Penny for Your Thoughts....

After doing a lot of research and thinking things through Tim and I have decided not to go anywhere far or $$ for our vacation this year.  We have so many weddings and events that we need to travel for this year that we thought we should not plan anything too big.  Instead, we've decided to stay home and still take some time off from work and just do things locally.  We're thinking we'll spend one day at Potato Creek, since neither of have ever been there.  We'll spend another day at the beach, and so on and so on.  So what thoughts do I need?  We've decided to take our vacation money and put it towards a new camera.  We thought our money would be better spent that way, especially since we haven't had one in over a year and this would probably be the year to get one.  So which camera should we get?!  We're thinking something like this but we're totally clueless and don't want to spend that much.  Thoughts? Opinions??  Advice???