Summer holiday plans?????

[bright sparks]

Sesame Place is awesome, I took my kids a number of years ago. I highly recommend booking the character lunch, its not priced like Disney so much more affordable and every character goes to ever single child and spends time with them and there is a huge dance off with everyone in the place...I have a whole album from this trip and have many fond memories. PA is great for kids as there is the Crayola Factory there too which is a cheap day out and also the Hershey Factory. I have the last week of August booked off so may venture down for a few days as PA has an amazing Science centre.

This year is all about my kids so no family vacation. We seem to go away every other year and every other trip is a big one so the one in between is a cheap Florida villa rental...to be honest they are the best We went to Florida last August and then 2011 went to Europe for 3 weeks...UK, Czech Rep and Italy. Next year my neice is getting married in the UK so we are planning on going there for a few days, week tops and then renting a house in France...just looking into that now. My son and hubby are going camping while my daughter is away so I have the opportunity to travel alone for a few days but I have no idea where to go or what to do.

My daughter, 13, is going to a 2 week French camp that is residential, a week of day camp to do leadership development with pathfinders and then 2 weeks of day camp along with my son, 11, at the YMCA to do their Leader in training program. He is also doing a weeks day camp at a university campus in video game development. Add on to that swimming lessons, and there is a really good chance that the week off I take, I'll be doing a whole lot of nothing

[AmandaKDT]

We are going to Minneapolis at the end of June. Not the most exciting destination, but it is the closest place we could drive to that has lots of stuff to do. It will be the first time we have gone on any kind of trip with our two girls and hopefully it goes well. It is a 7.5 hour drive, so we plan on staying over night in Fargo as it is half way in between. My girls barely last the 2 hour drive to my parents' house so there is no way we are going all the way there in one shot.

but my older daughter (almost 5) is very excited about staying in a hotel and going to the Barbie Dream House in Mall of America. I think it will be a good time!

We hope to go on a bigger trip in 2 years, go on an airplane to somewhere exciting. I think 2 years of saving will get us there!

[bright sparks]

We are going to Minneapolis at the end of June. Not the most exciting destination, but it is the closest place we could drive to that has lots of stuff to do. It will be the first time we have gone on any kind of trip with our two girls and hopefully it goes well. It is a 7.5 hour drive, so we plan on staying over night in Fargo as it is half way in between. My girls barely last the 2 hour drive to my parents' house so there is no way we are going all the way there in one shot.

but my older daughter (almost 5) is very excited about staying in a hotel and going to the Barbie Dream House in Mall of America. I think it will be a good time!

We hope to go on a bigger trip in 2 years, go on an airplane to somewhere exciting. I think 2 years of saving will get us there!

What is there to do in Minneapolis? I like to take driving holidays into the states!!

[AmandaKDT]

What is there to do in Minneapolis? I like to take driving holidays into the states!!

There is the Mall of America that is huge - it has the Nickeleon Amusement Park inside it and a big aquarium that is a tunnel that you can walk through and see the marine life all around you.

There is a huge water park right near Mall of America.

There are river boat cruises on the Mississippi.

They have a permanent outdoor amusement park too called Valley Fair.

Minneapolis is a pretty big city, so there are museums and a zoo and that type of stuff too.

In August I believe there is also a big festival.