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