Less than two weeks till Spring Break!

Ask me where I'm going for Spring Break and my answer changes from week to week. 6 weeks ago, I would've told you that I was going on a solo trip to Monument Valley in Arizona. At 5 weeks, my mom and sister were going to show me around Paris, since I've never been. 4 weeks away; I was going to go to Australia with my mom and dad. With 3 weeks left, I was back to the Arizona trip alone. Now, with 2 weeks to plan, my mom is making wild suggestions like Hawaii (they normally hate Hawaii), Montreal, New York, Chicago, Costa Rica, Greece, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Saigon! Tokyo is looking more and more likely, however, it's all subject to change at the last minute. This is just how crazy my family is. When they ask where you want to go on vacation and you say, jokingly "How about an African Safari?", my mom will say, "Ok, I'll look into it." No place is out of the question. And what's more, it's not like we plan trips a year or even 2 weeks in advance. They are always planned at the last minute, even sometimes the day of. For instance, almost a month exactly after Sept. 11, when people were afraid to fly and fares were cheap, I came home from an SAT one morning to a phone message like this: "Hi, Kate. It's mom. It's about 11:30. I was thinking that you should go to Scotland this weekend to visit Ginny (my sister who was living there at the time). The plane would leave today around 3 o'clock and you'd get back on Monday during the day. Call me back right away, so I can confirm reservations. Oh, and start packing if you decide to go." So, I packed in 20 minutes and within a few hours, I was waiting at the airport for my plane to arrive. It's a 13 hour plane ride each way and I spent less than 48 hours in Scotland. When I got to school the next day, and friends asked where I was, I told them, "In Scotland." I love my family and our spontaneity.