Thinking of giving gift cards for Christmas? Try Amazon!
November 13, 2009 by admin
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Each year, we all spend countless hours trying to figure out what the best flannel shirt Uncle Joe or for your cousin’s kids who you haven’t seen since last holiday season or perhaps that summer bar-b-q. For many, holiday shopping is a source of stress and frustration, but in recent years, many adults have shifted from traditional gifts to the exchanging of Gift Cards
Last year, we completed about 50% of our holiday shopping for relatives by giving gift cards. Toys R Us cards for the kids, Game Stop cards for the teens and assorted gift cards for the grownups. The kids and teens are easy. We know where they love to shop, but this year, we’re trying something new. We’re going to give everyone Amazon Gift Cards
We have a piece of mind this year, knowing that Aunt Jody isn’t going to be upset about the pattern on the sweater we bought a Macy’s and she doesn’t have to worry about being caught exchanging it the next day. Gift Cards from Amazon offer a unique opportunity for shoppers in that they have pretty much everything you want and they offer gift cards in many different varieties.
For long distance friends, they have mail and email options for gift card delivery and you can send them instantly or recieve them via snail mail in 3 to 7 days depending on where you live.
Visit Amazon to check out their many Amazon Gift Cards and options for taking the headache out of Holiday Shopping.
At Amazon Black Friday starts on Monday
November 13, 2009 by admin
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For most Americans, Black Friday has always been the Friday after Thanksgiving. The day large retailers such as Wal Mart, Target and K-Mart open in the early morning hours and offer amazing holiday shopping opportunities for those brave souls who trek out in the dark cold morning after Thanksgiving. The stores lure consumers in with low priced door busters hoping that after purchasing the low priced items, shoppers continue their holiday shopping at that store.
This year, Black Friday falls on November 27th, but online reailer, Amazon.com has announced on their website that Black Friday will start on Monday, November 23rd, 4 full days before the traditional brick and mortar outlets.
Hoping this year to gain a piece of the Black Friday marketshare, Amazon has aggressively stepped up efforts to promote their online event, allowing weary shoppers the ability to do all of their Holiday shopping from the comfort of their own home.
If Amazon’s “Gold Box” deals is any indication of what to expect for their week long Black Friday event we can expect savings up to 70% on many items. This week for instance, Amazon has “Gold Box
So if you’re a Black Friday shopper, be sure not to miss next week’s Amazon Black Friday sale online and beat the rush on the 27th.
Visit Amazon’s Black Friday weeklong sales website: Amazon.com Black Friday Sales Event
Things to do this weekewnd in New Jersey Oct 17-18
October 14, 2009 by admin
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| Fall Fine Art and Crafts at Brookdale Park Essex, NJ (October 17,2009) - juried fine art and craft show is happening in Essex, New Jersey! Set in a lovely county park, free to the public, this long standing show features juried professional fine artists, photographers, sculptors and craftspeople displaying and selling their unique work. Gourmet and ethnic food available. Saturday and Sunday from 10am-5pm, rain or shine.. This event will take place in Essex County on October 17,2009 at Watchung Avenue, Montclair. To find out more information about this event, please visit the Fall Fine Art and Crafts at Brookdale Park website. Be sure to tell them you found out about Fall Fine Art and Crafts at Brookdale Park on GoKidsNJ, the best place to find out what to do in New Jersey. |
| Idols in Concert Morris, NJ (October 17,2009) - Idols is happening in Morris, New Jersey! Starring Diana DeGarmo, Kimberly Caldwell and David Hernandez. See your favorite American Idols up close and personal, performing the songs that catapulted them into stardom! It’s a memorable night of solo, duet and ensemble performances. Musical direction from Idol’s Michael Orland. . This event will take place in Morris County on October 17,2009 at 100 South St. Morristown, NJ 07960. To find out more information about this event, please visit the Idols in Concert website. Be sure to tell them you found out about Idols in Concert on GoKidsNJ, the best place to find out what to do in New Jersey. |
| Spring Art Show & Sale Ocean, NJ (October 17,2009) - Spring Art is happening in Ocean, New Jersey! Enjoy beautiful artwork by over 80 artists from the tri-state area. Photography, water color, oil, acrylic, collages and more. All pieces available for sale. Talented high school artists will also be displaying their work. . This event will take place in Ocean County on October 17,2009 at 4700 Long Beach Blvd. Long Beach Township, NJ 08008. To find out more information about this event, please visit the Spring Art Show & Sale website. Be sure to tell them you found out about Spring Art Show & Sale on GoKidsNJ, the best place to find out what to do in New Jersey. |
