I'm in Wildwood Baby!

I’m coming to you live from Wildwood, New Jersey! Not actually live, but you know what I mean. We got to ‘our’ condo yesterday at about 3:00 p.m. and from there we went to the beach, which is about a 1 minute walk from our front porch. It is so beautiful here! I have to admit, I kind-of hate the place we’re staying even though it’s actually really nice. The best way I can describe my sentiment towards this condo is that it makes me feel weird when I’m inside it. My family doesn’t understand either and they keep telling me to suck it up. Oliver is giving me all this psychological stuff from college about exposure therapy and things.

       Anyway, we can see the boardwalk to the beach and the pier from in front of the condo and the pier is my favorite place so far. There are dozens of little beach shops and tourist attractions, including an amusement park, monster truck rides, antique photo booths and fried Oreo stands. I got some cute sunglasses there yesterday! The beach is really big and beautiful, and so far it’s almost empty because most people are still in school or at work.

     We don’t have Wi-Fi at our condo (which is actually our neighbor’s condo that they have offered us a bazillion times. Only now are we taking advantage of their offer.)  So I’m quickly writing this up at ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­McDonalds. I really wanted to post at least once while we are here (which is until Sunday) and hopefully I’ll get a chance to write at least once more before we leave. I think we’re going to Five Guys today and I’m really excited about it because I’ve never been there. It’s not really a nice beach day unfortunately, so I’m not sure what else we’re going to do later! Tomorrow we’re probably going to the beach and grocery shopping, and Thursday we’re (I think) going to see Mom’s Night Out at the theatre!!!!! I am psyched to see it because the previews look hysterical. Have any of you seen it? Is it good?

     OH MY GOODNESS! I HAVE TO TELL YOU ABOUT YESTERDAY! Yesterday was one of the most spectacular days I’ve had in a really long time for two reasons: One, my family went to Carlo’s Bakery yesterday! Most of you reading this probably know that already…but it was insane! Like Buddy from Cake Boss and The Next Great Baker films his shows there! It was so much fun even though we didn’t see anyone from the actual show while we were there. We got cannolis and chocolate mousse cheese cakes and my mom got this fantastic looking gluten-free cake. Carlo’s Bakery is in the middle of Hoboken, New Jersey and that city is really cool! We got to walk around a little bit and it really made me want to live in the city. It was funny because we were *ahem* mocking the people on the show Cake Boss because of their New Jersey accents and they talk with very…distinct voices I guess. And Buddy Valastro has several phrases that he always uses on the show so we had a good time copying those too!

So that’s the 411 on what’s going on here In NJ! If anything else exciting happens I’m crossing my fingers that I’ll be able to get to a place with Wi-Fi to tell you about it J  To quote Buddy the Cake Boss, “That’s how we do it Hoboken style baby!”

XO Charlotte