This movie looks REALLY exciting!! Click on the video trailer.
December 21, 2007
December 19, 2007
In Praise of Robins!
Not only are Robins harbingers of the spring thaw, they are also very open-minded people of sound reason and good morals!:) Hi Robin! :)
December 17, 2007
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!
This year we bought a Fraser Fir. It is a great tree with strong branches for ornaments.
Buck season
I went hunting during the buck season right after we got home from Washington. I spent about 14 hours in the woods and saw 4 squirrels lol. Oh well!
How did I get up there!
How did I get up there!
Dad thinking I'm crazy for bringing the stand.
Didn't see any deer. At least it was pretty...but i admit it, I dozed off a lot!
Washington DC
On the First weekend of December Nikki and went to Washington DC to celebrate our 2nd Anniversary. We had a great time.
[DAY 1]We took Friday off and drove down. We got there around 4 or 5pm i think. We stayed in Rosellyn, Virgina (just across the Potomic) in a Holiday Inn. The room was great and cheap...just what i like HA! (ed. note: Nikki rolled her eyes big time at this point) We even had a balcony over looking the river, free parking and basically subsidized breakfast ( i think we paid around a dollar a day for the both of us. NICE!)
The night that we got there we checked in and then hopped on the Metro which was 3 blocks away. The Metro is so great! Clean and easy. Our first stop was to Zed's Ethiopian restaurant. Superb service and all sorts of political celebs have eaten there. Great place.
We then toured the Mall and monuments seeing the capitol, Washington monument, White house, WW2 memorial and Lincoln memorial.
[DAY 2] We got up and headed to Mount Vernon. We meant to only spend half a day here but because of the new museum and visitor center we spent just about the whole day. Mount Vernon the house was interesting although i felt like we were "processed" through there a bit too quickly. I liked the museum more than Nikki. But we both agreed it was a bit over the top. By the end you kind of feel like the theme of the place should be: "Washington the God" BUT, it's still worth going of course! We then headed back to the hotel and ate in our hotel restaurant (20% off dinner...WooHoo!) But the food was just ok...Nikki didn't like her dish. (ed. note: Nikki's dish was a chicken curry made with all wings, which is just weird, no veggies or anything! Bleh!)
[DAY 3]After spending so much time in Mount Vernon Nikki wanted to spend time in the Mall area so that's where we went. First off to the Spy Museum. We both thought it was interesting and started off well but it got boring and didn't stay on track. I wouldn't recommend it. Then we went to the Air and Space Museum where Nikki yawned while i checked out the planes. The highlight there for Nikki was a that we swear we saw Hamid Karzai (ed note: Hamid Karzai is the President of Afghanistan and an all around spiffy dresser)! I don't think it was him...but he looked Arab and had tons of security...they kept shooing us away. Nikki kept asking the Secret Service who it was lol. But they kept acting like it was a secret or something. They refused to answer but were nice about it. After that we split.
On the way home Nikki had the wonderful idea to lengthen and enrich our trip by having dinner in Baltimore so we drove all over the city trying to find a place that agreed with her...but she couldn't find pme so we ended up stopping in a Popeye's Joint in what Nikki deemed an unsavory neighborhood. It looked ok to me though.
We basically walked in the door and passed out on the bed. Whew!
Here are a bunch of pics from the weekend!
[DAY 1]We took Friday off and drove down. We got there around 4 or 5pm i think. We stayed in Rosellyn, Virgina (just across the Potomic) in a Holiday Inn. The room was great and cheap...just what i like HA! (ed. note: Nikki rolled her eyes big time at this point) We even had a balcony over looking the river, free parking and basically subsidized breakfast ( i think we paid around a dollar a day for the both of us. NICE!)
The night that we got there we checked in and then hopped on the Metro which was 3 blocks away. The Metro is so great! Clean and easy. Our first stop was to Zed's Ethiopian restaurant. Superb service and all sorts of political celebs have eaten there. Great place.
We then toured the Mall and monuments seeing the capitol, Washington monument, White house, WW2 memorial and Lincoln memorial.
[DAY 2] We got up and headed to Mount Vernon. We meant to only spend half a day here but because of the new museum and visitor center we spent just about the whole day. Mount Vernon the house was interesting although i felt like we were "processed" through there a bit too quickly. I liked the museum more than Nikki. But we both agreed it was a bit over the top. By the end you kind of feel like the theme of the place should be: "Washington the God" BUT, it's still worth going of course! We then headed back to the hotel and ate in our hotel restaurant (20% off dinner...WooHoo!) But the food was just ok...Nikki didn't like her dish. (ed. note: Nikki's dish was a chicken curry made with all wings, which is just weird, no veggies or anything! Bleh!)
[DAY 3]After spending so much time in Mount Vernon Nikki wanted to spend time in the Mall area so that's where we went. First off to the Spy Museum. We both thought it was interesting and started off well but it got boring and didn't stay on track. I wouldn't recommend it. Then we went to the Air and Space Museum where Nikki yawned while i checked out the planes. The highlight there for Nikki was a that we swear we saw Hamid Karzai (ed note: Hamid Karzai is the President of Afghanistan and an all around spiffy dresser)! I don't think it was him...but he looked Arab and had tons of security...they kept shooing us away. Nikki kept asking the Secret Service who it was lol. But they kept acting like it was a secret or something. They refused to answer but were nice about it. After that we split.
On the way home Nikki had the wonderful idea to lengthen and enrich our trip by having dinner in Baltimore so we drove all over the city trying to find a place that agreed with her...but she couldn't find pme so we ended up stopping in a Popeye's Joint in what Nikki deemed an unsavory neighborhood. It looked ok to me though.
We basically walked in the door and passed out on the bed. Whew!
Here are a bunch of pics from the weekend!
Some sort of memorial on the Mall.
WW2 Memorial. VERY nice at night.
More WW2 Memorial.
View from our balcony.
At White House fence.
Mount Vernon.
Washington knew how to pick'em! What a view. And check out those two trees...they're on fire i think!
AWWWW Happy Anniversary to us hehe!
November 15, 2007
November 2, 2007
My Crazy Sleepy Self
Some of you have probably heard of some of the wierd and funny things I have done sleeping.
Well I did it again! Here is the play-by-play according to Nikki.
Oh and don't ask me WHY i was dreaming of icicles! HAHA
Well I did it again! Here is the play-by-play according to Nikki.
