Saturday, October 2, 2010

69. Personable

69. Personable
Definition:
(adj) pleasant in appearance and personality
Location Placed: Atlantic Cape Community College, Mays Landing, New Jersey
Date Placed: 10/2/10 11:21am



68. Amicable

68. Amicable
Definition:
(adj) characterized by friendship and good will
Location Placed: Hamilton Mall, Mays Landing, New Jersey
Date Placed: 10/2/10 10:53pm



67. Sweet

67. Sweet
Definition:
(adj) pleasing to the senses, angelic
Location Placed: Borders, Mays Landing, New Jersey
Date Placed: 10/2/10 10:45





I may or may not have gotten all excited that my paper crane (vaguely) resembles the crane on the book. Well, it was close enough looking for me to get excited. Plus, it doesn't take much for me to get excited in a book store.

66. Splendid

66. Splendid
Definition:
(adj) brilliant, glorious, excellent
Location Placed: Starbucks, Mays Landing, New Jersey
Date Placed: 10/2/10 10:33am





I did my daughterly duty today and brought my Dad to the airport. Since it's not an area I have really explored, I figured it would be a great time for a little planned getting lost time (as opposed to it being accidental and my panicking.) Definitely saw a lot of the same stores as by me, unsurprisingly. There were a couple I would like to try if I were in the area though. I would say the trip went splendidly and I only got a little lost in an unplanned manner.

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

65. Achieve

65. Achieve
Definition:
(v) accomplish or gain with effort
Location Placed: Sea Girt Lanes, Sea Girt, New Jersey
Date Placed: 9/29/10 6:39pm



60. Playful

60. Playful
Definition:
(adj) full of fun and high spirits
Location Placed: West Long Branch Library, W. Long Branch, New Jersey
Date Placed: 9/29/10 6:04pm





Crane number 60 got a bit misplaced earlier in the week. Apparently my cat and I were fighting (unbeknown to me), and she decided to defile my purse. My purse got a one way ticket to the trash can. I thought this crane had gone with it, but I came upon it yesterday in the cup holder in my car. So I decided to place it immediately to make up for the gap. Silly crane!

Friday, September 24, 2010

64. Score

64. Score
Definition:
(n) a number expressing the accomplishments of a team
Location Placed: Sea Watch Beach, Manasquan, New Jersey
Date Placed: 9/24/10 6:27pm





I'm not sure I can relate the word back to the story that I want to tell about this location. But I worked at this beach for every summer for nearly 7 years. This past summer was actually the first I didn't work down there. What a great job it was: sitting in the sun (with 50spf, thank you fair skin!), reading books, all whilst getting paid. I met a number of wonderful regular patrons that treated me wonderfully. It doesn't get much better than that. Not to mention this was the beach of my childhood: making sand sea turtles & castles, watching the fireworks on the 4th of July (American Independence Day), playing video games in the arcade (which was much larger back in the day). It was the beach the my Granny took my Dad and his siblings to when they were little. So it's a beach with a lot of history and one I'd have to call my own.

63. Enchanting

63. Enchanting
Definition:
(v) to delight, to hold spell-bound
Location Placed: Sea Girt Beach,Sea Girt, New Jersey
Date Placed: 9/24/10 6:15pm





Another of my favorite words, enchanting. It reminds me of fairy tales of princesses and their handsome princes racing off to their magical castles. But I find the beach to be pretty enchanting itself. Especially with how lovely the evening was, I probably could've sat there a while longer.

62. Win

62. Win
Definition:
(v) to succeed, to reach a desired goal
Location Placed: Maclearie Park, Belmar, New Jersey
Date Placed: 9/24/10 6:01pm





This is our recently established barbecue park. Well, the park itself isn't new, it's just new to my group. My boyfriend, friends and I have ventured here a couple times to celebrate summer holidays and the warm weather in general. It's right on the Shark River, so the views are pretty nice around sunset. To be honest though, I didn't even know the name of the park until I went to put a "point" on my crane release map. Observation skills for the win?

61. Smile

61. Smile
Definition:
(n) a facial expression conveying pleasure or amusement
Location Placed: W. Stanley Conover Pavilion, Deal, New Jersey
Date Placed: 9/24/10 5:35pm





When I was younger, my Grandparents used to pack me into their car and we'd go for drives. My favorite drive was always through Deal, on the ocean, to look at the big houses. Even back then, I loved to see all the different colored houses with their pretty landscaping. The streets leading from the beach all seemed to be tree-lined and as story-book wonderful as my little mind could imagine.

I was pleasantly surprised to find it still was the case. I've long since outgrown drives with my Grandparents, but the houses are just as majestic as I remember. The streets are still tree-lined in that old fashioned Southern looking way. Not a cookie cutter house in sight.