Summer is here and you know what that means! Wildness! Partying! Teenage shenanigans! If you’re feeling gutsy but don’t really know where to start, The Reckoner has got you with a handy Summer Bucket List. Ready to get your freak on? Let’s go!
❒ Bike to the beach and watch a sunset
❒ Eat two crepes at Krepesz, an awesome crepe café in Kensington Market
❒ Perform a mashup of two songs (it doesn’t matter if you can’t sing)
❒ Bike through Centre Island
❒ Walk a friend’s dog
❒ Walk a friend’s cat
❒ Read The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
❒ Make a giant Ferrero Rocher
❒ Go on a midnight adventure
❒ Sneak into the 15th floor of a random corporate building
❒ Try a beaver tail
❒ Eat at a gourmet food truck
❒ Tell your parents you love them
❒ Walk around downtown wearing conspicuous face paint
❒ Attend a concert
❒ Visit the CNE and try a deep fried Twix bar
❒ Skateboard down the ravine near our school
❒ Listen to the entire soundtrack of Hamilton
❒ Go to karaoke with friends
❒ Binge at a sushi bar
❒ Climb over a fence
❒ Set off fireworks on a night that’s not a holiday
❒ Celebrate someone’s birthday
❒ Plant a cactus
❒ Finish that book you’ve been meaning to finish
❒ Marathon a TV series
❒ Sleepover at a friend’s house
❒ Talk to a stranger on the subway
❒ Give money to a homeless person
❒ Try every type of donut in Tim Hortons
❒ Go to a party
❒ Learn how to do a cartwheel
❒ Dance to Uptown Funk in the rain
❒ Visit the cat café before it closes
❒ Go camping with your friends
❒ Roast marshmallows over a fire
❒ Throw a party
❒ Enjoy a picnic at Edwards Gardens
❒ Go thrift shopping
❒ Go out in public dressed in a onesie
❒ Stargaze as best as you can under the city’s light pollution
❒ Eat at a Summerlicious restaurant (event lasts from July 8-24)
❒ Make a vlog
❒ Watch a play downtown
❒ Have a lazy day in
❒ Watch live slam poetry
❒ Go to an outdoor movie screening
❒ Play Ultimate with your friends
❒ Try exercising for a day
❒ Take a road trip to a place you’ve never been before
Rock on, my dudes. We’ll see you next year!