Oh and don't ask me WHY i was dreaming of icicles! HAHA
This takes place at 4 AM one morning. Nikki is sleeping soundly and Ron is sleeping too, although less soundly....
RON: Sweetie, sweetie ::nudge nudge:: I’m going to turn the light on okay?
NIKKI: Huh? Why do you have to turn the light on?
RON: There are icicles on the ceiling and I just want to knock them down…
NIKKI: …..Silence…..
RON: Okay, so I’m going to turn the lights on?
NIKKI: Ron there aren’t any icicles on the ceiling, you’re dreaming. How could there be iciles on the ceiling?
RON: No, they are there. They are made of minerals.
NIKKI: :Shaking you: Ron, WAKE UP YOU”RE SLEEPING.
RON: No…there are minerals and…oh I think I just said that to make it sound so real…… hehe….zzzzzzz zzzzzz zzzzz
NIKKI: oh boy ha ha!
October 31, 2007
Jack-O-Lanterns Part Deux
Taking no chances this time Nikki and I bought and carved a couple pumpkins the day before Halloween. TRICK or TREAT!
Notice the "theme" too...my pumkin has scared the other...hehe
Notice the "theme" too...my pumkin has scared the other...hehe
Gettysburg - Part Une
We're not in Kansas any more.
It’s amazing to me, how a drive of 3.5 hours can take you to an entirely different world. But that, dear readers is the truth of what happened to my mom, my Ron, and myself as we went to Gettysburg, PA last weekend or the weekend before or something....
We left on a Friday afternoon for the drive and we took our handy-dandy GPS along because she knew the way. My mom drove (THE ENTIRE WEEKEND despite offers of reprieve). The ride up was fairly smooth with route 78 being the exception (as usual). It took us about 3.5 hours to get to our hotel in Gettysburg, PA.
First a few reflections on the town:
I was very surprised that for all its fame, Gettysburg is truly a sleepy little town. It's got a population of about 7,000 people, which is not a far cry from its 1863 pop of just over 2,000. That is not a lot of growth in 150 years! The economy of the place appears to be strictly based on tourism and the enterprising townsfolk (yes they're townsfolk) have fully capitalized on that bloody battle so many years ago. We've got Pickett's Buffet, American History Bookshop, and about 6 million Civil War Memorabilia Shops. (we saw about 1/3rd of them hehe)
So when we arrived we quickly checked into our hotel which was really nice. The beds were as comfy as what we have at home! We quickly made a mess of the room and then headed off to our first event. A HAUNTED TRAIL RIDE WOOOOOOOOOOO!
This was a silly, silly ride, but the sad part is that it had all the potential in the world of being a great night of fun. First it was on an old train (I think it was 80-something years old) then it had the fortune to be a very dark, cold and stormy night! What luck! Lastly it was riding right THROUGH the creepy, foggy, blood-soaked (not literally) battlefield of Gettysburg!!!
How could this not be wonderful?!
I'll tell you how...first it didn't have all of those people in scary costumes walking up and down the aisle. From the safety of my computer I can announce with confidence that those things are ridiculous....but when I'm on the train I'm positively petrified. No this haunted train didn’t' take that route, instead they had a ghost "Expert" on board to tell ghost stories about Gettysburg. Now, I'm someone who loves oral history and I love love LOVE a good storyteller, so this had all the makings of a fabulous evening. Buuuuuttttttt this woman, our ghost "expert" was awful. She had this weird sing-song voice and she spoke for the entire two hours. One after another they came, 100 year old accounts from someone's senile aunt who remembered seeing the head of coal miner floating outside her window and so on. Eventually she ran out of supernatural and just started telling horror stories about train crashes, re-enacting whenever possible the screams of the victims and relaying in bloody detail the extent of their injuries.
I was really not alone in my dislike for the "entertainment" the people in the car around us started heckling a bit. (Don’t worry she was not near enough to hear them). Frankly, we were grateful for some comic relief because the ride was getting lloooong. haha!
Moving on we went back and had dinner at Perkins restaurant which is not very interesting but was in our direct line of vision.
After that we went back to our room and fell asleep. Big day on Saturday… we're heading out to the battlefield.
It’s amazing to me, how a drive of 3.5 hours can take you to an entirely different world. But that, dear readers is the truth of what happened to my mom, my Ron, and myself as we went to Gettysburg, PA last weekend or the weekend before or something....
We left on a Friday afternoon for the drive and we took our handy-dandy GPS along because she knew the way. My mom drove (THE ENTIRE WEEKEND despite offers of reprieve). The ride up was fairly smooth with route 78 being the exception (as usual). It took us about 3.5 hours to get to our hotel in Gettysburg, PA.
First a few reflections on the town:
I was very surprised that for all its fame, Gettysburg is truly a sleepy little town. It's got a population of about 7,000 people, which is not a far cry from its 1863 pop of just over 2,000. That is not a lot of growth in 150 years! The economy of the place appears to be strictly based on tourism and the enterprising townsfolk (yes they're townsfolk) have fully capitalized on that bloody battle so many years ago. We've got Pickett's Buffet, American History Bookshop, and about 6 million Civil War Memorabilia Shops. (we saw about 1/3rd of them hehe)
So when we arrived we quickly checked into our hotel which was really nice. The beds were as comfy as what we have at home! We quickly made a mess of the room and then headed off to our first event. A HAUNTED TRAIL RIDE WOOOOOOOOOOO!
This was a silly, silly ride, but the sad part is that it had all the potential in the world of being a great night of fun. First it was on an old train (I think it was 80-something years old) then it had the fortune to be a very dark, cold and stormy night! What luck! Lastly it was riding right THROUGH the creepy, foggy, blood-soaked (not literally) battlefield of Gettysburg!!!
How could this not be wonderful?!
I'll tell you how...first it didn't have all of those people in scary costumes walking up and down the aisle. From the safety of my computer I can announce with confidence that those things are ridiculous....but when I'm on the train I'm positively petrified. No this haunted train didn’t' take that route, instead they had a ghost "Expert" on board to tell ghost stories about Gettysburg. Now, I'm someone who loves oral history and I love love LOVE a good storyteller, so this had all the makings of a fabulous evening. Buuuuuttttttt this woman, our ghost "expert" was awful. She had this weird sing-song voice and she spoke for the entire two hours. One after another they came, 100 year old accounts from someone's senile aunt who remembered seeing the head of coal miner floating outside her window and so on. Eventually she ran out of supernatural and just started telling horror stories about train crashes, re-enacting whenever possible the screams of the victims and relaying in bloody detail the extent of their injuries.
