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Y-L_A's 785 Summer Survival Guide and Tips
« on: May 23, 2011, 10:48:32 PM »
So as we all know summertime in Manhattan is probably what heaven is like. (Holy war)
Here are my tips to make your time in Manhattan as enjoyable as possible.

Have a Theme Song for your Summer and live and die by it
Rent a jet ski and Kenny rough ridin' Powers the fuckin crap out of Tuttle Creek Lake.
Go out to University Park and play a round, you can act like you “paid the green fees” but we both know better
Go to Daras and make yourself a slushy, heck make it a suicide but don’t let the cashier catch you because they’ll probably charge you extra
Go to every MHK event you can go to, Thunder Over Manhattan I’m there, Weenie Dog race you betcha, Arts in the Park more like where else would I be.
Take a UFM class, learn how to be a Top Chef  or how to use that sand wedge for when you go out to University Park
Join that softball team because we know it’s inevitable you will be or have been asked. Then get shitfaced and proceed to get thrown out of the game.
Play a pickup game of roundball at city park, the barn, or the rec.
I said every MHK event so that means you must attend the Country Stampede and you know what you’re going to have a hell of a time. You don’t even have to pay if you don’t want to there are ways to sneak into the campground which is easily the best part of the whole ordeal.
People watch, especially during the Stampede, camp out at Wal-Mart and take it all in.
Drive to the top of the world at night and bask in the glory that is the 785.
Hike the Konza
Bike the linear trail
Go to a yoga class or a crossfit class if you so dare
Check out Pillsbury crossing, then act like you didn’t like it even though you secretly did
Make a trip up to KC or somewhere because everyone goes through that “Oh I so need a break from Manhattan”(Maybe go to Legends or PNL or something theres not much to do in KC Sorry) or Go to Omaha for the CWS, lord knows they could use the economic stimulus that we would provide.
Go to the bars that you wouldn’t normally go to, have a summer beer each and every time you go out though and it has to be from RAB
Go to Wildcat Creek play some putt putt, play some volleyball, fish, grill, and feed the adorable geese.  This is better at night time
Eat at each and every restaurant you can, and be sure to go to the little grill
Play some Frolf
Go fishing out at Pott II
Try out the trap park or go to an indoor shooting range(have to travel to Junk Town , while there you might as well check out some nasty stretch marked whore at Mustangs
Check out city parks pool and you enjoy the crap out of it
Go bowling at Zuckeys then go check out the basement and try out some karaoke
Go to the old stadium and play some pigskin and if you’re lucky enough you might get there at the right time and you can ask to join in on a game of cricket
Trying camping a weekend out at Carnahan Creek
Have a Theme Party
Bon Fire and roast some mallows, yes I would like some more, some more of what
Take in a flick at Westloop or Hale when they do an outdoor movie or even at Seth Childs(indoors only sorry, bummer I know)
Go explore parts of 785, 66502 and 66503 that you have never been to or didn't know they existed
Try out the zoo, drink plenty of fluids though because that hill after the big cat and bear exhibit is a real doozy.
Check out the Farmers Market
Garage Sale, Don't Mind if I do look through all of your crap
Go to Cico Red or Pluto and have a home run derby
Don't forget to BBS with your friends @goEMAW
On a rainy day check out the Beach Museum
Go to the mall during the dog day sales and enjoy
Float trip Big Blue River
Make big plans that never come to fruition

Does anyone else care to add to this thread


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Re: Y-L_A's 785 Summer Survival Guide and Tips
« Reply #1 on: May 23, 2011, 10:59:03 PM »
Salina is also 785 area code, nothing to do in Salina though.

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Re: Y-L_A's 785 Summer Survival Guide and Tips
« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2011, 11:03:06 PM »
Salina is also 785 area code, nothing to do in Salina though.

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Re: Y-L_A's 785 Summer Survival Guide and Tips
« Reply #3 on: May 23, 2011, 11:03:32 PM »
yeah, salina's list is considerably shorter.  did have bogeys for lunch though, so i can reduce that puppy by about 50%.  did not have meat goat though :dubious:

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Re: Y-L_A's 785 Summer Survival Guide and Tips
« Reply #4 on: May 23, 2011, 11:44:12 PM »
I usually just spent my summers in MHK working on my tolerance to alcohol.  :ck:

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Re: Y-L_A's 785 Summer Survival Guide and Tips
« Reply #5 on: May 24, 2011, 06:39:25 AM »
great list y-l-a. I have nothing to add.
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Re: Y-L_A's 785 Summer Survival Guide and Tips
« Reply #6 on: May 24, 2011, 07:04:57 AM »
great list y-l-a. I have nothing to add.

pretty comprehensive list.  could probably merge into the "... white midwesterners ...." thread and go ahead and close that file out.

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Re: Y-L_A's 785 Summer Survival Guide and Tips
« Reply #7 on: May 24, 2011, 07:11:33 AM »
y-l-a, where have you been all my life!?  :love:

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Re: Y-L_A's 785 Summer Survival Guide and Tips
« Reply #8 on: May 24, 2011, 07:58:05 AM »
Amazing. Going to start thinking about my summer theme song right away.

