"Yes, I'm happy," said Taylor Hennessey, recently a freshman at Solvay High School.

I didn't have to go to school and wake up early. And I have no homework," said Kinsey Alfieri, who just finished the fifth grade.

Other kids, however, don't share their enthusiasm.

"Not really, I love school!" said former second-grader Marissa Tiff.

Tiff admits, though, that she also enjoys hanging out with her dad.

"Yeah, I like that!" Tiff said. Which is why the two are spending the afternoon at the park.

"I told her I'd do something with her this week. And I brought her here," said dad John Tiff, of Central Square.

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"We're going to have a picnic," Hennessey said.

"We're just chillin', hanging out in the sunshine, enjoying the weather," said Darcy Shadoian, of Syracuse.

Now that the cold and the rain have moved out, and summer has moved in.

"It was a little ridiculous. I thought it would never be here. But it is. So we're going to enjoy it," Shadoian said.

Shadoian has a special visitor, her niece up from Virginia.

"I hang out with my Aunt Darcy and talk to my cousins, Gaby and Brooklyn," Alfieri said.

Other families' plans are more local.

"We're here at the park today. We go to the zoo often. And local areas, maybe Green Lakes a little bit," said Tracy Payrot, of Cicero.

Although parents may be spending the next couple of months in close quarters with their kids, they say they're not going to be looking forward to September.

"Not at all. Not at all," Payrot said.

"No. Not at all. I work a lot, so any time I get to spend with her, I enjoy it," Tiff said.

Until it's time to leave the park, and go back to school.