2009-04-12 Chronicles of Maura, April 12, 2009

It was going to be another eventful weekend for Maura. How often did she get to go out on a road trip for so many weekends in a row back in San Francisco? Not that often. It wasn't that she hated being indoors. She enjoyed the comfort of a warm bed, high speed internet access, and a refrigerator stocked with goodies. Maura liked to be around her mom. It was just an added bonus when she would be able to see new places and learn about new things with her mom. This weekend, Maura and her mom were going down to Princeton to visit her uncle. Her mom's plan was to do a bit of shopping with her uncle.

Here is a view from the train down to Princeton Junction from New York Penn Station. The trip costs only about $10 each way. Ducks can travel for free of course. Maura enjoyed watching all the buildings and forests and ponds as they whizzed by. I think this is the town of Brunswick.






After Maura and her mom arrived at the train station, they waited for uncle to arrive to pick them up. The weather was very nice, and the trees were starting to blossom. Here are some of the photos nearby the station.
Maura is staring off into the nearby thicket of trees. She is wary of going out there all alone. There might be ticks out there.
Maura is naturally drawn to the pond. Instinct really. She knows better to dip her webbed feet into the water though. She likes to swim in properly chlorinated swimming pools.





Here is Maura sitting on her mom's lap in the car. They went to Ikea to pick up some furniture for uncle Shige.
And here is Uncle Shige posing in front of the New York Stock Exchange.