NJ Explorations, Traditions

Last year during my Christmas NJ time, my father took some vacation days and toured me through parts of the state that I had been curious about; this year, we decided it'd become tradition.  Hence, Thursday morning, we rolled down 287 toward Morristown, to see what there was to see.

We found ourselves [by way of a closed attraction we'd been planning first] at the local museum, where I enjoyed the toy room the best, and these pieces of art the most:

Puzzle pieces, in circular motion...

Those beads you iron together...ironed together COOL

pot holders!

A tower of junked matchbox cars

Look at this! It's the alphabet, carved into pencils!

Scrabbley birds...


Then, it was time for lunch. 

 We found this yummy pizza at a place downtown and gobbled it up.  Then, we asked the people working the place where we should go to next, and they suggested:

Washington's Headquarters. 

The Continental Army camped near Morristown in the winter of 1779 you see, and this is the house that Washington and his men commandeered.  We took the tour,

and I enjoyed seeing such an old, neat house.

Then, to 287 we returned, for my dad to hand me over to my mom, who took me shopping.

[We have traditions too you see, including but not limited to the Crate & Barrel after Christmas Sale.]

Then, we hit the road again.

We sat in merging traffic, knowing that any amount of NJ rubber necking was well worth our next tradition:

 Bobby's Burger Palace is Bobby Flay's restaurant,

 which is fun,

 and DELICIOUS.

 Uncle John and Aunt Nancy met us [in what has also become tradition] and we enjoyed each other's company one last time.

 [Right girls?]

Celebrations and Traditions over, I left the next morning for my next phase of fun, fully full.