It's Midsummer!

[MortarTeam]

Do you celebrate midsummer? How? Is it common in your country?
I live in Norway, but I was born and raised in Latvia. Back home, Ligo (it's what we call midsummer) is rivaled only by New Year. And even here I will still celebrate it as I did in Latvia: gather my friends, go to the countryside, make a big fire, buy a lot of beer, some cheese, and stay up all night and drink, eat, jump over the fire, laugh, and try to get a girl to go look for fern flowers with me, if you catch my drift!

 

[Dags90]

and try to get a girl to go look for fern flowers with me, if you catch my drift!

That's a fool's errand...you should ask her if she wants to see your epididymus.

There's no such celebration that is mainstream in the U.S., particularly because Midsummer is usually used as the beginning of meteorological summer. When I think "midsummer" I think mid/late-July, not summer solstice. To most Americans, this time of year marks the "official beginning" of summer.

 

[MortarTeam]

and try to get a girl to go look for fern flowers with me, if you catch my drift!

That's a fool's errand...you should ask her if she wants to see your epididymus.

There's no such celebration that is mainstream in the U.S., particularly because Midsummer is usually used as the beginning of meteorological summer. When I think "midsummer" I think mid/late-July, not summer solstice. To most Americans, this time of year marks the "official beginning" of summer.

Fern flower seeking is a traditional euphemism for you know what. Your euphemism is much more straight forward, and I am not sure if I will be able to pronounce it in ny-norsk after couple of liters of beer.
BTW it is a shame you yanks do not celebrate it. There are basically 2 great holidays, both based on sun cycles: Midsummer and Midwinter, which lives on as Christmas. But I guess thats all because Latvians never were really Christianized, and our brothers, Lithuanians were the last official Pagans in Europe. We celebrate holidays the rest of the world already forgot about.