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California is nice. Tahoe and San Diego are both great locations to take kids.

Personally I'd probably stay somewhere inside Canada or the US so that plane rides would be short or I could even road trip it.

How about visiting Canada? It's technically foreign. I love eastern Canada (Newfoundland, P.E.I., Nova Scotia).

We traveled to HK when DD was 20 months. The jet lag was horrible. She had night terrors on the plane and threw tantrums during meal times (since it was sleeping time according to U.S. time). After about 4 days she snapped out of it, and we felt really bad about it, but it was hard since we were there to visit family. In general, I think HK is a great place for kids. The food is pretty kid friendly and there were many more family restrooms than in the US.

Our next international destinations on the wishlist with young kids are mainly places we have been before as a couple and want to visit again - Japan, France, maybe Bali.

Peru is great....walking around all the ruins or going to the jungle. I think Costa Rica or Puerto Rico would be good.....rainforest and all.
Mexico Beaches are nice, as are the Bahamas.

@Trailmix: @wheres_c: @irene: I was also going to suggest latin america. I know that there are direct flights from atlanta to lots of latin american cities. I havent personally been with a child but they LOVE babies and small children there. I know that Ecuador is only a 7 hour flight or so, or Buenos Aires could be fun, too!

@irene: We stayed at a hotel since my BIL's place was way too small to host us. If we went again, I would probably try and rent an apartment, since this would have given us much more freedom when it came to food. DD would wake up at 11 pm and want to eat lunch, due to jet lag. We ended up having to save leftovers from dinner (which she tantrumed through) and feed those to her, but of course there was no microwave...

Dim sum available all day long, copious food courts, 7-11's that sell hot foods, that is pretty kid friendly in my opinion!

There were suprisingly always high chair everywhere we went, and changing table. Also, many of the shopping plazas (seems like that is all there is to do in HK) have a floor devoted to kids stores, and there is always a family restroom there. We didn't venture too much off the beaten path and stayed mainly in Causeway Bay and Lantau Island (where family is).

HK Disney, Macau, those are all places you can easily go that may also be of interest!

Singapore was also a really good destination to take DD, but it is so small, you may not really consider that a true vacation. We did that as an extended layover on a trip to SE Asia and it was fun.

We were actually just talking about taking a trip to Iceland with our son who is now 19.5 months, too! Small world We probably wouldn't take this trip for at least 6 months though. Where did you end up going? If it was Iceland, I would love to know more.

Jamie

@Lozza: this is a total creeper/side note but when I was TTC and pg I followed your blog religiously and never knew this was you!

Back to the topic at hand: we aren't doing any big traveling, I'm a scaredy cat. We are hoping to take a trip to Santa Barbara next summer, my grandma has a home there so we will have a kitchen, laundry, etc.

I'd just like to say that I would be happy to be an au pair for any of you going on exotic vacations with your LOs. You don't even have to pay me - just buy my flight & hotel room.