Garden State

Yesterday we spent the day in Princeton, NJ. Our friends and neighbors, Ellie and Josh and their two kids ages 4.5 and almost 2 used to live there and invited us to accompany them on a day trip. Rich played hooky from work, we hopped in our Zip car (love, love, love the Zip car) and headed to Jersey.

We started at Terhune Farms to do some strawberry picking. Theo was not into that particular part of the day as he was tired and hot but he was all about checking out the animals and climbing the tractors. We got gobs of berries, drank apple cider slushies (YUM!), fed hissing geese, saw some chickens and a bunny and then went into the town of Princeton. In town we ate at a local diner, got ice cream and the kids (and Rich) played in a great big fountain/wading pool. Theo was not happy to get out of the fountain despite the fact that he had lost his balance and went all the way under water a few times. He's turning into quite the water baby.

Theo slept the entire way home, went to bed a little after 8:30, Rich and I forced ourselves to eat something for dinner and then crawled into bed and were asleep before 10. It was a lovely, lovely day and so nice to get a break from the city. According to our friends we pretty much did everything there is to do in Princeton so it was a perfect day trip. I hope we can do more throughout the summer.