Need help? Spring break planning ideas

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Need help? Spring break planning ideas

Spring break can mean partying in Cancun, volunteering in New Orleans, late-season skiing or even birdwatching.

Sun and fun: A group of spring breakers from Alberta, Canada, soak up the sun in Cancun, Mexico in 2006.

... and more fun: Students on spring break cheer during a wet T-shirt contest in Cancun, Mexico, in 2004. Thousands of U.S. students come to Cancun each year to enjoy spring break in the warm resort town.

Spring skiing: A contestant takes part in the World Pond-Skimming Championship, part of Vail Resort's annual Spring Back to Vail event.

Spring skiing: Skiers relax at the Squaw Valley USA resort in Olympic Valley, Calif.

See the birds: Sandhill cranes flock in a field near Kearney, Neb. The Rowe Sanctuary, a National Audubon Society facility, sponsors the Rivers and Wildlife Celebration each year.

Volunteerism: Seth Coady, a student from Cascadia Community College in Bothell, Wash., helps gut a home in the Press Park area of New Orleans during his spring break in 2007. The thousands of students willing to help with manual labor have been a source of joy, and relief for many recovery-weary residents 19 months after the hurricane.

Museums: If you want to take the high road for spring break this year, you can visit the Art Institute of Chicago and catch the Edward Hopper exhibit from Feb. 16-May 10. This 'Early Sunday Morning' (1930.)

No funds to travel? You can see this abstract by Georgia O'Keeffe, "Red, Yellow and Black Streak" (1924,) at the High Museum exhibit "Georgia O'Keeffe and the Women of the Stieglitz Circle," through May 4.

Theme parks: Quinn Kinser, 10, from Modesto, Calif., interacts with a blackfooted penguin in the Splash Zone exhibit at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California. An expanded Splash Zone, described as a children's museum inside an aquarium with live animals, interactive exhibits and games, opens March 17.

Europe: The Open Skies Agreement takes effect March 28, allowing a half-dozen carriers to add direct flights to London-Heathrow from Atlanta, JFK, Houston, Newark, Philadelphia, Dallas and Los Angeles.

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Sun and fun: A group of spring breakers from Alberta, Canada, soak up the sun in Cancun, Mexico in 2006.

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