<p>MarinMom, I could spend spring break hiking Mt. Tamalpais, hanging around Stinson Beach, lunching in Sausalito, etc. etc. I’m in the coastal San Diego area, so, yeah, we don’t really need to “escape” for spring break! D spent most of winter break sleeping in, hanging around in pajamas, playing piano, running on the beach, seeing a few movies, eating whatever/whenever she wanted, seeing a few friends. She was delighted to not be busy every second! And I agree with you on the need for broadening minds, including travel. We’ve budgeted for that, too.</p>
<p>Son is DC is going to visit his brother in New Orleans. Son in New Orleans is cleaning his room in preparation for a visit from his big brother.</p>
<p>Escaping MN cold spring is a family tradition.</p>
<p>Hey, if any of you have kids who are ticked because they aren’t going anywhere fun for spring break…my kid is having a colonoscopy!</p>
<p>Home… applied for one of the several campus run service trips (which cost anywhere from $500 and up) but they were oversubscribed by 2nd week back to school!</p>
<p>I went on spring break in the 80’s. I was at Comm college & paying my own way. 24 hr drive to Fort Lauderdale w/ 9 kids in a large suburban. Very fun…</p>
<p>D is a senior. The only Spring Break she ever had was last year during Study Abroad. Went to Mallorca. Her Spring EC will have practices/games as usual. However, for MY Spring Break, I will get to go watch 10 games!</p>
<p>MarinMom, we kind of take the museums for granted after a while. Whenever someone comes to visit, we go. Now that there’s the Air & Space Annex at Dulles, there’s more fun!</p>
<p>D is doing a alternative spring break Service Trip in Jamaica. In the countryside north of Kingston, not on the beach. (Except the last day, they get to go to the beach). 
And BTW, sopranomom, this is being paid for by MY money, not your tax dollars. D asked for this trip as her one and only Christmas present. </p>
<p>S is coming home. He’s never traveled on Spring break, except the semester he was on study abroad in Spain, and did a tour of Italy and Greece during his break week.</p>
<p>D1 is going away with her sorority sisters for the spring break for the first time in four years. She has gone away with us for every one of her spring break with us, but this is her senior year. She is paying for the trip herself from her summer saving. They are going to Cancun, a very nice resort. The whole trip is organized by D1. After the trip, D1 is coming home to Mexico City to visit us for 4 days. It also happens to be D2’s ballet recital, so D1 will get to watch her younger sister dance. </p>
<p>I warned D1 not to leave the resort, no clubbing. I am tempted to turn the GPS feature on her iPhone while she is in Cancun.</p>
<p>Acapulco used to be an easy, fun weekend place for us to go to, but after the recent killings, we are staying away until the situation is under control. At the moment, Cancun is still quite safe.</p>
<p>I will tell a funny story about Mexico…</p>
<p>We moved here about a year ago. H and I still do not speak Spanish. When we first moved here, we used to get a lot of phone calls in Spanish, and we would just hang up because we didn’t understand what they were saying and we figured they were telemarketers. </p>
<p>Few weeks ago, one of D2’s friends had dinner with us. She told us a story about how someone called her grandfather one day to tell him that they have kidnapped one of his sons. Her grandfather believed them and paid the ransom. As it turned out, his son was perfectly fine, never kidnapped. This young woman told us that it was a common practice.</p>
<p>I looked at H and said, “It’s a good thing we didn’t understand Spanish. Could you imagine if one of those phone calls was to tell us D2 was kidnapped and we just hung up the phone on them?”</p>
<p>Sometimes ignorance is a blessing.</p>
<p>D bringing roomie home and going camping/hiking. yes they could afford more but i think this is priceless.</p>
<p>D will be home, relaxing (midterms will be behind her by then). Family is coming in from out of town, so she’ll be doing some Relative Duty. A couple of get-togethers with friends are scheduled, I think. And, in what is becoming a tradition, the three of us will go out to dinner the night before she goes back.</p>
<p>I live in Maine and my son is in Austin. I’m no dummy - I’m going down there for spring break! My parents have a condo on Mustang Island (Corpus Christi), so we’ll spend most of the week there. :)</p>
<p>My D and her friend are going to NYC for spring break. Her dad and I paid for her plane ticket (super cheap) and a hotel (a Hotwire bargain) for them so they can stay close to all the Braodway action. Her birthday is in April and this is our present to her. She and her friend are theatre majors so this is a great chance to go see shows and hopefully fit in an audition or 2. She has to be back to campus early for work/rehearsal so we are happy to treat her. And we’re going to Myrtle Beach in April to see her and lounge around on the beach while she is in class so I guess turn-about is fair play And yes, between those 2 trips that is our family vacation for the year!</p>
<p>D is a senior this year and has been looking forward to NOT coming home during Spring Break for the first time. She and 3 friends are doing a road trip–they’ve been discussing it for 3 years. Originally the plan was to visit New York, Boston and Montreal, but she just called to say that, instead, they are going to Asheville, NC (we were there on one of her college road trips and she always wanted to return with her friends) and Virginia Beach. I actually feel better about that and glad she is excited!</p>
<p>Eggson and 3 HS friends are planning a road trip to Colorado where they will stay with grandparents of one of the boys.</p>
<p>I suspect they will throw some bread and peanut butter in the car for their meals and splurge on ramen when they get there. They are collectively very frugal. Eggson will pay his own way with money he has earned. I might pitch in some gas money as a bday present.</p>
<p>I have no problem with the $$ side of this proposition. I am somewhat concerned about their ability to navigate, but I guess Colorado is a pretty big target.</p>
<p>D1 will be spending her spring break at her aunt’s vacation condo in Scottsdale, Arizona. Her grandmother, who will also be there, is paying the air fare. The rest of the trip is on my daughter’s tab. D1 is pretty frugal and has socked so much money away from her summer job and campus jobs that her bank account probably looks healthier than ours at this point.</p>
<p>My wife and I will be taking our own spring break trip this year. We’ll be visiting colleges with D2. No exotic locales. Just Ohio and Western Pennsylvania. Better than staying home watching the snow slowly melt.</p>
<p>My DD is going to Binghamton, NY, for a couple of days. So exotic. There will be no tanning! But she will have a great time visiting her friends there.</p>
<p>For the first time in 4 years my D is going away for Spring Break, with my blessing. She and her friend are going to Florida to visit my mother-in-law and then they are taking a 4 day cruise. Both girls have worked hard, both academically and to earn money, and we are all happy for them to take this break. They budgeted very well, and to be honest, I would have flown her home for break anyway. So, now all I hope is that they relax and have a wonderful time.</p>
<p>mine will be coming home for the week</p>