Here in the US we've started Spring Break week. The kids get a week off from school, some use it as a time for family vacation, and some use it simply as a time to regroup and get things done. Here at SSYC, we're going to celebrate with a week's worth of contests!
Today, you have the chance to win a skein of your choice of Smooshy with Cashmere from Dream in Color (shown above in Morning Glory and below in Flower Drum Song). We just received a restock and new colors (like the whole Hamilton Color Collection) in this super soft cashmere blend, and all you have to do is answer the question below for your chance to win.
Where would you like to go for a week's vacation (if cost were no impediment)? Are your kids old enough that Disney is now an option? Or are you the type that wants to sit in a café in Paris and enjoy a pastry with your love? Perhaps you'd like a week alone to relax and be by yourself? Tell us all about it before noon EST on Saturday, April 8 and I'll randomly choose one person to win a skein of your choice.
I really want to take my kids somewhere beachy with family activities. But the idea of flying with two little boys or driving 20 hours gives me pause every time I start planning. I mean, I love my kids but put them together in the backseat for more than two hours and they will be arguing over the same Legos and complaining enough about having to go to the restroom again that I might turn back. We did go from Indiana to Maryland Sheep and Wool last year, and they did fine, so perhaps I should seriously consider a longer trip?
I would love a hiking and beach adventure in Hawaii :)
Posted by: Johane | April 04, 2017 at 06:04 PM
I don't like to fly but I would love to go up the coast of Maine, take the ferry over to Nova Scotia and then travel to Newfoundland. I read about Newfoundland years ago and have wanted to go ever since.
Posted by: Suzanne | April 04, 2017 at 06:27 PM
I'm so splitting hairs here... where would *I* go or where would I go with kiddo on spring break? *I* would go to Scotland for a week. It's been on my list for years and seems even more compelling now that Outlander is a visual thing ;)
If I were taking kiddo at this time of year, then somewhere beachy maybe? I'm so tired of being cold. Maybe carribean? If I were taking kiddo just on a week's all expenses paid vacation, Harry Potter park in Florida. But I'd never do it around spring break!
More than you wanted to know :) Thanks for the chance to win and your spring break fun.
Posted by: jo | April 04, 2017 at 06:33 PM
My husband and I would return to Dublin and stay at the same hotel as we did previously on a wonderful trip ...
Posted by: G. K. Green | April 04, 2017 at 06:35 PM
If cost were no issue, I'd like to go back to San Francisco and spend a week in wine country. We were there once before and missed doing that, ran out of time. It's beautiful, peaceful, and has lots of wine.
Posted by: Judi Kennedy | April 04, 2017 at 06:36 PM
I want to visit any place with sunshine! This has been the grayest, gloomiest winter I can remember. It doesn't have to be hot, just bright.
My DD loves Hamilton. We have the soundtrack on all the time. I would choose either Eliza or Shuyler. All the colors are so beautiful.
Thanks,
Kathleen
Posted by: Kathleen McCunn | April 04, 2017 at 06:37 PM
I would love.a week in Maui - so beautiful and relaxing!
Posted by: Leann Demeduk | April 04, 2017 at 06:55 PM
So many places.... Probably Galapagos Islands or an African safari. But I would want more than a week.
Posted by: Sarah | April 04, 2017 at 07:05 PM
A trip to the Bahamas with family and extended family - mom, sister and brother and their families
Posted by: Anne | April 04, 2017 at 07:33 PM
I would love to take my kids to see the Azores so they can see where their grandparents came from. The islands are so beautiful. It's like living in another world.
Posted by: Sue | April 04, 2017 at 07:38 PM
An Alaskan cruise is my dream vacation! I think it would be so gorgeous!
Posted by: Holly W | April 04, 2017 at 07:39 PM
Would always choose Italy! Would take my knitting group. Wonderful- culture, wonderful food and knitting!
Posted by: LynnIL | April 04, 2017 at 07:41 PM
My favorite place is the Blue Fin Bay resort on the north shore of Lake Superior. I take my knitting down to the rocks with a glass of wine and listen to the birds and the waves of the lake.
