Down the shore

On my last day in New Jersey this summer, I went down the shore with my parents to Ocean Grove. It was a brutally hot day in West Orange, but lovely next to the water.

On the other side of that water and across a few mountain ranges live three of my sisters. Did you see me wave?

The dunes on the Jersey shore are just a little bit different from the Michigan dunes.

Besides having nice sand, good waves, and decent company, Ocean Grove has a boardwalk and cute beach houses. I was lazy with the camera - these ones aren't the nicest, they look fairly new. There are some older ones with gingerbread and whatnot. They'd look ridiculous anywhere but a shore town. Here they belong.

And we had ice cream at Nagle's, an old pharmacy, my favorite.