What a tangled web!

Yesterday, our second trip to Jenkinson's this season. Read about our first trip here, especially if you are unfamiliar with Jenkinson's.

After school with a couple of friends. There was actually shore traffic down route 34 since last weekend was rotten and this weekend is supposed to be great. But the traffic added only 10 or 15 minutes on, so not terrible. Just enough time for the friends to wander down to the water and make it difficult for us to find them when we eventually arrived!

But we did find them, or they found us and we rode on rides until 6:30.

At just about 36" tall, there are plenty of rides for the baby. I went through 120 tickets ($50) in 90 minutes. Yes, the rides are expensive, usually three sometimes four tickets each. And multiply that by three kids! But we don't go down very often and it won't be too long before they outgrow this type of simple entertainment. Already, my older one (and his friend) were begging to play video games in the arcade instead of riding rides. How does he know that the arcade even exists? We used their restroom during our last visit.

On our way out, a NJ Transit commuter train headed for Bay Head was pulling into the station. So did we, just to watch it come and go. Then, reached the drawbridge on 35 just in time for it to go up for a tall boat to pass under. Just one boat. The bridge was up and down in no time. But the southbound traffic on 35 got very, very backed up in that small amount of time. As I said, there was still some shore traffic last night.

Our original plan had been to meet Jeff at work and go to Seven Presidents in Long Branch. By the time we left Jenkinson's, 'though, it would be dark and Seven Presidents would be closed. Still, it's enough of a treat for the boys to visit where Daddy works (for how much longer, I don't know). So, took the Parkway up and let the kids run around the office cubes for a while.