I was really not alone in my dislike for the "entertainment" the people in the car around us started heckling a bit. (Don’t worry she was not near enough to hear them). Frankly, we were grateful for some comic relief because the ride was getting lloooong. haha!
Moving on we went back and had dinner at Perkins restaurant which is not very interesting but was in our direct line of vision.
After that we went back to our room and fell asleep. Big day on Saturday… we're heading out to the battlefield.
October 22, 2007
An Exhibition of Nikki
We're back from our trip to Gettysburg, PA. We all had a great time. Pictures to follow but first.....
I am going through the process of moving all of the digital pictures that Ron and I take, off of the computer and onto CD. It's also my intention to move the pictures onto Kodak Gallary as well. It's happening.... but slowly. Anyway I found some pictures of my latest batch of pumpkin spice candles (they smell great).
I am going through the process of moving all of the digital pictures that Ron and I take, off of the computer and onto CD. It's also my intention to move the pictures onto Kodak Gallary as well. It's happening.... but slowly. Anyway I found some pictures of my latest batch of pumpkin spice candles (they smell great).
October 17, 2007
Pumpkins Don't Like Us
Last night we came home to this! It was like a crime scene. The pumpkin "blood" leaked onto our chair too. We have since cleaned the seat and it's fine. Looks like Nikki won the battle over who can find the best method to preserve their pumpkin.
However, I think the death of this pumkin was suspicious...was it natural or homicide!
However, I think the death of this pumkin was suspicious...was it natural or homicide!
October 14, 2007
Opening Day of duck Season
I think some people who don't normally see this side of me would find these pics rather funny.
On October 13th my dad and I went to Paulenskill WMA (Wildlife Management Area) in Lafayette NJ.
I got up at 3:20 AM to meet my dad at my parent's house in Plainfield. We left there at about 4:20. We got to the parking lot at about 5:45. We then got on our chest waders, jackets, packs full of decoys and shotguns and then hopped on our bikes. That's right! Bikes!
HAHA it must be pretty funny to see someone in boots up to their chest , plastic duck heads in their backpack and a shotgun across their back taking a bike ride!
Well we rode about 10 minutes down the dirt road to where we have to turn into the marsh/lake. We dragged the bikes in and locked them up. We then walked another 5-10 minutes to our spot. Once there we got our things together and put out the decoys and were ready by 6:25. Legal shooting time was 7:38 (half hour before sunrise) so we got to relax a little bit.
It was a very nice day. I got a Green Wing Teal and my dad got a Green Wing Teal and a Wood Duck. Boy the area is so pretty!
I see some of the prettiest places in New Jersey fishing and hunting.
On October 13th my dad and I went to Paulenskill WMA (Wildlife Management Area) in Lafayette NJ.
I got up at 3:20 AM to meet my dad at my parent's house in Plainfield. We left there at about 4:20. We got to the parking lot at about 5:45. We then got on our chest waders, jackets, packs full of decoys and shotguns and then hopped on our bikes. That's right! Bikes!
HAHA it must be pretty funny to see someone in boots up to their chest , plastic duck heads in their backpack and a shotgun across their back taking a bike ride!
Well we rode about 10 minutes down the dirt road to where we have to turn into the marsh/lake. We dragged the bikes in and locked them up. We then walked another 5-10 minutes to our spot. Once there we got our things together and put out the decoys and were ready by 6:25. Legal shooting time was 7:38 (half hour before sunrise) so we got to relax a little bit.
It was a very nice day. I got a Green Wing Teal and my dad got a Green Wing Teal and a Wood Duck. Boy the area is so pretty!
I see some of the prettiest places in New Jersey fishing and hunting.
When we have enough duck Nikki and I will probably go over my parents and have a duck dinner. My dad has a new recipe he wants to try.
My dad in full camo scanning the sky. Ducks can see color so hence the "bandit" look.
See the fog? Earlier it was so thick I couldn't past that decoy in the background. Oh and those aren't ducks back there, they are decoys.
See the decoys? What a beautiful day!
Jack-O-Lanters!
On October 10th Nikki and I did our annual pumpkin carving. It's always fun to do! Hopefully they won't mold and rot too much before Halloween.
We're trying two different ways to preserve them. I'm spraying it with Pam inside to prevent moisture loss and also spray it with Lysol to kill mold. Nikki is using just lemon juice.
Looks like Nikki is winning so far, as of writting this my pumpkin has made more mold than hers.
Nikki's is the cat and mine is the monster face.
October 10, 2007
2007 Governor's Surf Fishing Tournament
****UPDATE 1****
Here are the results of the Tournament:
33 bluefish, 3 blackfish, 7 kingfish and 2 stripers out of 1000+ anglers.
****UPDATE 2****
Alright, it's official. Nikki would have won. 7 Kingfish were caught. Men accounted for 5 of them. So Nikki would have at least received third place! DOH!
On Sunday October 7th Nikki, Dad and I went to the annual Governor's Surf Fishing Tournament. We had a great time but holy smokes i think it was August not October!
This year was especially good because of Mom and Dad's new condo in Ortley Beach. It's about 15 minutes from the park. That is great because the Tournament starts at 6am and in past years we would get up at 3:30am. ugh!
This year we met my parents at the condo the night before, had a nice evening, got bait, and got to sleep until about 6am. Still early but certainly not too bad. We got on the beach around 7:30am and got our poles in the water as fast as possible.
The beach is so pretty in the morning.
About 45 minutes into things Nikki said she noticed a bite on my pole but when i looked it wasn't doing anything. I assumed she had just seen the wave action effecting the pole but I decided to check my bait anyway. Nothing seemed unusual as I reeled but when the bait emerged out of the water there was a tiny fish on my rig! Nikki was right! Turned out it was a Kingfish! This was incredibly weird because: 1. it had bitten on a mullet (little bait fish) but typically they feed on worms and little critters. 2. the mullet bait it bit on was half it's size! and 3. the hook was as big as it's head and bigger than it's mouth! I don't know what it was thinking but i guess it really wanted to get caught!
