Travel question

[blinker]

Summer vacation is turning out to be way hard to schedule this year and Kelly's parents are ditching us for Christmas, so we are thinking about a big vacation at the end of December. We may do something within the US, but we're also thinking about non-US destinations.

The one thing I want to avoid is going someplace where everything is closed because of Christmas. So far, that has me thinking of Israel or possibly somewhere in Asia. I know that I have some fairly well-traveled readers. Any recommendations for where to go or where to definitely not go at the end of December?

Comments

[call-me-al.livejournal.com]

the winter holiday season's pretty fun in russia, and christmas is 2 weeks after everyone else has it (january 7) :)
but then of course it's very very cold and i might not be here for new year's and moscow's a lot more fun when you've got someone showing you around.