The day after Thanksgiving, we all had the day off and so we thought we’d take an overnight trip to Trenton NJ / Langhorne PA.

First stop was Sesame Place and the whole gang was there:

Yup it was cold…

But look who we ran into!!!!!

Then at night the lights came on…

It was super-cold and awesome 🙂

We hadn’t been on a road trip for a while…so we were due!

First stop was to  Point Pleasant Beach to see the world’s tallest sandcastle:
(can you pick the three human sand-castles?)

Point Pleasant Beach:

We checked out Jenkinson’s boardwalk  and found a little treat:

Next up was a short drive along the sea shore to Long Branch:
(point “B” in the map at the top)

for lunch:

It was a fun excursion 🙂

I could resist a few happy snaps of the Fall colours during a trip to the playground at Watchung Reservation. The colours are simple stunning 🙂

After spending all day at home with poor sick Eli, we thought we would go for a quick drive around town and check out some of the Houses that had gotten into the spirit of Halloween:

Thanks guys for adding to the fun of Halloween 🙂

The much anticipated Tiger’s party at Lachie’s school:

The much anticipated school parade at Eli’s school:

Unfortunately poor Eli was sent home from school shortly after with a temperature, so the town parade was ruled out this year.   We did fit in a small-dash of local trick-or-treating though:

We were just happy after two failed attempts, to finally have electricity on Halloween and the opportunity to dress up and have some fun.

Happy Halloween!

Halloween can’t come soon enough! To complete Eli’s Halloween outfit we made the mistake of impulse buying a scented broom at the local supermarket to complete her outfit. Ever since the entire house has reeked of cinnamon / five spice / baking spices. Our house now has a – 24 hour – non stop – baking smell. We are going batty!