July Appendix III: A Land of Extreme Wonder

A good while back I learned about Northlandz from Natalie and Jake and on July 21st I was finally able to visit. What is Northlandz? Why it’s the World's Largest Miniature Wonderland. But to call it that is to severely undersell Northlandz and the Northlands experience. This is simply a place to which you absolutely must go someday.

Here are photos from outside Northlandz and the Northlandz gift shop, lobby, and various party rooms off of the lobby. Two curious features of the lobby: a pick your flavors Skittles machine and a, er, boy wrapped up in a blanket and sleeping on a chair?

And now, let us walk through Northlandz and admire the tracks and tracks and tracks of trains and miniature village (or city) after miniature village. I tried so hard to get the number of photos posted down from the 300’ish I took and I DID…but there were still so many photos I just HAD to share with you. Please. Slow your scroll. Enjoy these miniature wonders!

After Northlandz we were nowhere near done with New Jersey for the day. We also: Ate a Mexican pizza (no photos), visited Ikea (no photos, but I admire the candlesticks Liz got there nearly every day), and visited the American Dream, the humungous new mall — but I only have pictures from the Nickelodeon amusement park and of the indoor ski slope in there:

Then we went to the Weehauken Dueling Grounds to see where Alexander Hamilton got shot

And then, manohman, dinner at Hiram’s! I had a chili dog and a chili burger and here’s the burger.

And that’s it! Brigham and Liz’s summer in New York has been blogged! But I believe I’ve still got a couple more NYC posts to make before I can call my 20 years there Fully Blogged.