New Jersey - day 5

The time has come for us to go. After 5 days of living it up at casa Sassafras we are set to make the trip back to reality. We were certainly ready to see the kids, but leaving NJ would be bittersweet.

We made some final stops at a few historical sites, standing in the very places George Washington and his troops stood while waging a fierce war against the British. You can stand there and imagine thousands of men in a blizzard with no shoes, no fires burning, cold water all around them, wondering what the hell they were doing here. Washington spent many anxious days and nights in NJ, but it was his innate ability to be cool under pressure that made him so powerful.









Here's me with our lovely hostess SM:


Here we are with the boy in the garden near GW's camp:




We walked across the bridge from Lambertville, NJ to New Hope, PA (I'm a little cloudy on the town names, but I think that's right). I know it was definitely Lambert-something because I kept thinking of singer Adam Lambert when we were walking through the town. Oddly enough, on our flight from Newark to Chicago I sat beside a guy from New Hope, PA. Small world. The view from the bridge was beautiful:






We stepped into PA just far enough to take some photos.




Goodbye, New Jersey. We'll be back soon. Save those underpants.