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[quote=Anonymous]Our oldest child will be a senior in HS this year and we would like to do a big trip the summer after she graduates (2015) before she heads off to college.  Our other children would be 14 and 12 when this trip would take place.  As a family, we have done Hawaii, Costa Rica and Mexico, as well as many of the 'big' destinations in the continental US (San Fran, Orlando, San Diego, NYC, Chicago, OBX, Boston, skiing in CO as well as Rocky Mtn Ntl Park  in the summer, and a few others).  We would like to try somewhere we've not been before, and because it's her graduation gift (to an extent), we are more or less letting DD take the lead in suggesting places she'd like to go within the following parameters:

- We have a maximum of two weeks for this trip.
- As a family, we like to do trips that are a combination of relaxation (beach), city-ish (shopping, museums, etc.), historical, and outdoorsy/adventurous (hiking, rafting, ziplining, etc.) Of course, our trip doesn't have to have all of the above, but we're not really the type to lay on the beach for an entire week or spend an entire trip climbing a mountain, either.
- Budget.  Obviously, airfare would be the biggest issue with Australia.  Depending on how much my husband travels for work in the next 12 months, based on my research we could have 1 or 2 tickets paid for with FF miles. That aside, is Australia an expensive country once you're there?  Including airfare, our budget would be about $10,000.

Does Australia sound like it could be a good fit for our trip?  Or does anyone have any other ideas?  Initially we were all on board with Europe (likely Itlay and France, possibly England, Ireland, Germany, or Denmark) but DD is determined to study abroad in Spain in college and has heard stories from friends in college about how they've been all over Europe while studying abroad, so she is apprehensive about doing Europe when she may be back there in a few short years.[/quote]

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