España here I come!

My family and I were planning to go on an Alaskan cruise as a way to celebrate my 30th birthday. Unfortunately we won't be able to go to Canada due to my sister's DUI. FYI - if you get a DUI, you can't go into Canada for 5 years. I was really bummed about it because I have heard and read really great things about this cruise.

During dinner this weekend, we started talking about maybe taking a trip elsewhere. I really want to go to Australia but it isn't high on my mom & sister's list. Spain came up during our conversation and since tickets to Spain right now are about $450 round trip, we settled on our next vacation. Both my sister and my mom have been there but I haven't. In fact, the only other country I have been to is Mexico. I have a cousin who lives in Spain and it would be great to see her. We are thinking of maybe spending 10 days in September and really getting to know the country. I am really excited about it because of all of the European countries, Spain has always been high on my list of places to go to. I would like to go to France and Italy but Spain calls to me more than other countries.