Where-To-Go Wednesday - Jenkinson's Aquarium

What : Jenkinson's Aquarium

Where: 300 Ocean Avenue
             Pt.Pleasant, NJ

Who: Everyone

Our view: Jenkinson's Aquarium is a nice little aquarium down the Jersey shore in Pt. Pleasant. It is especially good for younger kids who may not yet have the attention span for a larger aquarium. It is right by the beach so it is a nice cool place to go for an hour or two to get out of the sun on a hot beach day in Pt. Pleasant. It can be crowded because there are often school groups and/or camp groups there as one of the aquarium's main mission's is education. These groups are usually there from around 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM Monday - Friday so you may want to avoid these times if you want to avoid crowds. Despite, it's beach location, the Aquarium is open all year round. Accordingly, another way to try to avoid the crowds is to go in the winter when there is more likely to be less people in the vicinity of the beach.  In the summer, the hours are from 10 to 10. In September and October the hours vary so check before you go. In the winter, the hours are from Monday through Friday 9:30 - 5:00 and Saturday and Sunday 10:00 -  5:00. The cost is reasonable too at $10.00 for adults and $6.00 for children 3-12 and seniors over 62. Children under three are free. One admission gets you in all day even if you go out and come back again. Birthday parties are available all year around starting at $250.00 but they are not available on weekends in the summer.

Note: Jenkinson's is known for their penguins. Earlier this summer. the penguins habitiat was being renovated and they were not on display so if you intend to go I would recommend confirming that the penguins are back on display first.

For more about Jenkinson's Aquarium go to http://www.jenkinsons.com/aquarium.

Tune in tomorrow for another Talking Topic.

Tips for Tuesday - TV Shows: Sabrina the Teenage Witch & Unwrapped

Me - I am recommending Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Sabrina the Teenage Witch is a really good show about a girl who finds out she is a witch and goes to live with her aunts who are also witches. Her magic is always getting her into trouble. She solves her problems with the help of her talking cat, Salem. It is a good family show, and if you try it with your family, I am sure you will enjoy it. Even though they no longer make new episodes and they haven't in years, it is still a great show.

Mom - Today I am recommending  Unwrapped on the food network. Unwrapped tells you how classic foods are made. They have had episodes on everything from ice cream to carnival treats to foods that are orange to just about any category of food you can think of. Don't watch on an empty stomach, it will make you hungry. I always have to restrain myself from rushing to my computer to order many of the delicious looking foods they talk about on the show. The downside to Unwrapped besides that it makes you hungry is that they do not seem to produce new episodes that often so there are a lot of reruns.

And that's our view. Tune in tomorrow for Where-to-go Wednesday.

Pillows

Me - Pillows, wow!  I love pillows. I have two pillows. One time when my Mom and Dad got pillows, I insisted that I needed one too but I never used it. I like a firm pillow, but not too firm. I don't like them too squishy or too hard. I like my pillow pets better than my regular pillows. They are more fun to look at and more comfortable. However, I always use my regular pillow with my pillow pet otherwise it is too squishy. Right now,  I have three pillow pets. I have a lamb that I got from my cousin for my birthday once. I have a unicorn that my Dad got me from Five Below. I also have a panda that I got for a holiday gift. Every night I sleep with my unicorn pillow. I first had my lamb and then my unicorn and then my panda. I used to try to sleep with all of them at the same time. However, my bed wasn't big enough to use all three of them. I hope to get more pillow pets.

Mom - It so hard to find the perfect pillow. Some are too hard and others are too soft. When I try to sit up in bed and lean on pillows, I can never get comfortable. I can never get the right amount of pillows and the right degree of height. After a while, my head always ends up hurting because it is too hard. It is either too hard because the pillows are too hard or because the pillows are too soft, and I start feeling the wall behind them. My husband and I have a king size bed, but we keep three regular size pillows on it instead of two king sized ones. I sleep on one. He sleeps on one. Our cat sleeps on one. She has been sleeping on a pillow next to me since she was a baby even before my husband and I were married or even a couple. When she was a baby, she would never sleep on her pillow during the day only at night. Sometimes during the day, I would sit up using my pillow and her pillow, when she was ready to go to sleep, she would meow at me until I put her pillow back so she could lie down on it. Now, that she is older she sometimes lies on her pillow during the day too. When she wants to lie on her pillow, if somebody else is lying on it or things are in her way, she will meow or just stand there and stare at us until everything and everybody is moved out of the way of her getting to her pillow. Once, I didn't like the pillow I had so I tried to trade pillows with my cat. She knew it was not her pillow, and she would not sleep on it until put her pillow back. I hate new pillows. They always have to be broken in until they get comfortable. Once I got this new pillow, and I got my husband to sleep on it, when it got broken in and it got comfortable, I took it back. He never lets me forget about that, and I could never get him to do that again.

And that's our view. What kind of pillow do you prefer?

Tune in tomorrow for Tips for Tuesday.