| Boo At The Zoo Ocean, NJ (October 17,2009) - Scooby Doo and the Gang visit Insectropolis is happening in Ocean, New Jersey! Indoor Halloween family fun. 5pm-8pm. The Scooby Doo Gang visits the Bug Museum for Halloween. While on a tour, they discover that the sacred gold beetle is missing. Where is it and who took it? Help uncover clues as you explore our spooky exhibits with only a flashlight. Get a prize when you solve the case. Fun for all ages. Advance tickets are recommended. Indoor Halloween family fun. 5pm-8pm. The Scooby Doo Gang visits Insectropolis for Halloween. Advance tickets are recommended.. This event will take place in Ocean County on October 17,2009 at Insectropolis, The Bugseum of New Jersey. To find out more information about this event, please visit the Boo At The Zoo website. Be sure to tell them you found out about Boo At The Zoo on GoKidsNJ, the best place to find out what to do in New Jersey. |
| Fall Farm Festival None, NJ (October 17,2009) - Sullivan Farm is happening in None, New Jersey! Enjoy a day at the farm with your family: animals, children’s activities, hayrides, pick your own pumpkins, hay maze, and more. Lunch is available. Admission is free.. This event will take place in None County on October 17,2009 at Sullivan Farm 140 Park Lane, New MIlford, CT 06776. To find out more information about this event, please visit the Fall Farm Festival website. Be sure to tell them you found out about Fall Farm Festival on GoKidsNJ, the best place to find out what to do in New Jersey. |
Marching Band Tournament: 38th Annual Pageant of Champions
Union, NJ (October 18,2009) - Family friendly entertainment for all ages is happening in Union, New Jersey! Colorful costumes, rousing music and intricate maneuvers as bands vie for championship in the Tournament of Bands chapter X. Food and souvenirs on sale. General parking at Bell Labs, disabled parking near stadium. $8 ($6 seniors/kids). This event will take place in Union County on October 18,2009 at Governor Livingston High School, 175 Watchung Blvd, Berkeley Heights, NJ 07922. To find out more information about this event, please visit the Marching Band Tournament: 38th Annual Pageant of Champions website. Be sure to tell them you found out about Marching Band Tournament: 38th Annual Pageant of Champions on GoKidsNJ, the best place to find out what to do in New Jersey.
Faces of Fright Fest I
October 14, 2009 by admin
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Jackson, NJ - This weekend, Six Flags Great Adventure kicked off it’s annual Fright Fest. Fright Fest is a month long Halloween event where the park, located in Jackson Township, New Jersey is transformed into one of the biggest Halloween parties on the East Coast.
People travel each October from around the Mid Atlantic region seeking out frightful fun for the whole family. Check back regularly for updates and news from this year’s Fright Fest at Great Adventure.
Today, we’re looking at the faces of Fright Fest, some of the costume designs and makeup work from this year’s event.
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Terror unleashed at Six Flags
October 14, 2009 by admin
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Jackson, NJ – This past weekend, the Awakening rang in the 2009 Fright Fest at Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey. At 6pm each night this month, Great Adventure rises from the dead as the 18th annual Fright Fest has begun.
The party starts with the Awakening of Dr. Fright, the Master of Ceremony and host of the largest Halloween party in the area. As the funeral procession makes its way through the park, Dr. Fright is awakened on the stage at the Big Wheel once again this year. Prior to 2008, the awakening took place at the bloody fountain.
The entire theme park is decorated, although not as lavishly as in previous years and transformed into an all-night haunting ground where ghouls, zombies, freaks and undead roam the park chasing guests and scaring the life out of them.
Along with the roaming actors, three sections have been converted into haunted midways including the Lakeside Graveyard and the Circus Psycho, where escaped mental patients have been set free in the boardwalk section of the park.
The main attraction at Fright Fest is Dead Man’s Party, celebrating it’s 10th year of production. The musical zombie laden stage show has grown to become an attraction in itself and draws freaks and fiends from the entire northeast United States for performances. The show has built up a huge fan following over the years that has reached a near cult status.
New in 2009 is a Michael Jackson tribute show at the bloody fountain called The Ghoulmaster’s Ghosts. The Dolphin Discovery’s Voyage to Voodoo Island is also a crowd favorite as the park’s aquatic residents put on a frighteningly good show.
There’s lots to do and see at Fright Fest each night at Great Adventure and if you have younger children, don’t worry, there are plenty of safe havens for them and park staff issues ghoul repellent whistles which will protect them from the most evil demons in the park.
Check back regularly for updates on this year’s Fright Fest including video, reviews, photos and helpful guides to help you get through another ghoulish fest at Great Adventure. Fright Fest runs until November 1st this year.
