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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  It's interesting to read these responses.  Just wanted to clarify a few things:

-If we did vacation with my parents, we would be fully paying our own way.  My parents have never offered to pay for anything for me since I was in college.  They have not given me a dime since college.  They would certainly never pay for our vacation, nor would I ever expect them to.

-We tend to only go on beach trips because we have very young kids and it's an easy vacation that is fun for them.  My parents also go on beach trips, however, it's to "fancy" beaches in Mexico, not your average New Jersey beach town.  However, since it's just the four of us on vacation, we always stay in a hotel, usually the nicest hotel in the beach town (which just isn't nice enough for my parents' standards).  We have never rented a beach house, though that is my dream--to rent a beach house with family for a week.  I know that will never happen though, either with my parents or with DH's family.

-My parents have never babysat my kids.  They wouldn't be able to, nor have I ever asked them.  So they know that babysitting is not an expectation if they were to vacation with us.

-The reason I want to vacation with them is to: a) see them more often than just twice a year, b) have a difference and more fun experience than when they come to our house and stay with us for 5 days, never wanting to do anything outside the house--that is just so boring to me, and c) to make meaningful family memories--and do something different for once other than them sitting on our sofa for 5 days not wanting to do anything.

[b]-Besides the beach town idea, I have also suggested a cruise, vacationing in other locales (such as Florida, Disney, etc.) to my parents.  They are not interested in any of those.  I am flexible with other suggestions but they only want to do "fancy" travel which is just not possible with our vacation time (one week max) and our budget.  Usually their trips are 3-4 weeks long which is just not feasible with our vacation time, budget and two very young kids.

-The idea of going on vacation with friends is appealing, and we have invited friends to vacation with us, but no one has ever been[/b] interested.  I think that people have their own ideas of how they want to vacation/cost is a big factor, so it's probably just going to be the four of us on vacation.  Which is fine, but I feel like it would be nice once in awhile to travel with other people too.[/quote]

Why can't you join them for one long-weekend leg of their longer vacation? Go to Mexico to a nice resort for four days, they stay longer...[/quote]

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