When it's summertime and the weather is high...

OR is it when the weather is hot? Does anybody even know? Mungo Jerry, solve this - what are you singing? hot or high?

I'm still really missing home. When skyping family and friends I wish I could be there with them, instead of on the other side of a computer in a city as equally muggy as North Carolina in the summer, but without all the perks of a Carolina summer.

So, to combat all this homesickness of late, I have decided to become a little more proactive in my summer plans. Aaron and I have been brainstorming things that we can do to make new summer traditions - things that we can do no matter where we are in the world and that we can look forward to doing every year. I don't want every summer to be hard as I think about all I wish I could be doing at home, but I want there to be things that we do here that I get excited about as well.

Movie matinees once a week was the first thought I had, then I remembered that the movies here are in another language and I don't think I'd really like doing that more than once in a summer. Then Aaron came up with Western Wednesdays. Every Wednesday throughout the summer (which just started for us this week, since Friday was our last day of class) we will watch a Western movie. I'm not talking about Western - like Asians are Eastern and we are Western. But Western like John Wayne and Clint Eastwood.

And I decided that we should come up with a peach drink. Like in America - peaches are only available here during the summer months, so I thought it would be fun to come up with a drink that I know we can only have during one season a year. But, the problem is, I don't know a peach drink recipe - so I've been looking all week for peach drinks. The other trick is - the peach drink has to be something that couldn't be done better in America (like a peach milkshake). Because that will just leave us wanting and comparing it to Chick-fil-a.

Today we watched The Outlaw Josey Wales. No peach drink yet though. I'd love to hear your recommendations on peach drink recipes, westerns, and other ideas for new family summer traditions....just remember we can't drive to the beach here or drink cheerwine slushies.