I grew up on a lake in the Summer months, too! My Grandparents had a place on Big Silver Lake in Wautoma, WI. Mom and Dad would drop Sis & I off for the Summer, and (maybe) visit on the weekends. ;)
It was/is a great life for a kid.
Nice, Diana...that must have been heaven! My wife’s Dad, Mom, brother and her would go up at the start of the season and drop off the trailer. Dad returned to the Bay Area for work. I think he was able to get a total of about a month off during the summer to join them, then came back up to bring them back home. My wife always talks fondly of it. It’s amazing a middle class family in the SF Bay Area could do that.
These days, with the modern rat race, it’s out of the question. Most people are scared to death to take off two consecutive weeks! And nothing is affordable any more.