Being the birthplace of the nation it resides in, Philadelphia gets *nuts* around July 4 (Independence Day in America). Now, I like colonial history as much as the next geek, but there's a point at which it's just not worth it to wrestle with the crowds.
Instead, Big M and I did a little crossing of the Delaware ourselves, and spent a few days in New Jersey. July 4th itself was great, we played some mini-putt and went go-kart racing (by the way, The Funplex has 36 holes of miniature golf, spread across two courses).
As fun as it was, The Funplex was plan B. The original schedule had us watching the Transformers movie, and the Google Maps directions to the cinema were pretty representative of some of the moves that need to be made while driving in Jersey:
[ New Jersey: Under no circumstances turn left ]Ah, the distinctive "jughandles" of Jersey's highways. I find the u-turn needed near the end of the journey shown here to be particularly priceless.
As a hardly related aside. I love Turtle Pops. Turtle Pops are Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles characters made out of ice cream, with gumball eyes. A few weeks ago, while at a picnic (in Babbage Park, New Jersey -- named after the person you probably think it is), Big M chased down an ice cream van to get me a Turtle Pop.
That, my friends, is love.
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