<p>My freshman daughter just found out she and her best friend, at colleges in different parts of the U.S., happen to have the same week off for spring break. Both girls are planning on coming home to Ohio for a week of R and R. </p>
<p>They plan to enjoy taking it easy and hanging out with each other and H.S. friends who are home for break or at schools in town or nearby. We will be happy to have her home.</p>
<p>I have to say, I am so profoundly grateful that D plays a spring sport - spring break is always a training trip. She gets to go someplace warm with friends, but without the nightmare aspects of woo-hoo-SPRING BREAK!!!</p>
<p>I’m coming home for Spring Break…we just bought my JetBlue tickets as they were having a sale. $150 all told, but I still have to buy my $58 shuttle tickets for the airport.</p>
<p>I have no desire to go get ****-faced drunk with a bunch of my peers on some beach in Mexico.</p>
<p>I would MUCH rather spend time on a nice beach in and around my hometown (yay SoCal!) with the friends I’ve had for 5+ years with some s’mores and Cherry Coke. :)</p>
<p>My d. is going on economic development study trip to Oaxaca with a bunch of mostly grad students during spring break. No beach included, and the reading and lectures prior are pretty heavy.</p>
<p>DD will not be coming home this year. She’ll be staying in her off-campus apartment.
She’s at a school whose bookstore sells a tee shirt that says (and I paraphrase):
I go to school where you spring break!</p>
<p>Son informed me he’s flying cross country from Boston to Seattle for spring break, says he wants to check it out. I have no idea why. His money, his time, his life…</p>
<p>4trees, you can rest assured that there won’t be any naked beach parties in Seattle in March! At least not on an outdoor beach… My guess is that he’s met friends from there and wants to visit. At it’s best, Seattle can be lovely in the spring. Crisp and cool and green and full of daffodils and flowering trees. At it’s usual, it will be wet, gloomy and cold. The perfect time to see if he’d ever want to consider a job offer from a company there.</p>
<p>S has the same break as his cousins in high school. Now a tradition that he goes to visit them at Easter. Makes every one happy as the grandparents are in the area, too.</p>
<p>D1 wanted to go away for spring break with her sorority. I told her it’s too bad because we are going Paris. It took her 30 seconds to change her mind. We are lucky her spring break is the same time as D2’s HS break.</p>
<p>One of the mysteries of grad student life. </p>
<p>He has a conference in Boston to attend but the question is whether he first lands at homebase in PDX, or alternative bases at his school in Toronto, job hunt in Seattle, or to Boston, from Berlin.</p>
<p>For real spring break at his German school, he had better be touring while he got the opportunity.</p>
<p>S1,a senior, is heading to the Florida Keys with a group of friends for one last hurrah together before they graduate in May. S1 has a job. He is paying.<br>
S2, a freshman, will be spending Spring Break here with us. He is broke. Mom and Dad don’t finance Spring Break vacations.</p>
<p>Thanks for posting the dates, midwestmom. I didn’t realize my son’s spring break was so much earlier than other schools. Apparently the popular destination, here in the north, is Canada. The only reasons I can guess is because of the drinking age and because it’s not as far as Mexico. I pushed for the alternative spring break trips, but “none of my friends want to go on those”. Is this another case where we, as parents, need to let go?</p>
<p>just spoke to DS; he called to tell me that he and a few friends are planning to go to Costa Rica over spring break. He has mild Asperger’s and although he has matured a great deal during the past 2-1/2 yrs since starting college he can still be pretty clueless socially and lacks a lot of “street smarts.” During his early childhood I prayed for the day when he did “normal” things like go on trips with friends over spring break; now I am a nervous wreck and am already envisioning his group sleeping on the beach somewhere (or worse!). Their break is at the end of Feb so hopefully it will not be too crazy down there (although maybe that’s not a hot spot for spring break anyway?). And of course his group of quirky friends are almost as clueless as S; they haven’t gotten as far as figuring out hotel arrangements yet but plan to check out some hostels, so if anybody has any ideas…??? Or has any thoughts on tourist attractions (or rather, distractions from too much partying!)</p>
<p>Although it was kind of cute that DS called before they actually bought the tickets - not to ask permission or anything (he is 21 and paying for it himself), but just to let me know (and I’ll even allow myself the delusion that maybe he even wanted my approval! :))</p>
<p>In San Jose: nice hotel w/breakfast Don Carlos Hotel</p>
<p>Sights: Monteverde<a href=“Cloud%20Forest”>/U</a> In the mountains. I’d say a “must.” Can do zip lines</p>
<p>Monteverde to Arenal<a href=“the%20volcano”>/U</a> a fabulous boat trip across Lake Arenal to town of Arenal --while there they can mountain bike or hike to see volcano up close and personal; there are several operators of thermal springs to do one night</p>
<p>Sarapiqui area: white water rafting </p>
<p>Tortuguero Carribbean coast area; lots of wild life, ocean; might consider staying there for several days rather than moving around</p>
<p>Pacuare river: very, very good whitewater rafting, I believe it can be done as a day excursion out of San Jose. We came from another direction.</p>
<p>Costa Rica is beautiful, but talk to your son about riptides. According to this US State Dept warning, each year 8-12 Americans drown in Costa Rica due to riptides and steep drop-offs.</p>
Who needs to fight the crowds on trendy Florida beaches?</p>![http://www.morris.umn.edu/events/BreakPhotos/2008/Ricc0051Large.jpg]Spring](http://www.morris.umn.edu/events/BreakPhotos/2008/Ricc0051Large.jpg%5DSpring){kind=link}