Anyway, this was great because the way the tournament works is there is a first, second and third place for each specie of fish eligible. There would not be many Kingfish caught at all because the time for them being around has pretty much passed. However, I REALLY wanted Nikki to catch something like this because the primary competition is among adult men. There are not only 1st 2nd and 3rd among species but according to child female\male, teen male\female and adult men and women. If Nikki would have caught this thing her chances of winning would have been huge. It was quite good for me but for her it would have been almost a foregone conclusion! I have yet to hear what the women's Kingfish catch was though.
The winner LOL!
Well the day progressed and all we caught were some skates and sea robins that are ineligible for prizes. I guess you could say Nikki won among us though because she caught the biggest fish. A skate that was 4-5 pounds. They look so nasty.
Nikki's winner, nasty right!
Well the Tournament ended at 1pm and all we had in the running was my 10 inch Kingfish but funny as it seemed, I could easily place with it so we went to the ceremony.
Well... I lost by 1 inch! DOH!
My dad kept a couple large sea robins and with my kingfish we almost had a dinner. So we picked up two flounder fillets from the store and made a nice fish fry. Oh well, we didn't get a fishing pole and reel but we had a great dinner! :) There's always next year to get my 4th win hehe.
Nikki eagle eyeing the poles with a judge in the background.
awwww
Look what I caught!! hehe nope it's bait!
Nikki showing my dad and I how it's done.
Plants Don't Like Us
Alright. I don't know what the problem is but Nikki and I are convinced that plants just don't like us or something!. We first bought a plant from Walmart. It looked great but within a few days started losing it's leaves. We didn't do anything drastic, just placed it so it would get some sun but certainly not too much. I watered it once because the soil was dry. Why did it die!
But the kicker was the next poor plant to find itself in our grasp. After seeing that the Walmart plant was pretty much gone we picked up a really nice plant at Ikea. Everything looked good for a few days. A few leaves fell off but nothing seem abnormal. So off we go to Princeton to have dinner with a friend. Little did we know what awaited us at home!
When we walked into the house i saw our plant and it was like a crime scene. It was so shocking we briefly wondered if some mischievous kid walked in and did it! Every single leaf had fallen off the plant!! It was like it got frightened to death or something!
What is up with these plants!! The picture is of the crime scene we walk in on.
October 1, 2007
September 30, 2007
Obama Rally in Washington Square Park
On Thursday September 27th Nikki and I went to an Obama rally in Washington Square Park. It was a pretty exciting experience.
Well we finally managed to get through the checkpoint and probably got about 25 yards from the stage. When we first got in crowding was moderate but not as bad as the security line but shortly after we got in they closed the checkpoint and the rest of the crowd surged in. I think they did this because people started leave as they chanted "LET US IN!"
Obama arrived maybe 10 minutes after we got through security. What a great speaker! He really had the crowd going. One minute they would be yelling and screaming and then the next completely quiet hanging on every word. There were news helicopters hovering above and tons of press. We both find it exciting to be at events like this! In fact i found myself in a published NYTimes photo. Not that anyone but myself would notice that but i still think it's cool! I circled myself. 
First off we both took a half day from work. That's always fun! We then hopped onto the train from Edison and finally ended up at Washington Square Park around 3pm. However, they weren't letting people in yet so we had to find something to do. We found a small cute cafe to stop at. While there we got a couple sodas and a fruit plate. The fruit plate was so so but it certainly wasn't worth 8 bucks!
We stayed there until about 4:30 and decided to head to the park again. By that point there were only a few.....ZILLION people trying to get in. We bought a couple buttons and crammed into line. There were 4 massive lines that surged towards 4 metal detectors. 4 metal detectors and 12 security guides working them scanning 24,000 people...this was going to take awhile. and i SURE did! yeeeesh. Here is what it was like for most of the rally. Imagine being in a tiny closet with a heater pumping out hot humid air that smelled like perfume and BO. That's about what it was like, Nikki and I would both say "AHhhhh" every time we felt a breeze and take a deep breath.
Well we finally managed to get through the checkpoint and probably got about 25 yards from the stage. When we first got in crowding was moderate but not as bad as the security line but shortly after we got in they closed the checkpoint and the rest of the crowd surged in. I think they did this because people started leave as they chanted "LET US IN!"Obama arrived maybe 10 minutes after we got through security. What a great speaker! He really had the crowd going. One minute they would be yelling and screaming and then the next completely quiet hanging on every word. There were news helicopters hovering above and tons of press. We both find it exciting to be at events like this! In fact i found myself in a published NYTimes photo. Not that anyone but myself would notice that but i still think it's cool! I circled myself. Well he finished his speech in about an hour and then it was time to shake hands and all that so while tons of people were leaving we did our best to get as close to the rope line. We managed to get about 3 feet from the rope. Obama moved through our section and Nikki actually got a handshake from him! She was so excited!
After we were done taking in the site we headed to Penn station and then home. It was a long but memorable day!
After the rally we took a brief tour of Greenwich Village and found a cute Indian place to have dinner. It was pretty good and was reasonably priced. Although the Chicken tiki masala sauce tasted like it was made with Campbell's tomato soup rather than tomatoes.
After dinner we took the subway to the WTC site. We had never been there since the attack. It was very strange being there knowing all the drama that happened there.
After we were done taking in the site we headed to Penn station and then home. It was a long but memorable day!September 28, 2007
September 26, 2007
Our GPS
Poor Nikki has been adding so much to the blog!! I should add something, and for once it won't entail a battle map lol.
One big thing that i don't think we even mentioned regarding our camping/road trip was that we rented a GPS system with our rental car. That little thing amazed us and we used it for absolutely everything. We hardly picked up a map and it made navigating a breeze, allowing us to concentrate on the sites.
After getting back we were determined to get our own GPS. SOOOoooo after a bit of researching on my part, focusing primarily on price and simply navigating i bought the Magellan 3100. It is supposed to be the cheapest GPS just about but still offer the good quality of the more expensive models. Well that was wrong! First off most if not all GPS's have POI's (points of interest.) These are destinations all over the county that you can search on the machine. The point being, if you are in an area where you don't know where to eat, get fast food, go food shopping, find any type of store, park or government building POI's become VERY handy and we used them a lot on our trip. The Magellan ended up having 750,000. this seems like a lot but divide that number by 50 and that is the average for your entire state. That number is actually surprisingly low. Middle and upper end GPS's typically have millions of POI's. So the POI database was basically useless. Also the navigating and satellite communication functions were glitch-y.
