Showing posts with label New Jersey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Jersey. Show all posts
on the boardwalk at atlantic city
... atlantic city. is a city in new jersey famous for it's boardwalk (which is a good few miles), giving access to hotels, casinos, shops and more making a total seaside city resort. also famous for its casino gambling, view of Atlantic ocean, sandy beaches, shops, shows and also the site of Absecon Lighthouse ...
i only knew of the "boardwalk" from monopoly, it's that last lot before passing GO with a really high price tag (rent or purchase), good when you own it, bad when you "rent" it...o well, good it's only a game. we got to walk on a real boardwalk on atlantic city, columbus day of last year (oct 12, 08) was the first time and we've been back several times. the boardwalk basically is a long walkway made of boards with the beach and atlantic ocean on one side and hotels, casinos, malls, museums on the other side.
our first stop was to visit the Ripley's Believe it or Not museum, it's about a 30-45minute visit for a minimal fee (less than $20 i think). they have everything unusual (a hand-painted butterfly, a big picture made of jelly beans, carved miniature rooms and buildings with amazing detail are some examples). the city also has more than a dozen casino hotels (looks like it), the korean veteran memorial, a mall, an amusement park (steel pier). you can rent a bike and enjoy the boardwalk that way or you can ride their version of a sikad-sikad for a $5 fee i think. if you like lighthouses, don't forget to visit absecon lighthouse by rhode island ave, it's non active but then again still a good photo op.
they also host a lot of filipino shows, they've had eat bulaga, the divine divas (zsa-zsa, regine, kuh and pops) but we never got to watch those. we did watch the most recent one with gary and martin. i've never seen too many filipinos all at once (of course i've seen more when you go to church at home on a christmas day, but i meant here in the US). the show was so worth it...oh i love you gary .... oh, and you too martin (martin's my husband's fave, mine's gary) ... all i can say, as much as i love gary all by himself, the show AS ONE wouldn't have been as great as it was without martin, he has an amazing, amazing voice...
atlantic city...good to have it close by for shows and concerts but i'm not sure if i'd be a frequent visitor otherwise. i've seen their lighthouse, ate boardwalk fries, enjoyed the sunset by the ocean and i'm good ... no gambling for me, i couldn't afford it. ask me again in 5-10 years and we'll see, i'll have enough pennies saved for slot machines by then, hehe....2009 New Jersey Lighthouse Challenge
and needless to say, we did the challenge and we completed it! all 4 meadowlakers woke up at 5:30am, left the house at 6:30am, had our breakfast in the car (mcdonalds pancakes), it was raining and it was dark.
we reached lighthouse #1: the sandy hook lighthouse at 8:30am; #2: twin lights (navesink highlands), one of the best, you get a good top view of the New York Bay, we reached this at about 10:00am; #3: sea girt lighthouse at about 11:00am, it was raining hard, we were hungry. so, we ate lunch in the car by the harbor (we have our rice (with the rice cooker haha), a bucket of KFC and gravy of course, YUM!); then off to #4: 1st Order Fresnel Lens at Barnegat Museum, this was at 12:00 noon, time running fast, challenge is only up to 6PM today...DALI!
continue to #5: Barnegat lighthouse, best harbor ever, very nice, very cold, brrrrrr!, we were here at ~12:30pm #6: tucker's island lighthouse at around 1:30pm (it's actually just a museum now coz the original lighthouse toppled into the water in 1927; #7: absecon lighthouse in atlantic city at 2:30pm?; #8: 1st Fresnel Lens at Cape May Historical Museum, it's getting dark, i'm not sure of the time anymore, maybe 3:30pm?
we're moving slow now, we were hoping to finish everything in a day but the lighthouses were not easy to find, so we got lost more than a few times. #9: herefore inlet lighthouse at 4:30pm? #10: cape may lighthouse at 5:30pm, we were here before so we took pictures just for documentation and then we zoomed out to go to #11: tinicum lighthouse at about 7:00pm, we did out night climb and we were done for the day...oct 18, we heard mass at 7:30am then off we went to #12: finn's point lighthouse at about 9:30am;
we reserved #13: east point lighthouse for last, not because it was special but because the GPS couldn't find it ... at finn's point there were a lot of challengers and so we followed their lead....and we reached the last lighthouse at about 10:30AM and it turned out to be pretty special anyway. it looked beautiful, the sky was clearing up and it was so close to Maurice River, the view was awesome!
and so, with the challenge done and our lighthouse passports complete, we head home, me with my cough and cold, my hubby all tired, the little boy exhausted but altogether excited and happy ... shall do we the maryland and the long island lighthouse challenge people??? READY, SET, GOOOOOO!
...appreciating God's wondrous paradise...
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- pearl
- i am filipino, proud of my origin ... i have been blessed to be working in the US; i have my hubby and my little boy with me and every weekend (almost!) we try to do something interesting...whether it be in our town, a few miles away, more than a few miles, nearby states or (once or twice) even a plane ride away ....
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