 The Tropicana has a whole complex attached, with shops, restaurants and very cool holiday decorations |
 Fans at the Trop |
 Tropicana sky - complete with snow sometimes! |
 Decorations in one of the casinos |
 Snowman 1 |
 Snowman 2 |
 View from our room at Trop (thanks, Al!) |
 Trop tree |
 Windmills at dawn from parking lot, Borgata |
 Sign seen from parking lot |
 I drove up to Normandy Beach from Barnegat |
 Walkway to beach, Thanksgiving morning |
 More beach |
 A creative lamp post in Normandy Beach |
 The other Normandy Beach sign |
 Angry surf |
 A typical house in serene N. Beach |
 Thanksgiving dinner at Carmines-but with traditional turkey dinner instead of Italian! |
 Ruth and Howard |
 Al and Pat |
 Al and Pat with the lady |
 Ben and Gina came over from Philly |
 Howard |
 Sunrise from hotel room, Borgata |
 I went back to Barnegat Lighthouse Friday morning - finally had great weather |
 The maintenance man befriended me and showed me that the foundation was poured in 1908 |
 Barnegat through the trees |
 Barney from the other side |
 Steps in Barney |
 The view from up top - Barney. Great working boats in harbor below, but didn't have time to photograph them! |
 Up top on Barney |
 with some effort, you could see Absecon lighthouse from the Borgata |
 I took a bus down to the Absecon Lighthouse |
 Absecon from one side |
 The "Van Duyne" boat at Absecon |
 Windmills at Atlantic City |
 I fell in love with this billboard on the boardwalk at AC |
 In places, the AC boardwalk looks a little like the wild, wild west! |
 Life saving station |