June 14, 2008. Let's game this summer cause it's fun and cheap.

What are you doing this summer? Vacation in Europe? Going to visit the relatives? How about camping out? We say the best thing to do is stay at home and game. We give you reasons why not to do anything else this summer.

The first thing you should know is that the dollar is falling like an Olympic diver. Yeah, you can still get cheap electronics from China. Great, but try getting a cheap room overseas. Not so great. So we recommend staying away from other countries where you pay more for less thanks to the falling dollar.

Now you say to yourself, you can stay within the country and travel by car. Unfortunately, the high gas prices means there's less places you can go on whatever budget you have. And any adult knows prices will rise until after the 4th of July and again for the last week of August. So that takes all your valuable holidays away.

It's already a real hot summer for most of the country, and it looks like it's going to get hotter. You can go to the beach if want to spend the gas money or live near a beach, otherwise, it's not an option.

There's also bad vegetables. Who knew tomatoes could turn on you other than in Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. But apparently, they can kill you with bacteria. So do you really want to go to that restaurant where they let some illegal wash your vegetables?

So why waste all that time and money doing stuff when for a lot less, you can buy or rent games and spend hours with the 360? Especially since the 360 has so many great games released this year.

Next week's blog, we're going to show you how to maximize the fun on your 360 this summer and how to keep it and yourself cool.