My mom's visit out to New Jersey!

My mom made my week and came out to spend several days with me this last weekend. It had been way to long since we had last seen each other. We had great fun!!! Unfortunetly, it rained most of the time she was here so we couldn't do everything we wanted too. We did a lot though. I took my mom down to the Jersey Shore, right around where Jamie is from. We went to Long Beach State Park and walked to the lighthouse that was by there. It was a pretty far walk but my mom and I both handled it very well.






I took her to try some New Jersey pizza which back east is famous for. We kept busy all day. We went to the movie, "the proposal", which was really good. Mom got quite the laugh out of a few parts lol. One of the days, when I had to work with the boys, my mom and I took the boys to the mall and spent several hours there shopping and eating lunch and riding the elevator (the boys favorite thing to do!).





I took mom to Washington State Park for a few minutes, which is a small park on a hill that has a momument dedicated to George Washington and you can look down and see all the surrounding areas into New York. Too bad when we went it was rainy and foggy so we couldn't really see anything.






We spent a day in NYC. It rained on us for a while there but we survived. It felt like we walked all over the city. We wanted to go to the top of the empire state building but since the weather was crappy they said there was zero visibility so we didn't go up.


Empire State Building



We rode up to the upper side of town on the subway (somehow I managed to get us on the right subway) and had lunch at this cute place called, 'Popovers'. It was very yummy and the best part was sharing the chocolate mousse there with mom.



Eating chocolate mousse at Popovers in NYC


Then from the upper side we took the subway down to the lower side by ground zero (world trade center). We spent some time there and also saw St. Paul's church and the Trinity Church. We walked down to Battery Park, which is about as far south as you can go in Manhattan. At the park, they have this amazing statue of a 'sphere' that use to be in front of the World Trade Centers, and was damaged in the attacks. They moved it to Battery Park as a memorial from the attacks.




From Battery Park you can see Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty. By the time we made it down there our feet were about to give out on us lol. We found a subway station to go back up town. It was very interesting how we got into the subway station. Instead of steps leading down into station, there was an elevator that went straight into the ground and took you down. It was kind of freaky lol! From there we were gonna go explore SoHo and Little Italy, but me not being the brightest bulb around, had us get on the wrong train and it took us past that part of town. We didn't have the energy to try and figure our way there again. We ended up getting over to Grand Central Station and then walking over to Times Square. We did a lot of walking and it was tiring, but it was fun! The last day mom was here she spent it with me and the boys since I had to work. We hung out and sat outside by the pool since the sun finally decided to poke its head out for a bit. I had such a great time with mom. I was so happy and glad to be able to show her new sights and places. I hope she can forgive me for being such a pain in the butt lol. We got lots of fun pictures. I am not gonna put all of them on here but a lot of them are on my face book for people to look at. Thanks for coming to see me mom!!!