New Jersey

Guess what blogging world...I've been to New Jersey before! My employer, Dorothy and I needed to go to a cute little town by the South Jersey shore called Margate to make sure the house her and her siblings own was ready for the new renter to move in. So on Thursday morning we left Connecticut, crossed the George Washington bridge (which was so cool! You can see Manhattan from it) got onto the New Jersey Turnpike (which was also cool cause I've heard about it) and from there took the Garden State Parkway to the quaint little town of Margate. I was telling Dorothy on the approx. 3 hour drive down there that I was expecting to see the stereotypical New Jersey with the men in wife beater tank tops and lots of greased hair and gold chains and the women with huge ratted up curly hair, and she told me that does actually exist but its more typical of North Jersey, and we were headed to South Jersey which is the nicer and more upper class area of Jersey. It was so beautiful! I expected to hate the Atlantic because I love the Pacific so, so much and how could something be as wonderful as it is...I was wrong. The Atlantic is so different than the Pacific, it's darker and more foreboding, but its beautiful in its own way. I really loved it! Ok, I think that's about enough ranting...I'm a little afraid to read this back to myself cause I just started typing and didn't really pay attention to what I was babbling on and on about...and I DID babble! sorry about that!! Lets see some pictures!!

Wow. I'm weird! Here we go:

Here I am in front of the Atlantic Ocean!

And Look!! That is Atlantic City in the background...wait, I think you can see it a little better after dark...

Look!! There's Atlantic City in the background...well, maybe you can see it better in this picture in the light...ignore the people in the picture, I didn't know them...

Look! You can see Atlantic City in the background!! ...ok, the point is I got to see Atlantic City (from a distance...but not a huge distance). It's...um...well, it's not Vegas, but kinda cool just the same.

Here I am on the deck of some guy named Louis who was trying to hit on me...he was nice enough but I wasn't interested so I didn't drink the beer he offered at least 700 times or go to the pool party he and his friends were going to have. But I DID let him use my camera to take my picture cause its hard always doing self portraits.

This is Lucy. The giant elephant shaped building in Margate. Yup, you read that right. Its a building, shaped like an elephant. It used to be a hotel. Now its a museum I think...funny, huh?!

We stopped on our way home Friday morning to pick Alex and his friend up cause they had been down there at a friends house all week. They were nice enough to help Cleo get into the proper Jersey Shore attire. She looks good, right?