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As Christmas time approaches, we were invited to take the kids and judge a gingerbread competition at The Friends of The Frelinghuysen Arboretum.

OK, "invited" might be a strong word but we thought the kids would have a good time looking at the gingerbread houses as well and might develop a critical eye.

Please, who ...

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... and a northeastern hardwood forest are the main characteristics of the park.”
(from http://www.state.nj.us/dep/parksandfore sts/parks/cheesequake.html)

As we walked down the path, the kids decided they want to look for bears!
Bears?
Could it be that the kids are scarred from their fearsome battle with Winnie the Pooh at Disney?

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... train to Princeton junction, that's the end, right? Nope, once at Princeton Junction, its time for the Dinky. What is the Dinky you say? The Dinky is the small 2 car train that takes you from Princeton Junction to the Princeton Campus. Greg helps me find the way, and joy of joys once again, The Dinky arrives at the same time I do. 10 minutes later, the Dinky arrives and now all I have to do is follow the ...

... There are a couple of organizations we have been in contact with or researched for our trip: World Wide Opportunities for Organic Farming (WWOOF), World of Good Fair Wage Fellowship, Grassroots Soccer in Africa, and Sarala micro-financing institution in West Bengal/Calcutta regions. We are also going to visit some of our much cooler and more organized friends who have received fellowships to do humanitarian projects ...

... Airport so close to the house! It was door to door only about 30 minutes and door to flight gate only about 40 minutes. That is more than cut in half from my old commute in Detroit! The airport is nice and simply, yet large enough to get great priced flights out, what a deal!!! I might give you another blog before I leave for Edinburgh, but you'll just have to wait and see... Anticipating HIM, Mark

... Hairspray" has a lottery for 20 front row tickets every night. If you win, you pay only $25 for two front and center tickets to the show. We decided to head down and put our names in the drawing. After Whitney's attempt at this on her last trip turned up fruitless, we felt our chances weren't too good. But sure enough, the first winning name called was "Whitney Barnes" and after a gleeful shout of "HERE!", she claimed our tickets. The show was ...

... to Ellis Island for lunch. We were short on time and did not see much of the building. Back on Manhattan, we met our guide, Bruce Roberts. He told us that New York is a city of 8 million people. Five million more come into work every week day. We visited Ground Zero where the World Trade Center used to stand. Each building was 110 stories high. On 9/11 ...

... of the city so i went back over Manhattan Bridge to Chinatown to look for some food. Nothing doing unfortunately, so I starved as I walked up through Chinatown, Little Italy and into Greenwich Village. It was 10ish so I hit the pit. Met Rachel in the lounge at 10am the next morning as we were going to check out the American Museum of Natural History, suggested donation $12 each, actual donation $3, errr between 2. They said just give what you can afford, and we were skint ...

... down. And completed my daily log. Day/Date: Tuesday November 10, 1998 Start: 8 AM. Stop 7 PM. Dollars Start $2,320 Spent $101 End $2,219 Mileage Start 365 Drove 457 End 822 Room $67.21 Gas $12 Food $17 Fees $5 (toll roads) Total $101.21 Day #2 Avg $ Day $90 Avg M Day 411 Stayed at: Days Inn, Princeton, NJ