The end is nigh

The Boy has 3 days left of school before summer vacation begins. Talk on the playground at pick-up has dwindled away from fall 2008 matriculation and toward summer vacation plans. I have so many things I want to do this summer, although I'm sure that I have not adequately prepared for any of them:

• join a pool
• go to Kiddieland
• rent/borrow a beach cottage in Michigan/Indiana/Wisconsin for a week
• hire a babysitter once/week
• visit Super Grandpa in Indiana
• visit family in Michigan on Lake St. Clair
  
• go to Minneapolis-St. Paul to visit The Girl's birthday twin and her parents
• take the water taxi between Navy Pier and the museum campus peninsula
  
• go to lots of museums and parks
  

The Boy and The Girl are going to daycamp through the park district (at different parks) for 6 weeks. And The Boy and I are going to Seattle to visit Uncle Chris for a weekend in June. How is it that summer is upon us already?