Posted by: Judi S | April 04, 2017 at 07:42 PM
If money were not object, I'd love to go to London to see where my grandparents are from :-)
Posted by: Lynne Nagle | April 04, 2017 at 07:50 PM
I would stay in a villa in Tuscany and pretend I was a local for a week. Wine, cheese, bread, pasta, and knitting. A village on the coast of Ireland would suffice as well.i
Posted by: Sally Summerfield | April 04, 2017 at 07:53 PM
I would love to go to Paris!
Posted by: Joan | April 04, 2017 at 08:02 PM
Vermont in the fall-at a bed and breakfast with a rocking chair on the front porch and a crackling fire at night. Both conducive to great knitting! đ
Posted by: Beth | April 04, 2017 at 08:07 PM
I would love to return to the coast of Galicia, Spain.... I got to spend a few days there some years back and was utterly enchanted. It's a beautiful countryside, with stone-built houses, grassy fields full of sheep, and rocky cliffs overlooking the sea. Wonderful for hiking, sunning, and generally relaxing, there aren't many tourist attractions besides the natural landscape, and that's just the way I like it. I hope to take my boyfriend to see it one day.
Posted by: Loribird | April 04, 2017 at 08:12 PM
I'd like to go to Norway and Sweden! Interesting cities, beautiful hiking, and of course lots of yarn.
Posted by: Sylvie | April 04, 2017 at 08:27 PM
Faroe Islands
Posted by: Teresa C | April 04, 2017 at 08:33 PM
Absolutely a week in London, so many museums, shops, and just great things to see, like catch a glimpse of the royals, and do.
Posted by: Cheryl | April 04, 2017 at 08:34 PM
I would love to go on a European river cruise if cost was not an object. I love to travel but hate living out of a suitcase so this would be perfect!
Posted by: Kay | April 04, 2017 at 08:36 PM
Iceland. It's cold, scenic, and I hear there are lots of sheep and people with a deep appreciation for good knitwear.
Posted by: Lisa | April 04, 2017 at 08:37 PM
I'd like to take the kids to Hawaii. While Kauai was my favorite, I think the kids would love the Big Island and Maui.
Posted by: Sherryn | April 04, 2017 at 08:37 PM
Scotland!! I want to wander all over the Highlands, visit my favorite city Edinburgh, visit my favorite island Skye, and bag a Munro or two.
Posted by: Carolyn Zewe | April 04, 2017 at 08:51 PM
I would love to go to Ireland and Italy.
Posted by: Maureen | April 04, 2017 at 08:58 PM
I would love to take cooking classes in Italy.
Posted by: Mary | April 04, 2017 at 09:01 PM
I would like to go to Scandinavia for the summer solstice. Hours and hours of daylight!
Posted by: Mary R | April 04, 2017 at 09:08 PM
I would love to go to the beach... anywhere!! I've never flown and I've never seen the ocean or the mountains. This is on my bucket list before I turn 50!!
Posted by: Melissa Loback | April 04, 2017 at 09:26 PM
If money's no object, I'm going to go the furthest I can. The Banda Islands near New Guinea, the original home of nutmeg.
Posted by: Sandy | April 04, 2017 at 09:26 PM
Where would you like to go for a week's vacation (if cost were no impediment)?
New Zealand
Posted by: Elizabeth | April 04, 2017 at 09:39 PM
My dream vacation is Ireland, but a week wouldn't do that trip justice. If I only had a week long trip, I'd find a rental house on a nice quiet lake and spend my days kayaking and knitting!
Posted by: Karen G. | April 04, 2017 at 09:55 PM
A yarn, fabric, and garden shopping spree, maybe in Portland
Posted by: Anna Baker | April 04, 2017 at 10:16 PM
I would love to spend a week or 4 listening to the ocean and gazing at redwoods with friends south of San Francisco
Posted by: Mary Tymeson | April 04, 2017 at 10:17 PM
Itsly
Posted by: Melissa | April 04, 2017 at 10:21 PM
Hmm. Either the Alabama inland cruise or a week at a pet friendly cabin on a lake ( for kayaking) near a flyfishing river for my husband. A week on a Caribbean beach would be great!