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Re: Y-L_A's 785 Summer Survival Guide and Tips
« Reply #9 on: May 24, 2011, 08:00:29 AM »
- Get high and go to to the natatorium and jump off the high dive

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Re: Y-L_A's 785 Summer Survival Guide and Tips
« Reply #10 on: May 24, 2011, 09:05:44 AM »
Mountain Biking at Tuttle
Watching Thunderstorms from the KS letters


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Re: Y-L_A's 785 Summer Survival Guide and Tips
« Reply #11 on: May 24, 2011, 09:25:51 AM »
- Get high and go to to the natatorium and jump off the high dive
Will try this
Rent a jet ski and Kenny rough ridin' Powers the fuckin crap out of Tuttle Creek Lake.
Were can I rent a jet ski here?

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Re: Y-L_A's 785 Summer Survival Guide and Tips
« Reply #12 on: May 24, 2011, 02:35:33 PM »
great thread.


Find out when every midnight premiere at Carmike is going to be during the summer and make the necessary arrangements to get absolutely crap faced and make an ass out of yourself at said movie premiere. You will have to go see the movie again because you won't remember any of it, but it is worth it.

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Re: Y-L_A's 785 Summer Survival Guide and Tips
« Reply #13 on: May 24, 2011, 02:38:06 PM »
wow, that all sounds really awful
Where did you get that overnight bag?

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Re: Y-L_A's 785 Summer Survival Guide and Tips
« Reply #14 on: May 24, 2011, 02:41:32 PM »
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- Go to the bars that you wouldn’t normally go to, have a summer beer each and every time you go out though and it has to be from RAB

- Eat at each and every restaurant you can, and be sure to go to the little grill

These two are my favorite things about summer in Manhattan.

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Re: Y-L_A's 785 Summer Survival Guide and Tips
« Reply #15 on: May 24, 2011, 07:12:57 PM »
wow, that all sounds really awful
Defeat the Old Chicago World Beer Tour for the 5th time
Play video games so much that you make some goofy ass thread like kougs did that one time about GTA

Rent a jet ski and Kenny rough ridin' Powers the fuckin crap out of Tuttle Creek Lake.
Were can I rent a jet ski here?
Wildcat Marina @least you could a couple of summers ago


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Re: Y-L_A's 785 Summer Survival Guide and Tips
« Reply #16 on: May 24, 2011, 07:22:21 PM »
Play video games so much that you make some goofy as thread like kougs did that one time about GTA

lol

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Re: Y-L_A's 785 Summer Survival Guide and Tips
« Reply #17 on: May 24, 2011, 09:15:26 PM »
Man. Pretty amazing list.

I would add/change...

don't call frisbee golf frolf.
Go to Lawrence for a day/night and get silly. Could  come in handy later if you meet someone from ku..."yeah, I got kicked out of Louise's once..."
Home run derby on yellow. I mean Pluto? Come on.
 Don't just fish at pott2, camp there too. Even if it's just blankets and a pillow on a picnic table or something. Also explore while you are there. Trails, etc at the entrance right hand part.
Try to barbque stuff on a grill. Very few college peeps know how. Ribs, pork loin, etc.
If you rent a house, you must and I repeat must, buy a $150 dollar four foot deep by twelve feet across pool with filter, stairs etc. Buy a thing to test levels, etc. And stuff to keep the levels good so it doesn't turn green. Have a couple friends/roommates pitch in if needed and then invite people over. You can fit about four people all laying on rafts. Much more without rafts. Have people over early (tan time) and late (after hours).

Maybe more to come. Great start to a great thread though.

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Re: Y-L_A's 785 Summer Survival Guide and Tips
« Reply #18 on: May 24, 2011, 09:20:39 PM »
If you're a musician, having a jam session on your porch/patio during a summer night is the best jam session you'll ever have. And it doesn't matter how late you make it because there's literally 7 people in town and they probably don't live close to you.

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Re: Y-L_A's 785 Summer Survival Guide and Tips
« Reply #19 on: May 25, 2011, 12:58:46 PM »
MHK has 3... 3! disc golf courses!  :surprised:

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Re: Y-L_A's 785 Summer Survival Guide and Tips
« Reply #20 on: May 25, 2011, 02:01:31 PM »
wait, you can float the big blue? WHY DID NOBODY TELL ME THIS :shakesfist:

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Re: Y-L_A's 785 Summer Survival Guide and Tips
« Reply #21 on: May 25, 2011, 02:10:07 PM »
park your truck in rick daris's front lawn

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Re: Y-L_A's 785 Summer Survival Guide and Tips
« Reply #22 on: May 25, 2011, 02:16:58 PM »
:thumbs:
Where did you get that overnight bag?

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Re: Y-L_A's 785 Summer Survival Guide and Tips
« Reply #23 on: May 25, 2011, 02:26:48 PM »
 :thumbs: Hells Yes :thumbs:
Daris you call it yellow? thats weird I've always heard it called gold.  :dunno:
I think I still have some balls from the old Wilson Batting Cages meet u there after the rain clears up.
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Re: Y-L_A's 785 Summer Survival Guide and Tips
« Reply #24 on: June 16, 2011, 11:24:09 PM »
Summer is in full swing fellow EMAWrs, have you checked anything off of the list yet or maybe done some extra curricular things?!
Amazing. Going to start thinking about my summer theme song right away.
Did you choose one yet? Mine has been cruel summer by bananarama