Trump Plaza Casino & Hotel Atlantic City

I've been wanting to visit the European Christmas Markets for several years now, but my husband was reluctant - he's not a fan of the cold! But this year he relented. I'm approaching one of those "milestone" birthdays, and frankly, I would rather travel than have a party, so this year we are going!

We got brochures in the mail from a number of different companies featuring Christmas Time Cruises. I also ...

... Italian restaurant a la Trump, we strolled along the boardwalk then went back to our room overlooking the ocean. Although we drove only 220 miles today, we travelled for 9 hours, and were tired. So, not finding anything exciting that appealed to us, we went to bed and got a good night’s sleep. That turned out to be one of our better decisions. Are we getting old? Or what? Read on!!

... were at the visitor center planning our tour. Randy found out about the Phlash trolly for only $ 5.00 a person to ride.There were 27 points of interest along the route and you could get off or on at any of them.Way to go Randy you did good.

Everyone had a great time and at the end of the day we went to the famous Pat's and Geno's Philly cheese steak deli's as seen on the Travel Channel. They are across the ...

After another great day of sightseeing in Philly we headed to a Diner for dinner - love it - no cheese wizz this time but great food.
Then we decided to drive over the bridge into New Jersey so we could say we had set foot there and next thing Rosa sees the Alantic city sign and Lucy hits the highway (9:30 at this ...

... me and he flipped out! So now he came to me all nice and didnt say sorry! He just epected that i would be ok with it! But no! Not when you work hard for something then pay for it yourself then someone rips it into millions of pieces? Thats ****!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm mad, but i follow what god says and forgave him even though he didnt say sorry. I cant belivie this! Hopefully this will pass and the summer will be uphill from here. Gosh!

... of its screw up we got to spend more time in the scenic Jersey by the Delaware yeah right.  We get to pay again to leave Jersey.  Any way the pictures tell the story.  The cool thing was we crossed many states in a small distance.  We touched Philly, Delaware and Maryland before we got to beautiful Virginia.  It definitely gets my vote for the most beautiful state East of the Mississippi.  I-81 south on the way to Black Mountain ranks as the most scenic interstate.

Kingsalt. 

... next morning and see some more of Atlantic City and boarkwalk but the weather didn't permit.  It feels as though the rain is following us around.   The Shady Pines park was a sleepover as we could not handle yet another night without showers.  It was disappointing because the sewer connection was backed up and yes it was messy!
 
Damaris with Intro and coda by Kingsalt

... bedsheets - need i say more!! left that early next day and did some washing!

Went into Atlnatic city centre and checked out the seafront and the casinos - its a cross between Blackpool and Vegas! walked up and down the boradwalks and played on a one arm bandit - put in $1 and won a dollar back so broke even ...

... in textiles, im usually on my own, it is insanely hectic the machines keep breaking down on me but hey its all good fun. we have made finger puppets, hats, pillows, fairy wands, we have tie-dyed, batik, silk screening lots and lots of stuff. on saturday we had visiting day where the kids parents come for 5 hours, i have never been so hot in my life, it was insane we had to wear our staff shirts and we were just dripping. We got loads of homemade ...

... job or may not be able to go back to school simply because they lose so much money in gambling. That being said, the first roll turned out a 3. For the rest of the day that I stayed at the Borgata - a long time, actually 5 am until about 4 pm, I trusted the 3rd 12 on the roulette wheel and that was probably the only game in which I reliably gained money. I played blackjack, roulette, *****, texas hold'em and I pretty much lost my 250 bank at 2 pm. At that point, I ...