Posted by: Pat | April 04, 2017 at 10:28 PM
Me. Beach. Warm. Quiet. Perfect.
Posted by: Christine | April 04, 2017 at 10:33 PM
A villa in Italy with my friends. We could make art, drink wine, and eat pasta.
Posted by: Christine Newman Aumiller | April 04, 2017 at 10:52 PM
I would love to explore Germany, Austria and Italy with my DH and 3 teenagers, to give them a better sense of history, and appreciate other cultures.
Posted by: Suzanne paquin | April 04, 2017 at 10:55 PM
Hawaii and the Great Sequoias in California .. money no object? Let's travel the entire world!!!!
Posted by: April | April 04, 2017 at 11:05 PM
I'm kind of obsessed with Scotland these days so that is what I would pick. I'd love to see the Highlands and the yarn shops in Edinburgh for sure.
Posted by: Ramona | April 04, 2017 at 11:12 PM
I am retired so don't have work constraints. I am currently on a week long trip bicycling in Fredericksburg, Texas...and I wear my hand knit cycling socks, known as ankle socks to non cyclists. But I do want to return to cycle in France one day.
Posted by: Jeanne Bush | April 04, 2017 at 11:52 PM
Hawaii. I've wanted to go since I was a kid & Sesame Street did a week's shows there.
Posted by: sprite | April 04, 2017 at 11:57 PM
If money wasn't an issue, is live to go to the South Pacific. First class, of course!! I would love to have this adventure with my daughter, who has been away at college. The thought of snorkling in the crystal clear waters instantly relaxes me. I'd love to spend my days and nights relaxing in a over the water cabana!! Knitting with yarns the same colors of the ocean. Perfect!!
Posted by: Valerie Whelan | April 05, 2017 at 12:24 AM
I have always wanted to visit Tibet. Of ourse mydream three month vacation of working my way from Maine to the Forida Keys would be doable (and now Cuba can be inluded)
Posted by: Teresa Wall | April 05, 2017 at 12:41 AM
I have always wanted to go to Norway!
Posted by: Linda Maher | April 05, 2017 at 01:11 AM
Greece. I remember learning about ancient Greece for the first time in junior high social studies class, and being just fascinated that the ancient sites were still there to be seen.
Posted by: Carol | April 05, 2017 at 01:12 AM
I would love to take the children back to Europe, Amsterdam in Spring for the tulips, windmills, clogs and cheese - Those tulips provide an amazing colour palette for any yarn way! Also, Edinburgh in August for the Tattoo festival would be divine! With or without the kids!
Posted by: Zoe Juniper | April 05, 2017 at 01:42 AM
Hiking with husband at his family's cabin without the brain cancer he has had for 15 months. Reallyanywhere without the brain cancer. I treasure those times so exquisitely.
Posted by: Martha Anne | April 05, 2017 at 02:33 AM
I'd like to take a trip through western Canada on the Rocky Mountaineer train. I would want to take one of the itineraries that includes two nghts in the Chateau at Lake Louise.
Posted by: Marjorie Millner | April 05, 2017 at 02:41 AM
I would go on one of the Rocky Mountaineer trips. I'd also like to add the Alaska Cruize option but that'd be more than a week.
Posted by: Donna | April 05, 2017 at 04:05 AM
I'd love to see some sheep in Scotland and Ireland!
Posted by: Barbara | April 05, 2017 at 04:37 AM
I'd love to just travel all over Europe by luxury train Paris, Italy, Greece.
Posted by: Karol | April 05, 2017 at 05:06 AM
British Isles and Shetland Islands with just my husband.
Posted by: Catherine | April 05, 2017 at 06:39 AM
Finland, to see the Northern Lights
Posted by: Elizabeth D | April 05, 2017 at 06:45 AM
I would like to see Hawaii by cruise ship. There is a 7 island cruise that I have had my eye on for a while. Dream on.
