14 July 2013 - A Week in New Jersey

With temperatures and humidity in the 90s, a trip to the spray ground was in order.  Here are Madeline and Eden.  No running was the rule, but not always the practice.

Cooling off kept all three girls smiling.

Calista and Madeline shared a drink to re-hydrate after a couple hours in the water.

Eden knows how to strike a pose for the camera.

After Jerry's family left for a family reunion in California, we stayed at their house for a few more days.  Their house is close to Thomas Edison's home and factory in West Orange, so we went to take the tour.

Emily and Jessica in Thomas Edison's chemistry lab.

The family in his photography lab and studio.

On Friday, we went into New York City.  Our first activity was a boat tour around Brooklyn, Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty.

On the boat with the Brooklyn Bridge in the background.

The girls with Manhattan behind.  The tallest, all glass building on the left of this photo is the new World Trade Center.

One last trip to the Statue of Liberty before we move west.

We went to Chinatown in Manhattan for lunch.  Madeline was so excited to use chopsticks.

In front of the Buddhist Temple in Chinatown.

In the evening we went to a show on Broadway.  Potted Potter is a satire that tells the story of the seven books in about an hour and fifteen minutes.  It's very funny, and was actually family friendly, which is rare on Broadway anymore.

When the play ended, we concluded the evening in Times Square.

Joanne found (or was?) an angry bird at the Toys-r-us in Times Square.

After weeks on the road across two continents, we finally headed back to where it all began.  On Saturday we returned to Washington, PA so we could get ready for Joanne and Jessica to go to Girls Camp, and to attend our ward one last time.