[MagicRat]

While you have my sympathy, consider this:
Your family love and support you enough that they want you along.
When you really get inot the workforce, vacation time and vacation money becomes very hard to find. It will be next to impossible to find it.

Years down the road, when your parents are too sick (like mine) or too dead (like my wife's) to take a vacation with you anymore, you will be happy you had the opportunity to do so now.