New Jersey

Well this last weekend didn't go as well as I had hoped for. It was one thing after another that was a huge disappointment. Instead of taking us only 5 hours to get to our hotel from our house it took 10 hours. We got stuck in traffic and went 3 miles in 3 hours. There was major construction going on in the middle of the night on the main highway to the north. The highway went from 4 lanes down to 1. The next day on the way back to the hotel there was an accident right in front of the only entrance to the hotel so we decided to just go to the restaurant and wait for the next 2 hours so that we wouldn't have been late for that. Then Saturday I had to wake up at 5am to take Matt to PT (mandatory physical exercise for military) and waited there on the base all morning because the hotel was more than 20 miles away. So I hung out with another army wife in her hotel room on the base. Then we finally went to Six Flags. You would think that Six Flags would be a family amusement park but on this day it was not, and some of the military families were very embarrassed for their kids with what some of the park visitors were wearing. The were pretty much not wearing anything at all. Areas that should be covered up were hanging out all over the place, and it was not a fashion that was just worn by the thin and beautiful, everyone was wearing it. We only went on 2 rides in 5 hours to give you an idea of how busy it was, and every ride we wanted to go on broke just as we were about to go on it so we didn't have the best of luck. There is a Safari thing that we did before we went into the park and that was cool. You drive your vehicle through the park and most of the animals are free roaming all around you. The only ones behind a fence were the lions, tigers, and monkeys, (the monkeys have a tenancy to throw poop at your car too.) I have some pix from that for you guys. Needless to say, I am very much looking forward to Vegas this weekend and I know that it will be way more fun than last weekend. And only 12 days away until the cruise, and some amazing Mexican Food. I AM SO EXCITED!!

~This ostrich was pecking on the cars!~

~Giraffe personal bug cleaner~

~Same Giraffe waiting for its next vehicle to clean~

~These rhinos were only 10 feet away~

~The animals wait for no one, this zebra wanted to get to the other side of the street.~

~Simba and Nala~

~The bear crossing right in front of our vehicle we were in~

~The Roo's eating~

~Tiger just chillin' on his own~

~A poop flinging monkey!~