Then, deciding to return it we realized we would get a restocking fee of 15%! DOH! So i decided to try selling it on ebay. Well, we sold it on Ebay but we still ended up losing money :(
This is now the part that Nikki will like. From the very beginning Nikki said we should get the same machine we had on our trip. In the beginning i quickly rejected that thinking it would be too expensive. BUT i was wrong. Upon researching Garmin i realized they had basically the same unit we had on the vacation but not the same amount of bells and whistles we would never use. So we got the Garmin c530 for what i think was a great price.(only $50 more than the Magellan) (the unit we had on vacation was the Garmin c550)
The unit is PERFECT. It has a database of over 5 million and navigates very well. So far there have been no problems and we both love it, especially Nikki.
We will be going to Gettysburg in the middle of October so we intend on making good use of it on that trip.
Oooooo Gettysburg...i think i sense another battle map!! haHA...until then!!... :)
My Hair
I'm through with braids (for the moment anyhow) and I've moved on to a weave. For those who don't know a weave is when fake hair is sewn with a needle and thread over my real hair, giving me a completely new look and obscuring my hair entirely.
Hurray for weaves!
Here are some pictures of the new 'do!
Hurray for weaves!
Here are some pictures of the new 'do!
Food Stuffs
Well, I am still meat free; I can’t believe I’ve made it so far. It’s amazing; my stomach feels so much better. I had been feeling so bloated and gross and now everything is peach-y. Boo for meat and hurray for veggies, I also have a lot more energy. We’ll see though because I might have a piece of sausage tonight, which is one of my weaknesses, it would be just a small amount because I’m making a pizza for dinner and Ron prefers to have pizza with meat or no pizza at all.
New Colors and Layout and a Purchase!
I had some free time today and I was looking at the various different blogs out there and to my shock and horror it turns out that our dot design is extremely popular. SOO I decided to pick a new template that hopefully is a bit more unique. Though frankly, the options are rather limited.
Huzzah! Thanks to Ron's quick e-mailing capabilities he has won his companies monthly contest 3 months in a row! So he suggested that we purchase a pressure canner that I have wanted for EVER! I'm so thrilled to buy it and even happier that's its free! So now the soups can be made in bulk and sevred year round. Hurray!
Huzzah! Thanks to Ron's quick e-mailing capabilities he has won his companies monthly contest 3 months in a row! So he suggested that we purchase a pressure canner that I have wanted for EVER! I'm so thrilled to buy it and even happier that's its free! So now the soups can be made in bulk and sevred year round. Hurray!
September 23, 2007
Dunnellen Street Fair
I was working today at the Street Fair trying to get some people to join the data base at work. I think i said "Get paid for your opinion" about 60 million times today. But I got a couple of good deals.
A) Set of queen sized sheets for $20 bucks! Deep Pockets too, 400 thread count. Score!
B) Newspaper subscription for 15 dollars for the year! (Sunday and Thursdays only). Now that's a good deal!
P.S. Ever wonder what a British, Vegetarian eats everyday for a year?
I did too. But not anymore! http://www.eat22.com/
I find it interested because I am giving up meat. NOT entirely just mostly, and its for a variety of reasons. Here they are, in no particular order....
1) I think meat is more difficult to digest
2) I am upset by the conditions of slaughter houses in America (therefore I will be eating food my husband shoots, and pulls from oceans and streams without hesitation)
3) I am trying to lose some weight and I think that eating less meat and dairy will help that.
4) My intolerance to lactose seems to be increasing unfortunately.
5) The meat is typically (but not always) my least favorite part of any meal.
Anyhoo, I'm still eating meats and dairy in some respects because my husband is the worlds biggest carnivore and it would be too much work to make two meals sometimes, but he will likely be eating less meat too unless he decides to take up cooking (doubtful). When possible I will make myself a protein meat substitute, like when we BB-q steaks, I have been having a bean burger with the same flavorful sides that Ron has. And when we make chicken breast open face sandwiches I have imitation chicken patties. (which are REALLY good by the way)
But bear in mind that today for lunch I had a delicious sausage, pepper and onion sandwich and for dinner I had pork chops. So I will take the yummy or easy way out at some times. I'm not going to beat myself up about it though. Anything is better than nothing.
:)
A) Set of queen sized sheets for $20 bucks! Deep Pockets too, 400 thread count. Score!
B) Newspaper subscription for 15 dollars for the year! (Sunday and Thursdays only). Now that's a good deal!
P.S. Ever wonder what a British, Vegetarian eats everyday for a year?
I did too. But not anymore! http://www.eat22.com/
I find it interested because I am giving up meat. NOT entirely just mostly, and its for a variety of reasons. Here they are, in no particular order....
1) I think meat is more difficult to digest
2) I am upset by the conditions of slaughter houses in America (therefore I will be eating food my husband shoots, and pulls from oceans and streams without hesitation)
3) I am trying to lose some weight and I think that eating less meat and dairy will help that.
4) My intolerance to lactose seems to be increasing unfortunately.
5) The meat is typically (but not always) my least favorite part of any meal.
Anyhoo, I'm still eating meats and dairy in some respects because my husband is the worlds biggest carnivore and it would be too much work to make two meals sometimes, but he will likely be eating less meat too unless he decides to take up cooking (doubtful). When possible I will make myself a protein meat substitute, like when we BB-q steaks, I have been having a bean burger with the same flavorful sides that Ron has. And when we make chicken breast open face sandwiches I have imitation chicken patties. (which are REALLY good by the way)
But bear in mind that today for lunch I had a delicious sausage, pepper and onion sandwich and for dinner I had pork chops. So I will take the yummy or easy way out at some times. I'm not going to beat myself up about it though. Anything is better than nothing.
:)
Okay more on the road trip & stuff we did
Whew its really hard to get on the computer to do this!!!
Jersey Shore Pictures Woooo!
We spent most of our weekends in September at the beach, either staying at Ron's parents beach house (which is so very kind of them). Or just taking a drive there. I have always been okay with the beach but in love with the boardwalk, the smells, the sounds, and the sights. Althoughy lately some have the sights have been a little bit raunchy for my tastes. (Come on people put some clothes on!)
Here are some pictures from the boardwalk and the beach. They have this new "ski-lift" thing. It broke down at LEAST once a day but Ron and I still rode it. Fun fun fun and peaceful.
We went to Allaire Village which was fun and a simple day of quiet New Jersey history.
