After our meal, we went back to the apartment, packed up our bags, and hopped on NJ Transit to head out to my parent's house for Thanksgiving! Here's Meredith's impression of "someone from New Jersey."
...to take the train out to New Jersey to visit my mom and dad. AND to help them clean out their garage. After 22 years of living in the same house in Succasunna, NJ - my parents had finally decided to sell the house and start moving down to Florida for the winter!
A little before 11pm, we got to our train and were totally bummed to discover that we had seats instead of a sleeper car! When we were booking our tickets, the man at the travel agency had asked me something that was strangely worded, something like "Do you want to sleep in bunks or next to each other?" and I replied "Next to each other."
As soon as we saw our train seats, I thought back to this and realized that he'd been asking us if we wanted a sleeper car or just to sleep side by side sitting up in the seats. Doh. (I guess I just figured there was a different type of sleeper car where you could sleep in big pull out bed instead of bunk beds. Hi, I'm a moron).
I love the way the water and grass contrasts with all the old, abandoned industrial train tracks and factories from when this area was huge manufacturing district.
On Sunday I took the train out to NJ to visit my parents and grandparents. For whatever reason, I only took pictures of the train ride and no pictures of people! Hahaha. I don't know why, but I really love the strange, swampy marshland that's in New Jersey right outside of New York City.
