I think our driver's ed is different. My dd recently turned 15 close to the end of the school year so next spring she can technically go for her permit the day she turns 16. After that she can do driver's ed which has nothing whatsoever to do with school. I believe there is a 2 hour mandatory parent child class then there is the classroom portion, passenger in the car with another driver, and student driver hours plus parents have to sign off that the child has completed x amount of hours outside of drivers ed. Once these are complete a license can be obtained at 16.5.
This summer dd is volunteering at a museum which has a highly competitive teen summer volunteer program. She just started this week and loves it. Other summer fun is a group figure skating session which includes lessons and volunteer instruction with younger kids. She is also doing piano/voice lessons. She is also helping out at her sister's soccer camp which gives community service hours. We don't have a big vacation planned but will go away for a family cabin camping weekend and we do other small things - we went to Great Wolf Lodge for a night etc. We also take advantage of living near Boston. For example DD15 and I did a Boston North End tour including trying 3 slices of pizza and visiting places like Paul Revere House and Old North Church (done it all before but the tour was fun).
That's really cool.
We live close to NYC, just a few miles away and we so very rarely go. Boston I'd head into if I lived close, I love it(DC, too!). NY I only go in for B'way shows and Yankee games.
We're going to Hilton Head, SC in a couple of weeks. can't wait-so relaxing and beautiful there.
Julia ended up getting that summer rec counselor job after all, so she's working 9-4 every day started 2 days after school ended and ends 8/4. She's with 5 and 6 year olds and loves it.
She had cheering tryouts the day after school ended and made varsity. She's so so so happy! And so am I, for her!!
Anyway, cheering started this week, nothing major until August, she has conditioning one night a week and practice one night a week through in July. Off a full 10 days and then it starts up. She on the high school dance team, which has a camp in August. I'm not really sure how that's going to work. The dance team coach knows that cheering is her first priority and is good with that, so I guess she'll fit it in somehow.
She's also volunteering as an assistant coach for junior football cheering, she has the 5th and 6th graders there. That starts in August as well, so she'll be kept busy.
I'm hoping to go down the shore at least one day with her and my son and some friends that week between rec ending and all day cheering beginning.
I got the football schedule last night and she's missing the last regular season game for our mother/daughter trip to WDW for her 16th birthday, whoops!
Other than that, nothing much school wise. She has to keep a journal about major events going on(gay marriage vote, Greece financial crisis etc.) Has to read a fiction and non fiction(picked To Kill a Mockingbird and Outliers) for Lit, math packet for Alg 2 is done. Some other reading, I forget exactly what it is.
I don't want to think about school too much, because when they go back, I have to go back.
She had never been, so asked to see Boston for a day while we were in the area. the weather was beautiful!! i enjoyed the break from 95+ here
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I keep reminding him he needs to pick up that summer reading book and get working on that. 
- Villanova Univesity and St. Joseph's University. He really liked Villanova. I just was in total denial that it was even something that we were doing, but admit that it was kinda fun. Only because they are about 45 minutes away! 
We were able to walk through a few buildings at each school. He asked if we can keep doing it just to get a feel for them. He mentioned Penn State and when we were looking at how many students, about died when I told him it was over 40k. 
So who knows, maybe we will head out there for a visit. 
