On Sunday, June 12th, we left LAX and arrived in the wonderful world of Newark, NJ. The flight over was pretty easy, as Tiger slept for a total of 3.5 hours or so, pooped once on the plane, and even ate a good amount. Even the luggage situation (3 check-ins, 2 carry-ons, 1 large stroller, and 1 car seat) wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. Upon arriving in NJ, we were set to meet up with Yen, Keante, Angie, and Em over the next two days to embark on our East Coast trip (more to come on that later).

First impression of New Jersey…for the most part, it holds up to most of the stereotypes that you hear (I’ll let you figure out what those are). There’s definitely a lot of stuff we’ll need to adjust to. The weather is crazy with 85 degrees and thunderstorms (although for the East Coast trip, it was near perfect), the driving is insane (with roundabouts, constant toll roads, millions of highways, exiting off a freeway directly into shopping parking lot like Best Buy), you can’t pump your own gas (against the law), and when you go shopping, you’re pretty much assured to be the only Asians walking around town.

As we’re now just starting to settle into Corporate Housing, I’ll hopefully get a chance to post more pictures of Tiger in his new surroundings. He’s growing up really, really fast now, as he’s starting to crawl a bit and he’s even gotten his first tooth.

Stay tuned for more adventures (and pictures) of the Garden State…more to come soon!