Allaire Village was founded by the very industrious James P. Allaire. He founded the small town around iron bogs in Farmingdale, NJ. For a time, Allaire was home to all of the workers who worked in the bogs. It was really fascinating as a commune too in which there was universal education and health care (such as it was) there was also 100% employment with children (age 3 and up) working. The young children of course didn't do anything to dangerous...they just worked in the NAIL FACTORY!!!!
Allaire Village
So lets see where did I leave off with our trip? Happily, I have just finished working on the photo album for it. So I'll have that to go through.
After we went to Massachusetts we drove up and over to southern Vermont. Which is simply lovely. Everything about Vermont is majestic and beautiful. The people are kind and we appreciated the different pace of life. It did take some getting used to of course, how strange that people wanted to talk to us pretty much anywhere we went.
We did some "down home" type of things here. We went to the small but chock-full Norman Rockwell Museum, which is staffed by people who modeled for the artist. For several years Rockwell lived in Arlington Vermont. He moved there after deciding that New Yorkers were becoming a little too wealthy for their own good! He enjoyed the life and found what he considered to be the Americana worth capturing. His portraits of Arlington natives are some of his most compelling and famous works. (such as The Four Wants).
Our food situation was a bit limited in this respect but we went to a sweet little place where I had homemade chili and the prices were fantastic! (good for cheap Ron and Nikki)
We did cheese shopping and saw Harry Potter, and drove around looking for covered bridges. We also went to something that has really disappeared in New Jersey. A book store where the employees both love and know books. It is so annoying to go into Borders or Barnes and Nobel (my only options) and ask idiot clerks where my literary selection is located. Not only do they not know, they don't care and they would rather I help my self at the kiosk. Not at this place, here they not only had heard of Nathanial Hawthorne (not exactly an unknown, I know) but they had READ all of his works. They could recommend a selection that would be best for me. Amazing!
We also had an okay dinner at a Colonial Restaurant. The building was really cool, but truthfully it the food was just average. I had Tom Turkey (big in Vermont) with stuffing and vegetables. The weirdest thing, I had like 1.5 lbs of turkey and only 3 carrots....their method serving the vegetables was to first bring your your entree and then the waitress brought out something the size of a small dessert plate with a few baby corn spears and carrots on it, then she asked Ron and I if we would like some and then she divided it between the two of us, and took the rest (yes there were leftover veggies on the plate). I thought that was so weird why not just give us everything. Plus its Vermont in the middle of summer is there nothing green to be had? It was pretty pricey too so we expected more.
We stayed in a cute little cottage in Vermont. It overlooked a mountain and we had our own bathroom and bed and air conditioning. It was heaven and perfect timing since it rained everyday we were in Vermont.
Next we drove to the border of VT and NY. We crossed Lake Champlain in our car on a barge. Peaceful, slow, and very very wet since it was pouring at this point. We spent the day in Fort Ticonderoga, which has a gruesome history that really fascinated Ron. Our macabre is so different. I find death by disease really interesting (as in black plague, influenza) an he favors learning about death by man. Either way its a little dark. (I found the small pox outbreaks really terrifying.)
Unfortunately due to the terrible weather several of the walking tours were cancelled and we couldn't or I should say didn't want to go and see the gardens.
Moving on we drove down to Lake George, NY but we decided to rent a hotel room for an extra night mainly because of the weather and because we like air conditioning. Since I didn't know we would be looking for a room I didn't have time to price hunt and it was the more expensive then our two nights in Vermont! Still, watching TV in a/c was totally worth it as it was pouring outside. It certainly beat tent camping :).
The next night we went to our reserved campground which was truly disgusting. I didn't even bother to go into the bathroom because it was so gross in the campgrounds. Ron did however, and he told me I made the right decision. So, stinky and gross ugh...moving on.... we started to do some activities. We were lucky enough to see some free Shakespeare in the Park. "the Comedy of Errors". It was pretty good actually.
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Next day we drove up to the top of a mountain to take in the view.
Went to Fort William Henry (French Indian War Era Fort that had Civil War souvenirs for some reason?)
Went on a GREAT dinner cruise on Lake George. It was nearly empty while the Minne-ha-ha(another cruise boat on Lake George) was sold out. Dinner was good but the view was better. Lots of lovely little islands, huge homes, and great views of the mountains.
Then we went home but not before we stopped at Saratoga National Historic Site, but I was hungry and don't remember what we did. :)
Hurray for the Road Trip!! One day I will try and add some more detail where I skimped :)
Jersey Shore Pictures Woooo!
We spent most of our weekends in September at the beach, either staying at Ron's parents beach house (which is so very kind of them). Or just taking a drive there. I have always been okay with the beach but in love with the boardwalk, the smells, the sounds, and the sights. Althoughy lately some have the sights have been a little bit raunchy for my tastes. (Come on people put some clothes on!)
Here are some pictures from the boardwalk and the beach. They have this new "ski-lift" thing. It broke down at LEAST once a day but Ron and I still rode it. Fun fun fun and peaceful.
We went to Allaire Village which was fun and a simple day of quiet New Jersey history.
Allaire Village was founded by the very industrious James P. Allaire. He founded the small town around iron bogs in Farmingdale, NJ. For a time, Allaire was home to all of the workers who worked in the bogs. It was really fascinating as a commune too in which there was universal education and health care (such as it was) there was also 100% employment with children (age 3 and up) working. The young children of course didn't do anything to dangerous...they just worked in the NAIL FACTORY!!!!
Allaire Village
Here is a video I took with my camera. This is called a Wulitzer, a military band organ.
The highlight up the trip for both Ron and myself was a tour of Allaire's former home. Really what made it interesting was this lovely woman who gave the tour who was really interested in the subject and incredibly knowledgeable and friendly. Truly some of the best tours we have ever had have been nearly empty with just us and the tour guide. I think at some time we would have been shy about such an intimate tour but experience has taught us otherwise.
So lets see where did I leave off with our trip? Happily, I have just finished working on the photo album for it. So I'll have that to go through.
After we went to Massachusetts we drove up and over to southern Vermont. Which is simply lovely. Everything about Vermont is majestic and beautiful. The people are kind and we appreciated the different pace of life. It did take some getting used to of course, how strange that people wanted to talk to us pretty much anywhere we went.
We did some "down home" type of things here. We went to the small but chock-full Norman Rockwell Museum, which is staffed by people who modeled for the artist. For several years Rockwell lived in Arlington Vermont. He moved there after deciding that New Yorkers were becoming a little too wealthy for their own good! He enjoyed the life and found what he considered to be the Americana worth capturing. His portraits of Arlington natives are some of his most compelling and famous works. (such as The Four Wants).
