<p>My husband traded a week on the beach in a condo for some work. It isn’t too far from us and we are not beach people so we gave the week to our daughter. Some of her friends plan to join her. Far enough away so they can misbehave as college kids will, but close enough in case they do something really stupid and need help. :)</p>
<p>DD is coming home.</p>
<p>I am going on Spring Break!! D2 wants me to meet her in Orlando and do Universal/Harry Potter World. I can’t wait! We’ll do 2 Disneyworld days too. Of course, I am footing the entire bill but I’m really looking forward to some quality time with my girl. DH will stay home and take care of the cats. I could use the break from work. Whoohoo!</p>
<p>My sons are coming home. Too bad their spring breaks don’t match up.</p>
<p>ihs
I sooo want to come with you!!!</p>
<p>meeting D in southern spain during her break. going skiing 1 day to Sierra Nevada, doing other things in the city in which she is staying. She then separates from us and goes to paris for a few days.</p>
<p>she has another break during Holy Week which she is trying to plan. wants to go to Italy. If anyone has any cost effective suggestions on getting to Italy from southern Spain, let me know. The flights during Holy Week look a little pricey, not ridiculous but it is a student on a budget!</p>
<p>Son is very happy to come home see the dogs, visit with family and watch March Madness! He will be staying at college this summer so we are happy that he is home over spring break.</p>
<p>DD did an alternative spring break volunteer program last year (she was named Volunteer of the Year at her school!). This year, she planned to drive with a friend who lives in Ithaca to Cornell to visit some friends and then head home with one of them when her spring break began which would have given her 2 days with us. Last night, she called and told us she has decided to come home for the entire break. It’s her youngest brother’s birthday and he’s doing his first school play and she’ll be able to see it. She was in the same play when she was in the same grade. She has 2 research papers to do and plans to go to the library during the day when her brothers are at school and then hang with us and her visiting friends at night.</p>
<p>She has applied for an oncampus job and if she gets it, she’ll be gone from mid-June until school starts again in August so we are glad she’ll be here for spring break.</p>
<p>She has a small amount of financial aid but we are primarily private pay with merit money and a private scholarship from her volunteer work in HS.</p>
<p>I never went on a spring break when I was in college and I would never pay for one of my children to do one of those “Girls Gone Wild” binges. I did pay for the Alternative break trip last year.</p>
<p>right on heyalb…wondering the same thing…How many of these kids with the fancy spring breaks were “need based”</p>
<p>^
Why would that be any of your business?</p>
<p>I never went anywhere on spring break when I was in university. I lived in the same town where I went to high school. My daughter, on the other hand, went to Mexico with a friend of hers for one of her spring breaks. The difference? I was one of four kids in my family, with two of them coming up behind me. My daughter is the only child. I could not have done that with four kids. I couldn’t even afford to house and feed four kids let alone send them all to Mexico. Now of course I would prefer to send her to Cuba if she was still in college. It’s much safer than Mexico and the beaches are better.</p>
<p>DD is coming home next week. DS’s spring break is the next week. He is in his first year of grad school and doesn’t have alot of friends at school. His spring break doesn’t match up with his GF’s or friends from undergrad so he’s going to visit his little sister at her school in Minnesota. Because he was already in college, he never went with us to visit her school and she is THRILLED that he is finally coming. I’m pretty proud that he’d spend his spring break to see his sister and in Minnesota no less!</p>
<p>M’sMom, that is such a sweet story!</p>
<p>In terms of the financial side of spring break, we decided this before DS went to college.</p>
<p>We said he could attend college wherever he wanted, but we had $X to put toward college. That meant that if he went to UChicago we could handle it (after their UC’s financial aid package), but it would mean no overseas study, no spring break travel, no unpaid summer internship, etc. At the other end of the spectrum, if he chose Michigan (in-state with merit money), he would have the ability to do all those things - within reason. He chose Michigan, so he just got back from staying with friends in Salt Lake City and skiing for 5 days.</p>
<p>I think he made the right choice.</p>
<p>Mine will be staying on campus, writing her senior thesis. Or so she says…</p>
<p>DD is spending 2 days @ disneyland on her way home for the spring break. We’ll be funding the expenses.</p>
<p>Mine are working. They have to work. They have jobs waiting for them that are just too lucrative and the cost of college is just too high. If they can work maximum hours this break, it will be a full month of room and board payment for them. My college son has a 'dream job" offer for the summer, but the pay is not good, though I am grateful that it pays at all given the way many internships have gone, so he won’t be making much towards his college year costs as he usually has. He’ll be lucky if saves anything this summer.</p>
<p>D is going to Tibet on a highly subsidized service trip sponsored by her college. She paid for the entire trip with her summer earnings. She will be staying in a monastery in a really remote village for 10 days. I for one welcome the fact that she got this opportunity to relax a little. She has worked really hard and absolutely deserves this break.</p>
<p>Son#1- St. Thomas
Son#2- Caribbean Cruise.</p>
<p>My only and incredible spring break, way back when, was to Acapulco with 11 others. 6 guys, 6 girls. Stayed in a house on the beach that one of the girls (was from Mex. City) grandparents owned. Her Dad got us a car rental- unairconditioned Volkswagon Minibus, which was arranged before we got there.</p>
<p>I’m a sophomore in college and paying for my entire spring break trip with some of the money I earned during the summer. I am staying with one of my best friends, who goes to Berkeley, for 10 days. I did the same thing for spring break last year. It’s a great opportunity for me to get away, relax, and spend time with someone who means a lot to me and won’t be able to see very often from now on (she’s planning to stay up there during the summer, winter, etc. because parents moved back to china). We’re still a bit unsure about what we’re going to do, but all I know is that we’ll have a lot of fun! :)</p>