Posted by: JAN | April 05, 2017 at 06:56 AM
I would go to Glacier National Park if I had a full week. Yellowstone and India are close seconds, but right now, I just want to see this park.
Posted by: Kettlesmith | April 05, 2017 at 06:58 AM
I'd have a hard time choosing between seeing the glaciers, polar bears and musk oxen (qiviut!) of Alaska versus the Galapagos (I studied evolutionary biology). I have never been to either place and both would be incredible to me!
Posted by: Jessica | April 05, 2017 at 07:46 AM
I'd love to take the Rocky Mountaineer train from Vancouver to Calgary and then road trip around Canada and the USA.
Posted by: OzKnitter | April 05, 2017 at 07:54 AM
There is a tiny castle for sale in GB and I would love to purchase it, sit in the gardens and watch my son run around. That would be heaven!
Posted by: Kate | April 05, 2017 at 08:03 AM
My latest desire is to visit Amsterdam.
Posted by: Kristi | April 05, 2017 at 08:05 AM
It sounds absolutely cliché, but I'd want to go to Disney World. Our family was too large to go within our budget, even though we lived in Florida for a time. My daughter is no almost 10 and she's never been. I think it'd be the most exciting vacation for both of us. We're both Disney junkies.
Posted by: Dezarae | April 05, 2017 at 08:52 AM
I would love to go somewhere tropical and warm followed by Paris and then the UK.
Posted by: The Inspired Stitcher | April 05, 2017 at 08:55 AM
I'd like to see Ireland and Scotland, where our families come from. I'd especially like to see the Shetland Isles. Just my husband and me, with time to walk and just be.
Posted by: Michelle McCrillis | April 05, 2017 at 09:58 AM
I would love to travel to Scotland. If money were no object, rent a home base house for a month and settle into getting to know the locals, the cuisine, the essence of the country by traveling to the different historical sites and immersing myself into their culture.
Posted by: kay Burgess | April 05, 2017 at 10:06 AM
The amalfi coast!
Posted by: Antoinette Overton | April 05, 2017 at 10:27 AM
id live to take my kids to Hawaii. My sister lives there now and she would love the visit. My kids would think it was pretty great too!
Posted by: Leigh | April 05, 2017 at 10:41 AM
Ireland or a Scandinavian cruise.
Posted by: Katie M. | April 05, 2017 at 10:57 AM
A British Isles cruise is at the top of my bucket list.
Posted by: Gail | April 05, 2017 at 11:06 AM
Right now I'm in an Iceland or Scotland for some hiking kinda mood. But sitting in a café in Paris with my honey is always appealing--and there are a couple of new yarn/tea shops in Paris I have not yet visited...and, isn't the Samaritaine remodel due to be finished in 2017???
Posted by: Nicole | April 05, 2017 at 11:50 AM
Germany!!! My moms family is from Germany and some day want to go see all the towns they came from.
Posted by: Nancy | April 05, 2017 at 12:09 PM
If cost didn't matter, I'd rent a private jet and take my husband and the tandem bike to Belgium for the spring classics, starting with the Ronde van Vlaanderen and ending with Paris-Roubaix. In between all the races, we'd ride ourselves silly.
Posted by: Melissa | April 05, 2017 at 12:49 PM
I'm torn between Iceland and Scotland! I have friends who just got back from Iceland and had a wonderful time. But I'm also very intrigued by the Loch Ness Knit Fest, which is a new festival in the fall.
Posted by: amy g | April 05, 2017 at 01:41 PM
Right now, I'd love a trip to Scandinavia - adding Iceland and Greenland. So Norway, Denmark Sweden - maybe heading over to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania!
Sounds like a cruise might do it!
Posted by: Sara B. | April 05, 2017 at 02:00 PM
If cost didn't matter I think I would go to Fiji and stay in one of those awesome huts on the water! That would be amazing.
Posted by: Diana | April 05, 2017 at 03:20 PM
This time of year Hawaii would be great. I would go with a friend.
Posted by: JoAnne B | April 05, 2017 at 04:42 PM
I'd love to go to Canadian Rockies for a summer vacation. I'd like a cabin with a fireplace.
