As a child, what was your idea of fun?

Joanne's FAVORITE answer:
I had two favorite things my sister and I would play. The first was "school". I was always the teacher, andI would make elaborate rollsheets and homeworks for my sister and friends to do. I would grade them and keep their scores in a record book. It was very organized. I think it's safe to say, I was the only one who enjoyed "school". Is it a suprise to anyone that the older I get the more anal I become? The second favorite thing we would play was "bar". When we stayed at my grandma's house, we would play"bar" at the bar my grandparents had built in the downstairs room of the house. It was large enough that it could fit 6 large barstools, and they always had it stocked with tons of liqour and mixers. One of us would be the bartender, and the other would be the guy at the bar who started out normal but always got really drunk and had to be thrown out of the bar. It was our favorite game. Is anyone suprised that I have a tendency towards being a drunk?

Joanne's answer:
As a kid, I looooved swimming in my neighbor's/babysitter's pool in the summer, just doing laps or playing Marco-Polo or pretending I was a water-ballerina. Also, when I was a little older and my dad moved into a house with a basement, my sister and I would spend hours every other weekend putting on singing performances for each other. And who could possibly forget the chinese jumprope...either played conventionally (by jumping on it) or unconventionally (by doing some sort of wrapping-it-in-your-hands thing that I can't seem to be able to explain)!

And the other answers!

1. When I was ten and young I lived in California and while Dad was builing a house ( for us) we decided to utilize the type of dirt we had. Actually in the yard it is not dirt but clay. We had more FUN wetting it and shaping into cups and saucers and letting them dry in the sun and they would become hard and usable if we had wanted them to. We made all sorts of things and it would keep us busy all day!

2. Having sleepovers with my constantly changing best friend(s), eating Doritos, watching movies, talking about boys, and writing in slam books (a dangerous game when your best friends can become enemies overnight).

3. There was in amusement park several towns away from me that my mother would take me to on my birthday as my birthday is in August. Norumbega Park in Newton, Ma was the ultimate day of fun. My siblings would come too and it was the most fun. I also went to a day camp for 4 weeks in the summer and I got to sit on a horse and swim in a pool. I learned to shoot with a bow and arrows as well as a .22 rifle. I had my marksman medal by the time I was 12. I had a best friend at camp. I saw her every year until I was 12. I never spoke to her during the school year but we'd be back best friends come summer at camp.

4. Playing Baseball.

5. From what I'm told, I'm a child now! So can I say "Strip Clubs"?

6. As a child, my idea of fun was when my family would pack a picnic and go to this playground that had backhoes that you could dig into the sand. It was really cool to meneuver the backhoe. Really, I had a lot of ideas of fun and most involved playparks - I especially liked the ones with the swirly slides that were near my grandparents!

7. As a child I loved pretend play. I was either a very rich Victorian lady or a poor destitute mother of seven. I also like to ride my bike around town.

8. When I was young I used to live near a park that a creek ran through. My friends and I would catch crawdads in the summer and play games in the park. One day we realized that all the storm drains led to the creek (they were like 4 ft tall). Of course as kids, these looked like caves from the Goonies, full of adventure. So we did what any kid would do. We wrapped the end of a stick with a rag soaked in oil, lit the frickin thing on fire, and pretended we were Indiana Jones while we explored the drains! I spent an entire summer doing that in elementary school. We did manage to find bats and a few tarantulas, but we never found that gold...

9. Rollerskating, baby!!

10. Climbing trees and playing in the sand box