I'm researching good vacations for kids, and after finding this one, I really feel like I have nowhere else to go with the piece. That's pretty much kid-vacation nirvana right there.

"Hi, Killed anybody today?"

"Day ain't over yet."

Dinosaurs are cool, but space camp is a pretty tough competitor for kid vacation nirvana.

Wanna borrow my spurs, JF? ; )

(Why did I think this was Joe Famous's thread? Sorry, occhi... you can still borrow my spurs if you want, though... I think I need a nap.)

space camp is a pretty tough competitor for kid vacation nirvana.

For teenage males, the Alcoholism & Promiscuous Sex Camp is the ultimate getaway. Coinidentally it's my next business venture. Send money.

Space camp! Thanks, I'll look into that, too (though I'm trying to find destinations for the entire family, not just for the kids).

I want to go too. My kids would love this.

Occhiblu, I don't know if you have researched this yet, or if it fits with your article, but the Disney Cruise goes to Europe in 2007. A Disney cruise might be tolerable if I can end up in Spain.

Hee. The point is supposed to be active destinations for mostly independent travelers, so I'm trying to stay away from cruises and packaged tours and the like.

It is amazing, however, how much of that exists. I knew "family vacations" was an entire industry, but... man. It's a bit frightening.

Those all sound like good camps. Personally I'd like to be a drunk horny space cowboy who rides around on a dinosaur so if anyone sees a camp like that please email me.

I would still like to borrow your spurs, Pips.

Sexy, weird and strangely delicious things will be happening with and around me on New Years Eve. They'll probably come in handy.

(sounds like you may need the saddle, too, JF : )

DW, your space camp escort's here:

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(sorry, occhi, I'll stop now)

probably about 5° centigrade.

You have no idea how much my little budding paleontologist would love this. She has spent the past 2 days slowly chipping away at a block of plaster with fake t-rex bones inside. This...would blow her mind. Plus, she thinks paleonotologists are like rock stars. She met Joe from Blues Clues once and could not have cared less, but the paleontologists at the Academy of Natural Sciences left her speechless.

I know! This is... I mean, *I* would personally love it, but I can't imagine as a kid... Dinosaurs seemed like this big otherworldly thing, and here you are, able to help dig them up in Montana!

It does remind me, however, of the last time I was at the natural history museum in NYC. I was walking around all the dinosaur skeletons, and little boy was wide-eyed excited about them, dragging his extremely bored mom through the exhibits.

"What's this one?!?!?!" he asked.

"That's..." she trailed off, "a.... big one."

I wanted to scoop him up and give him an encyclopedia, or at least parents who tried. (How much better do you get than a kid who gets excited by a museum?)