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When's your spring break?

15 years ago

Ours starts this coming Monday!

Step gd is going to FL, but water should be cold.

She's cold natured, so she will enjoy the sun not the water.

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littlebit_gw
15 years ago
Mine starts tomorrow at 4:15 and will be for two glorious weeks..I dont have anything special planned but being off work is special enough!
drewsmaga
15 years ago
It's next week in TX. It's the week after in CO where the 4 GKs live & they're coming here then for a visit! WOOO-HOOO!
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Kathsgrdn
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Alex's is next week, he has no plans other than going to the orthodontist to remove a retainer and make a new removable one. The girls' is the first week in April and we are going to Disneyworld and Universal Studios. I can't wait, it'll be the first time I've ever stayed in a Disney hotel.
azzalea
15 years ago
In our county, it starts with Good Friday, and runs through the week after Easter--so it's over a month away yet. In the next county over, they get the week before Easter off plus Easter Monday.

Those of you who are getting these early breaks--do you still get a week (6 days, actually) off for Easter?
vala55
15 years ago
My life is a spring break, but not as exciting as what the kids do. I do what I want, never do anything I don't want to, no supervision, free as a bird. Ahhh............
samkaren
15 years ago
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lisa_fla
15 years ago
Ours is starting on the 26th-my birthday!
danihoney
15 years ago
Ours is the week following Easter.
bigfoot_liz
15 years ago
my dh is a grad student and today is his last weekdday for break @ UCF :-( he is a mechical engineer w/ City of Orlando and absolutely had to work M-Thur because they are writing new energy contracts right now and he's their analyst for it. he already had several class papers to write and turn in so he has not really had a break except going to classes m-thur 4:00-10pm. he is going shark fishing sat. and offshore fishing all day sunday, so atleast he got something fun in.

last month before my insane work started, we spent a few days staying at grand floridian in disney, i'm all disney'd out till the Food & Wine Festival. next weekend we're doing Universal Studios for 2 concerts. ~ liz
linda_in_iowa
15 years ago
Every week is spring vacation for me since I am retired. Next week is the break for the university and the schools here.
iowagirl2006
15 years ago
No spring break in our school. We do get out for the summer at the end of May though.
patti43
15 years ago
Glenda, sure hope it warms up before SGD gets here. The low tonight is supposed to be 33--which happens to be the same overnight low for Chicago. Brrrrr!

Enjoy your spring breaks everyone, but honestly I'd rather live where iowagirl lives and get out early.
sheilajoyce_gw
15 years ago
In the USA, Azzalea, we get one week off from school for spring break. It used to be a week before or after Easter, but nowadays, some school districts are trying to make the spring break fit the calendar better by being a week off closer to mid semester. Especially in years when Easter comes very early or very late, they are tempted to change the school holiday to provide more of a mid point holiday before the final mad dash to the end of the year, finals, and all the other concluding activities of the school year.
roseluver
15 years ago
My granddaughter was on spring break from college. Her brother and sister will be on spring break next week from high school.
drewsmaga
15 years ago
Arosegirl, do those kids all attend school in the same state? Here, in TX, ALL public schools in the state have the same break (don't know about the private ones) including the colleges. Makes life easier for parents planning time off work/vacations.
danihoney
15 years ago
We're in California too and they get out Thursday April 21 and go back May 2nd. School is out for the summer May 28th.

They are adding a "ski week" next year. I don't know if that will be in place of Spring break or in addition to.
sheilajoyce_gw
15 years ago
Usually Ski Week uses the holidays for the Presidents Holiday and maybe adds an additional holiday such as the state entrance into the USA holiday (cannot remember the name), which can be moved around. That makes for better ski weather in early February.
glenda_al
Original Author
15 years ago
Friend is headed to Utah for her skiing trip.

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