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Places to see and experience in and around NJ

I had written a post on this subject before. While reading it, I thought I needed to update it.
I wanted to suggest what type of experiences a US visitor should plan to acquire. My brother's family will visit us in West Windsor, NJ some time in the future. So I started making my list below what experiences I would arrange for them. This list is not in any particular order. I will continue to update this list.

  1. Annual Reenactment of the Battle of Monmouth June 18th and 19th http://www.friendsofmonmouth.org/reenactment.html
  2. Take them to a Trenton court and see how a trial is conducted. We all see court trials on TV and movies, but that does not reflect reality. Depending on time availability see both a civil trial and a criminal trial at least one full day each.
  3.  Take them to Mercer County community college and let them sit through an entire class period (either my class class or another professor's class). This will give them an experience of how students interact with each other and with the professor. My feeling is they will see this interaction is quite different from what they have experienced in India.
  4. Take them to Princeton University and sit through a public talk, a classroom lecture. I am sure, it will be quite a bit different from MCCC class.
  5. Take them to a play at MCCC Kelsey theater. I took Lalitha and Krishnamurthy to the play "Unnecessary Farce." They thoroughly enjoyed it!
  6. Take them to a Broadway show in New York city.
  7. Take them to my work place. I hardly go there myself. Probably not too interesting.
  8. Take them to Pari's college. 
  9. Take them to West Windsor police station, court, senior center, post office and meet our mayor and municipal office staff and get a tour of the municipal office.
  10. Take them and introduce to my doctor Dr. Iturbides. The Capital Health Center where he has office is very impressive. http://vatour-dev.com/system/tours/capitalhealth/tourfiles/index.html
  11. Take them on Amtrak. Perhaps to Boston.
  12. Take them on NJ transit train to NYC.
  13. Take them Raghu's & Syl's place in Jersey city and Syl's parents house in Bronx.
  14. If possible, take them to meet our congressman (Bonnie Watson Coleman). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_Watson_Coleman and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey's_12th_congressional_district
  15. If possible, take them to meet our governor Christie (seeing him will be quite an unforgettable experience). But definitely visit the NJ State House http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/legislativepub/visitingstatehouse.asp.
  16. Walk over and meet a neighbor; interrupt him (Paul) when I see him mowing his lawn.
  17. Take them to Trenton farmers' Market.
  18. Take them through inner city of Trenton and Newark.
  19. Visit Swaminarayan Temple in Robbinsville (10 minutes from our home). http://www.baps.org/robbinsville
A few sight seeing places in and around:
  1. Atlantic City
  2. Hamilton, NJ "Ground for Sculpture." http://www.groundsforsculpture.org/
  3. Six Flags Great Adventure https://www.sixflags.com/greatadventure
  4. Edison Labs in West Orange https://www.nps.gov/edis/index.htm
  5. Liberty Science Center http://lsc.org/
  6. IMAX movie at AMC Hamilton 24 https://www.amctheatres.com/movie-theatres/hamilton-township/amc-hamilton-24
  7. Camden Aquarium http://www.adventureaquarium.com/
  8. Cape May
  9. Princeton Art Museum http://artmuseum.princeton.edu/
  10. Princeton walking tour
  11. A Dairy farm (may be BoBolink) http://www.cowsoutside.com/
  12. Sayen Park Botanical garden in Hamilton
  13. Old Barracks museum http://www.barracks.org/
Other sight seeing close to NJ:
Longwood Gardens https://longwoodgardens.org/?gclid=CJi1gb_1y9MCFUhLDQodl5ELlA
Washington DC
Nayagara Falls
Boston
Philadelphia

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