Update on our stuff: We rang in the New Year with a fun party at our place where we drank and feasted and were generally stupid until late in the evening! Good times had by all I imagine!
Then of course I got sick, this time I managed to acquire Tonsillitis and Sinusitis in the same time. I went to the doctor when I couldn’t swallow anymore and had a fever. Ah well, thank God for anti-biotics, I’m back on my feet kicking and dancing.
My mom had surgery to have her gallbladder out. The defective little thing came out without any complications, but the recuperation is always a pain (literally). I’m pleased to report she is back to work, doing half days and catching up. She’ll be 100% in no time at all!
Ron has been hunting and hunting and hunting, but he did find time to take a drive to Sandy Hook with me to see some Historic lighthouses in Atlantic Highlands. The Twin Lights of Navesink are no longer operational, but they are beautifully old, and have an interesting history. There is a small museum and gift shop located there as well, and a great view of the Sea. Afterwards we went to Fort Hancock a (mostly) abandoned naval base in Sandy Hook. Ron had visited several times before while fishing, but I had never seen it before. Really rather creepy!
Overall, it’s been a good time in New Jersey.
January 16, 2008
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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!
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