{"id":23029,"date":"2016-08-14T16:52:20","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T23:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23029"},"modified":"2016-08-14T16:52:20","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T23:52:20","slug":"five-summer-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/five-summer-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Things to Do Before Summer&#8217;s Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/fivetodo.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Got the blues? You&#8217;ll be soaring high if you take advantage of California&#8217;s diverse activities and attractions. Most\u00a0go all year long while others are over when summer&#8217;s gone.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li># 1 EXPOSE YOURSELF &#8212; To the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/museums\/directory.html\">world&#8217;s finest museums<\/a> throughout California. Many are free to see such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/museums\/malibu-getty.html\">The Getty Villa<\/a> (pictured) in Pacific Palisades. Note: With a few exceptions, mountain museums typically close in the fall and reopen the next spring around snowmelt.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0# 2 FLY HIGH &#8212; Take a ride in the open air and blue skies. Pictured is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/things-to-do\/california-biplane-rides.html\">biplane ride<\/a> departing\u00a0with views of the Pismo Beach Pier. Cool. You can ride a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/visit\/soaring-above-california-in-a-hot-air-balloon.html\">hot air balloon<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/sports\/la-jolla-glider-port.html\">hang glide<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/sports\/california-skydiving.html\">sky dive<\/a> if that&#8217;s more your style. Flying activities are weather-dependent.<\/li>\n<li># 3 CATCH THE LAST OF THE <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/entertainment\/concerts\/california-summer-concerts.html\">FREE SUMMER CONCERTS<\/a> &#8212; At cities throughout California. Some carry their events into September but most do not.<\/li>\n<li># 4 GET WET AND WORKOUT &#8212; Paddle boarding, Stand Up Paddle, Surfing, Skim Boarding, Swimming, Kayaking, Water Rafting, and Fishing are a few ways to stay cool and have fun, too.<\/li>\n<li># 5 THEME PARK THRILLS &#8212; There are dozens of new rides, exhibits, attractions and entertainment offerings this year at Disneyland, Universal Studios Hollywood, Knott&#8217;s Berry Farm,\u00a0two\u00a0Six Flags theme parks, Great America, Gilroy Gardens, Legoland California, SeaWorld, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/themeparks\/california-water-parks.html\">20+ Water Parks<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/zoos\/california-zoos.html\">20+ Zoos and Aquariums<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got the blues? You&#8217;ll be soaring high if you take advantage of California&#8217;s diverse activities and attractions. Most\u00a0go all year long while others are over when summer&#8217;s gone. # 1 EXPOSE YOURSELF &#8212; To the world&#8217;s finest museums throughout California. Many are free to see such as The Getty Villa (pictured) in Pacific Palisades. Note: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23029"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}