Our food situation was a bit limited in this respect but we went to a sweet little place where I had homemade chili and the prices were fantastic! (good for cheap Ron and Nikki)
We did cheese shopping and saw Harry Potter, and drove around looking for covered bridges. We also went to something that has really disappeared in New Jersey. A book store where the employees both love and know books. It is so annoying to go into Borders or Barnes and Nobel (my only options) and ask idiot clerks where my literary selection is located. Not only do they not know, they don't care and they would rather I help my self at the kiosk. Not at this place, here they not only had heard of Nathanial Hawthorne (not exactly an unknown, I know) but they had READ all of his works. They could recommend a selection that would be best for me. Amazing!
We also had an okay dinner at a Colonial Restaurant. The building was really cool, but truthfully it the food was just average. I had Tom Turkey (big in Vermont) with stuffing and vegetables. The weirdest thing, I had like 1.5 lbs of turkey and only 3 carrots....their method serving the vegetables was to first bring your your entree and then the waitress brought out something the size of a small dessert plate with a few baby corn spears and carrots on it, then she asked Ron and I if we would like some and then she divided it between the two of us, and took the rest (yes there were leftover veggies on the plate). I thought that was so weird why not just give us everything. Plus its Vermont in the middle of summer is there nothing green to be had? It was pretty pricey too so we expected more.
We stayed in a cute little cottage in Vermont. It overlooked a mountain and we had our own bathroom and bed and air conditioning. It was heaven and perfect timing since it rained everyday we were in Vermont.
Next we drove to the border of VT and NY. We crossed Lake Champlain in our car on a barge. Peaceful, slow, and very very wet since it was pouring at this point. We spent the day in Fort Ticonderoga, which has a gruesome history that really fascinated Ron. Our macabre is so different. I find death by disease really interesting (as in black plague, influenza) an he favors learning about death by man. Either way its a little dark. (I found the small pox outbreaks really terrifying.)
Unfortunately due to the terrible weather several of the walking tours were cancelled and we couldn't or I should say didn't want to go and see the gardens.
Moving on we drove down to Lake George, NY but we decided to rent a hotel room for an extra night mainly because of the weather and because we like air conditioning. Since I didn't know we would be looking for a room I didn't have time to price hunt and it was the more expensive then our two nights in Vermont! Still, watching TV in a/c was totally worth it as it was pouring outside. It certainly beat tent camping :).
The next night we went to our reserved campground which was truly disgusting. I didn't even bother to go into the bathroom because it was so gross in the campgrounds. Ron did however, and he told me I made the right decision. So, stinky and gross ugh...moving on.... we started to do some activities. We were lucky enough to see some free Shakespeare in the Park. "the Comedy of Errors". It was pretty good actually.
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Next day we drove up to the top of a mountain to take in the view.
Went to Fort William Henry (French Indian War Era Fort that had Civil War souvenirs for some reason?)
Went on a GREAT dinner cruise on Lake George. It was nearly empty while the Minne-ha-ha(another cruise boat on Lake George) was sold out. Dinner was good but the view was better. Lots of lovely little islands, huge homes, and great views of the mountains.
Then we went home but not before we stopped at Saratoga National Historic Site, but I was hungry and don't remember what we did. :)
Hurray for the Road Trip!! One day I will try and add some more detail where I skimped :)
August 27, 2007
Our Road Trip #1
Well Ron and I had a fantastic time visiting different ares in New England this summer. We began our trip by renting a car from Enterprise with a GPS unit. This would have been great except that the cars charging port (formerly known as the cigarette lighter) wasn't working. Soooo after we had completely packed the car and almost started on the road we were forced to change vehicles. All of this took some time to decipher of course, we originally thought our GPS was malfunctioning, (but in yet another instance of God working in mysterious ways) when we were packing the car the cell phone charger simply broke into 6 different pieces for NO reason at all. Literally Ron was just holding the thing and it exploded. This led us to purchase a new charged from Target and then we had to test it, when our cell phone charger also wasn't working we figured it out. So two hours late, we were on our way to Mystic, CT.
Mystic, CT
This bit of our trip was frustrating for us. We had intended to arrive in Mystic for lunch but with our car & charger mishaps and 5 HOURS of traffic driving through New York we were quite late. So, we got there around 5 p.m. and had dinner at Mystic Pizza (the one from the Julia Roberts 80's movie). The place was packed when we got there just before the dinner rush but it was positively ridiculous at 6 when we were leaving. We both thought the pizza was good, nothing too special but there is lots of movie memorabilia on the walls. It's a good tourist-y stop.
Actually one of the more interesting aspects of Mystic was that we had our first run-in with a non New Jersey-ian. We were waiting online for the bathroom (of all places) and we struck up a conversation with a resident from New Hampshire who talked to us like we were long lost friends, by the end of the conversation she had invited us to her home. We declined because we weren't going to be anywhere near northern New Hampshire but it was an interesting glimpse into the surprisingly friendly country that exists outside of NJ.
After dinner we looked briefly at the pier there with its historic ships and then hopped back in the car (me driving this time) and we headed towards Sippewisset Camp Ground in Massachusetts.
Sippewissett
Is a truly disgusting little campground with some very nice people who work there. It was FULL of pirates.
pi·rate n. - A person (mostly found in large groups) who are very loud, drink alot and litter. They are often cursing profusely and don't care about the sleeping habits or needs of others. Sometimes they are known to sing bawdy songs, often quite friendly and want you to join their reverie. A fine lot of people really, just not for us.
Our campground there was quite crowded and loud, our tent was located about 4 feet from our neighbors and we heard EVERYTHING they said. The party to our left was a family with one frustrated father who yelled often and often loudly at his whiny children.
We went to sleep at Sippewisset and left early since I decided I could not bring myself to "go" in the facilities located there. The shower had spiders in it and so did the bathroom. This concludes the negative reporting from our trip (for the most part).
Happy to be leaving the campground we took a drive (using our trusty GPS) to Plimoth Plantation. This is a wonderful living history museum, which gave us the first of several bits of information about the Native Peoples of the North East. The museum is broken into four parts, the first is a physical museum with media presentations and exhibits (including a scathing one about Thanksgiving in Americans recent history). The second piece is a re-creation of a Wampanoag Homesite consisting of several huts and work stations. There was also a small field of corn that had been planted in the traditional method of making a small mound, putting a dead fish in that lump of earth and planting the corn in groups around the mound. This is a very successful method of planting but it's odd to our modern eye to see such irregular rows of corn. The Homesite is staffed by people of Wampanoag decent who answer questions you may have about the lifestyles of Native People's in the 1600's.
