throwback movies and spend the night watching movies and eating snacks. As for snacks, we love going to the grocery store together and playing games to buy snacks. For instance, we might each randomly assign each other a letter of the alphabet, and we have to find a snack that starts with that letter. We also might decide to buy 3 snacks that we have never tried before. My favorite way to buy snacks with friends is for each of us to go to an aisle and close our eyes. We then randomly point, and whichever item is closest to where we are pointing, we buy. These are just fun ways to try new snacks and make buying food more fun!
I am most excited to go to restaurants this summer. Since quarantine started, I have been apprehensive about in-person dining, so I am looking forward to doing that again. This summer will be a time for life to get back to normal and for everyone to interact with one another again.