Posted by: Triplesss | April 05, 2017 at 05:26 PM
I'd love to visit my son and his family in Hong Kong!
Posted by: Elise Mckee | April 05, 2017 at 06:33 PM
I would love to go somewhere on the ocean and warm. Since cost is no object, I'm thinking New Zealand or Australia. With only a week, I'll have to fly there. Otherwise I would take an around the world cruise to get there.
Posted by: Amanda | April 05, 2017 at 07:03 PM
See the northern lights in Iceland.
Posted by: Jennifer Cameron | April 05, 2017 at 07:11 PM
Though it's the wrong time of the year - I'd love to take a trip to Antarctica! On a more reasonable scale, Scandinavia.
Posted by: Sue | April 05, 2017 at 07:38 PM
I would love to go to Peru! It's where my family is from, and has an abundance of alpaca fibers!
Posted by: Nicole | April 05, 2017 at 07:54 PM
I would love to go to Rio! I don't know why, but I'm obsessed. :)
Posted by: Coby | April 05, 2017 at 09:04 PM
I think i would like to go to Paris with my hubby. But just one week? Maybe not enough time
Posted by: SarahP | April 05, 2017 at 11:23 PM
I would love to take a tour around Great Britain and see the sights!
Posted by: Emily Chandler | April 06, 2017 at 05:53 AM
I would absolutely love to spend some time in Scotland. I've been in England and Wales, but when I was teaching, my overseas travel was during spring break (because flights were lots cheaper than in the summertime), and so we never headed north to Scotland.
Posted by: Nancy | April 06, 2017 at 10:07 AM
If cost was no option, I would love to take my son to Disney World in Florida. I have nice memories of when I went there when I was growing up, but it is so expensive now even for the two of us. I would also love to visit Hawaii.
Posted by: Susan Ipavec | April 06, 2017 at 12:08 PM
New Zealand...
Posted by: Nancy F. | April 06, 2017 at 01:23 PM
Either Utila to swim with the Whale Sharks or European river criuse, especially this time of the year (it's tulip season!)
Posted by: jennifer thomas | April 06, 2017 at 02:36 PM
Anywhere with a beach and my family! What a dream it would be!
Posted by: Nancy Hooper | April 06, 2017 at 02:53 PM
Oh my, now there's a question. I have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia so while there's dozens of places I'd love to vacation right now I'd choose an island that had low/no humidity, few tourists and a hot tub!
Posted by: Lisa B | April 06, 2017 at 02:59 PM
One of those south Asian island resorts where you have a bungalow out over the water and the water is that clear green/blue that washes away all troubles at just a glance.
Posted by: Audra L | April 06, 2017 at 07:22 PM
I think the answer to this depends on what time of year you ask me. As it is April, I think my answer is somewhere warm a sunny -- a week in the coast of South Carolina sounds just st about right right now!
Posted by: Laura Ricketts | April 07, 2017 at 06:25 AM
I'm single and like to vacation by myself but not be alone? So doing tours or retreats. If money were no object, I'd do a northern lights tour in Iceland. If jetlag didn't exist, I'd do something in New Zealand.
Posted by: Alice | April 07, 2017 at 11:33 AM
My most recent trip was to Hilton Head Island, and I would love to go back there for another week. We went in the off season, so it was nice and quiet. I rode a bicycle on the beach! I so want to do that again. I'm hoping for next winter.
Posted by: Teri | April 08, 2017 at 12:16 AM
Even if cost were no impediment, for a week's trip I'd be reluctant to spend too much time just getting there and back so I'd pick something closer to home. For a spring break trip, maybe Whitehorse or Yellowknife to see the northern lights.
Posted by: ikkinlala | April 08, 2017 at 12:53 AM
Costa Rica. I want to see parrots, monkeys and sloths (oh, my!).
Posted by: Linda Bazinet | April 08, 2017 at 09:00 AM
I'd really like to go to Iceland. Hot springs? Sheep? Vikings? Yes Please.
Posted by: Lisa | April 08, 2017 at 10:03 AM