Then we moved on to the 1627 English village. This was fantastic! The people in this part of the museum are actors who have re-created lives of 1627 immigrants to the New World. The people there have so thoroughly researched their characters that you can literally ask them any questions and they are quick to respond in character. I mean minute details like: who are their neighbors? where does this person sleep? They really created 1627 for you. It was just amazing, the only downside was that they were SO good that Ron and I almost felt uncomfortable taking their pictures! We took much less pictures here than any other place on our trip for that reason!
The third part of the museum is a craft center, which has a couple of exhibits on seasonal eating habits of the natives and settlers. The larger part of the this center is devoted to artisans who work full time creating beautiful pieces of pottery, arrows, baskets and more! Those handmade crafts are then put in the craft store there.
There is also a re-creation of the Mayflower but we didn't have time to see it. So no comments there!
More to come......
Mystic, CT
This bit of our trip was frustrating for us. We had intended to arrive in Mystic for lunch but with our car & charger mishaps and 5 HOURS of traffic driving through New York we were quite late. So, we got there around 5 p.m. and had dinner at Mystic Pizza (the one from the Julia Roberts 80's movie). The place was packed when we got there just before the dinner rush but it was positively ridiculous at 6 when we were leaving. We both thought the pizza was good, nothing too special but there is lots of movie memorabilia on the walls. It's a good tourist-y stop.
Actually one of the more interesting aspects of Mystic was that we had our first run-in with a non New Jersey-ian. We were waiting online for the bathroom (of all places) and we struck up a conversation with a resident from New Hampshire who talked to us like we were long lost friends, by the end of the conversation she had invited us to her home. We declined because we weren't going to be anywhere near northern New Hampshire but it was an interesting glimpse into the surprisingly friendly country that exists outside of NJ.
After dinner we looked briefly at the pier there with its historic ships and then hopped back in the car (me driving this time) and we headed towards Sippewisset Camp Ground in Massachusetts.
Sippewissett
Is a truly disgusting little campground with some very nice people who work there. It was FULL of pirates.
pi·rate n. - A person (mostly found in large groups) who are very loud, drink alot and litter. They are often cursing profusely and don't care about the sleeping habits or needs of others. Sometimes they are known to sing bawdy songs, often quite friendly and want you to join their reverie. A fine lot of people really, just not for us.
Our campground there was quite crowded and loud, our tent was located about 4 feet from our neighbors and we heard EVERYTHING they said. The party to our left was a family with one frustrated father who yelled often and often loudly at his whiny children.
We went to sleep at Sippewisset and left early since I decided I could not bring myself to "go" in the facilities located there. The shower had spiders in it and so did the bathroom. This concludes the negative reporting from our trip (for the most part).
Happy to be leaving the campground we took a drive (using our trusty GPS) to Plimoth Plantation. This is a wonderful living history museum, which gave us the first of several bits of information about the Native Peoples of the North East. The museum is broken into four parts, the first is a physical museum with media presentations and exhibits (including a scathing one about Thanksgiving in Americans recent history). The second piece is a re-creation of a Wampanoag Homesite consisting of several huts and work stations. There was also a small field of corn that had been planted in the traditional method of making a small mound, putting a dead fish in that lump of earth and planting the corn in groups around the mound. This is a very successful method of planting but it's odd to our modern eye to see such irregular rows of corn. The Homesite is staffed by people of Wampanoag decent who answer questions you may have about the lifestyles of Native People's in the 1600's.
Then we moved on to the 1627 English village. This was fantastic! The people in this part of the museum are actors who have re-created lives of 1627 immigrants to the New World. The people there have so thoroughly researched their characters that you can literally ask them any questions and they are quick to respond in character. I mean minute details like: who are their neighbors? where does this person sleep? They really created 1627 for you. It was just amazing, the only downside was that they were SO good that Ron and I almost felt uncomfortable taking their pictures! We took much less pictures here than any other place on our trip for that reason!
The third part of the museum is a craft center, which has a couple of exhibits on seasonal eating habits of the natives and settlers. The larger part of the this center is devoted to artisans who work full time creating beautiful pieces of pottery, arrows, baskets and more! Those handmade crafts are then put in the craft store there.
There is also a re-creation of the Mayflower but we didn't have time to see it. So no comments there!
More to come......
July 22, 2007
July 7, 2007
Monmouth Battle Map
Well this map is probably a little confusing but it's hard to put everything on one map! Lets see if i can describe this thing piecemeal. You can click the map to make it bigger.Ok lets orient the map to you. Bottom left corner is the visitor center where the re-enactment occurs. Aqua line tells you where water is. The black line is 522/Freehold Road.
In the morning of June 28th Charles Lee's advanced force withdrew from attacking the British. The withdrawal was turning to a rout when Lee met Washington just beyond the 522 bridge on the east side. (approx spot shown as yellow X.) Washington admonished Lee and took over putting in place a holding force (shown as 3 blue lines on east side of bridge) (this fighting was very fierce; Col. Monckton British Army was killed, highest ranked officer killed in the battle. You can currently see his grave in Tennet Church cemetery) and then took the rest of the army to the west of the bridge on Perrine Hill. (shown by 5 blue bars on west side of bridge) The rearguard units held the British long enough for Washington to finish regrouping and themselves withdrew across the bridge shown by blue arrows heading torwards Perrine Hill. By mid-day the Americans and British were facing each other on each side of the bridge. This is when the artillery duel began. The largest artillery duel of the war. It went on for several hours. at the same time the British attempted to flank the americans. (shown by 2 red bars. The northern most unit was spotted and quickly withdrew. The unit directly to the east of the Americans came under strong artillery shelling and then attacked with a forced of picked men (shown by blue arror angling torwards the creek away from Perrine Hill.) By the time the Americans pushed all British to the East of the bridge they were alos able to set up artillery on Combs Hill were the visitor center currently is. The made the British position untenable. At this point the British withdrew but being the end of the day and all troops spent the battle came to an end. By morning the Brish had snuck off to continue towards sandy hook.
For some more history on the battle see another of my posts.
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