To The Jersey Shore Or Bust!

After wandering the streets of our past we hopped into the rental car for an evening at the New Jersey Shore...I call it the beach...But in New Jersey it's called the Shore...I'm not sure why....But that's what they do....The traffic at the beginning of the trip did not look too bad.....But it got very slow and took a lot longer to drive down than we expected....

Off we go on our New Jersey highway adventure...Do we take the parkway or route 18....And why is it that my husband who has lived in New Jersey almost his entire life has decided that he doesn't remember which exit to take if he wants to take route 18???...We haven't been away that long!

Finally an hour or more later we are at our Parkway Exit...Number 98 for Point Pleasant and Manasquan New Jersey!

Our next food experience of the day.....Carlson's Corner's "Cheese With"....They actually call it a "Carlson burger"....But for those who spent their whole life going here they call it a "Cheese With"  It's a really good Cheese burger....you also have to get the fries too!  One thing they don't have that I love is Fry Sauce...That is not an east coast thing...My husband looks so very happy!

The nice thing was that the food was just like we remembered it....perhaps just a bit more expensive...This was our weekly trip in the summer...Almost every Saturday we would pack up our beach gear and drive down to Manasquan in the evening ...we would eat at Carlson's or Gee Gee's and then spend the late afternoon and into the night on the beach.... Having an ice cream cone before driving home.....It always felt like we had been away for days instead of hours.....That is something we wish we had in Utah a place to go that feels like you have left everything behind for days.....perhaps we just haven't looked hard enough..

By the time we finished eating the sun had gone down and it was time for Fire works...We walked down and found a nice spot by the water to watch.  The weather was perfect....

We also got to visit with old friends....I was glad that my husband had time to see his friends and talk about all their old New Jersey Shore adventures...Our boys also had a great time visiting and talking about boy things....and my daughter got time to just relax and enjoy....Thanks for the wonderful evening Brad and Sue!
G.G.