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perfect weekend
THe North shore weekend
10/12 – 10/13/13
Gina and Todd
show their independence by heading east We love college towns, and we love big cities. This past Fourth of July weekend, we enjoyed the best of both worlds – with a little live music thrown in. We visited our 16-year-old daughter Lane in Princeton, New Jersey, where she was spending the summer in an intensive dance program with the American Repertory Ballet. We brought our 14-year-old daughter Peri with us to celebrate her recent junior high graduation. We stayed at the historic Nassau Inn just a block from the Princeton University campus. On the Fourth itself, we visited the Morven Museum and Garden, the former home of Richard Stockton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence – it seemed appropriate to pay our respects on that historic day. The next day, we strolled through the Princeton University Art Museum and took a campus tour. With its Collegiate Gothic architecture, it might be the most beautiful campus in America. Then we shopped the boutiques and bookstores of Nassau Street and had a terrific dinner with our daughters at Blue Point Grill, an ocean-fresh BYOB seafood restaurant. We topped it off with a visit to The Bent Spoon, one of Princeton’s iconic artisanal ice cream shops.
“We visited the Morven Museum and Garden, the former home of Richard Stockton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence — it seemed appropriate to pay our respects on that historic day.”
Gina and Todd Ehlman, who live in Wilmette, combined two passions for their Perfect Weekend.
photography by joel lerner
The next day, we drove to Hershey, Pennsylvania to see our daughters’ obsession, live in concert: the British boy band One Direction. Do not underestimate how much noise 30,000 screaming teenage girls can make. We spent the rest of the weekend in Philadelphia, staying at the Four Seasons Hotel on Logan Square and playing tourist. We hopped a double-decker bus for a quick tour of the city’s neighborhoods and historic sites — from the Liberty Bell to the Rocky statue — then enjoyed a French bistro dinner at Parc, just across from Rittenhouse Square in the ritziest shopping district of Philadelphia. The next morning, we relaxed at the Four Seasons Spa before heading home. Gina and Todd Ehlman, as told to David Sweet ■
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