How did you spend your Memorial Day Weekend?

After living my whole life here at the Jersey Shore, I’ve become gun shy when it comes to embracing the weekend summer traffic, the Bennys.  I’ve always avoided that term because I realize these Bennys, while responsible for traffic, litter, spikes in violent crimes and a strain on shore communities also provide a seasonal financial boost for towns all along the Jersey Shore, including Jackson, as home to Six Flags Great Adventure.

On Memorial Day weekend, we stay close and haven’t ventured out of Jackson.   Saturday started as a yard maintenance day followed by an afternoon poolside then a private family bar-b-q.    This morning has been a lazy morning and I had a few projects to complete by Tuesday, so it was a work morning for me.   Hoping the good weather sticks around, we’re having a small family bar-b-q again and will spend the afternoon again poolside, pending forecasted thunderstorms.      Tomorrow is still up  in the air, we’ve turned down all Memorial Day party invites because these days everything is hard due to the 6 month old baby boy, so we’ll probably end up at one of the parks if the weather is nice and like every other day this weekend, end it with a poolside bar-b-q again.

I’m in no rush to start summer, we have 4 full months of great weather ahead of us and to rub elbows with out of towners on a hot sticky day isn’t my idea of relaxation.     In the summer, I usually take off one day a week and work Saturdays, so we do all of our beach and boardwalk activities on that day when there’s not as many crowds.  For us, Memorial Day weekend has become a time of rest from the busy winter and spring.    During the summer I have a part time gig in GoKidsNJ that has me traveling all around the state nearly three times a week meeting with businesses and taking in the surroundings.

How did you spend your Memorial Day weekend?