Itching to Travel

A few people I know have recently gone travelling and the pictures from their trips are making me want to do some travelling of my own. Dave and I were planning on going to Montreal for a weekend which would have satistified my itch for a few more months but I now have to go out of the city for work purposes (and therefore does not fall under travelling for fun) so our plans have been delayed. It is looking like we will be able to go sometime near the end of February but we kind of have to keep playing the waiting game as my workload appears to be quite heavy then and taking a couple days off to travel may not be the greatest idea.
I do however know that there is the annual Lake Erie cottage trip in August, which will of course be super-duper fun but it seems so far away right now. We also want to travel to Nova Scotia/Maritimes this summer to visit his Aunt and our friend and generally have fun of course. But again that seems very far from now.
Weekend trips are probably my best bet right now, like Montreal, Quebec City and Vegas (yes I am including this in the category of weekend trips).
I think I really just need some photography opportunities as that seems to be one of my favourite parts of travelling - especially since the photo editing opportunites after the trip are vast.