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Creep Critters lurk at Six Flags Great Adventure
October 14, 2009 by admin
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Jackson, NJ – For many, Fright Fest begins each night at 6:00 with the Awakening when the park transforms into a dark and creepy abode for the undead, the psychos and the strange, but for kids, Fright Fest is an all day ticket. At night, the main attraction of course is Dead Man’s Party and the Terror Trails, but by day, Professor Slithers and his not so creepy critters are the main attraction for the kids in one of Great Adventure’s most popular Fright Fest shows for the wee ones.
Professor Slithers starts each show in the hopes of scaring the wits out of children with creepy critters such as dragons, spikey creatures and dangerous snakes. Unfortunately for the dimwitted professor, his witch sidekick debunks his myths and cures him of his phobias by explaining to him and the children that the while they may sound creepy and dangerous, none of the critters pose any threat to people.
This year’s show features a critter which has hundreds of spikes that can shoot out at predators which the professor assures himself that he finally has a creepy critter, but it’s just a hedgehog. The addition of the hedgehog and the firing of the rabbit of years past added a fresh new “nintendo generation” take on things for children who thought hedgehogs were blue with spiked hair, walked on two feet and collected rings.
Creepy critters is one of the more educational, interactive and engaging shows for children at Fright Fest. At one point the professor invites the children on stage to dance. If you’re going to Great Adventure with kids during the day, make sure to treat them to at least one showing of Professor Slithers’ Creepy Critters.
Fright Fest: Voyage to Voodoo Island
October 14, 2009 by admin
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Jackson, NJ - Jackson Township, New Jersey is the state’s premier Halloween hot spot each October, attracting tens of thousands of people daily to Six Flags Great Adventure for Fright Fest. One of the highlight attractions at Great Adventure has always been the Dolphin Shows at Fort Independence. This year, Davy Bones and his crew have returned for another Voyage to Voodoo Island.
The show runs nightly during Fright Fest and details the voyages of the bumbling crew as they fall under the spell of the witches’ voodoo and the captain is transformed into a California sea lion. The enchanting bottlenose dolphins perform their feats and in the end, all is returned to normal. The entire show runs about thirty minutes and is a special Halloween themed performance of magical mayhem and hilarious hijinks.
If you want to see the show, show up five to ten minutes prior to the printed start time as Great Adventure has always promptly closed the gates once the show starts for all dolphin shows with no exceptions and you don’t want to tote crying tots who missed the dolphins around the park the rest of the night!
The Faces of Six Flags Fright Fest II
October 14, 2009 by admin
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Jackson, NJ – Each year at Fright Fest, dozens of actors don makeup and costumes to give park goers chills to go along with their theme park thrills. The driving force behind the creepy is a special makeup effects company called Anatomy FX, located on the New Jersey shore. Anatomy FX owner Tony Mandile has served as the makeup and FX supervisor for Six Flags Great Adventure’s “FRIGHT FEST” attraction in New Jersey since 1999, our town’s annual Halloween celebration requiring over one hundred actors in full makeup on a nightly basis.
Check out some more of Anatomy FX’s work at this year’s Fright Fest.
Great Adventure’s Freak Show
October 14, 2009 by admin
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Jackson, NJ - If you’re looking for a good freak show in Jackson Township, you have many options in 2009. First, you can head to town hall every other Tuesday night as the 2009 mayoral election race heats up. This trainwreck has been off the tracks for quite some time, but there’s even more freakish events going on in town. No, not at the upcoming candidate debates, but you’re sure to see a good freak show there too.
What I’m talking about is Professor Zombini’s Freak Show, a troupe of sideshow freaks performing amazing feats of oddity straight from Coney Island in the Circus Psycho (boardwalk) section of the theme park during the nightly Fright Fest attraction.
Professor Zombini stars the show with some good old firebreathing that will make the fiery rhetoric of local politicians seem like baby babble. If you thought you were something in high school for putting that cigarrette out on your tongue, you’re no match for Zombini’s fireeating abilities.
He is followed up by sword swallowing and yes, she did double deep throat 24 inches of hard steel! No, I didn’t get her number!
One of my highlights on the night was this poor chap who got his tongue caught in the mouse trap which was the inspiration for the whole Jackson Politics theme. It would be nice to see some of the vocal locals have to go through this for the lies they spread and the huge amounts of mudsligging going on in town this year.
So if you’re tired of the same old political freak show in Jackson, head on out to Great Adventure to see a not-so-different freak show of a not-so-different nature.
Firefighters to be honored at Great Adventure
October 14, 2009 by admin
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Friday, October 16 and Saturday, October 17, Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey will host “Finest and Bravest Appreciation Days” and will offer special discounted tickets to firefighters, police officers and their family and friends. This comes during Six Flag’s 18th annual Fright Fest, “The Northeast’s Largest Halloween Party”.
Special discounted tickets for theme park admission are available for firefighters and police officers by visiting http://www.sixflags.com/greatadventure with promo code fbga09 and tickets for this event must be purchased in advance.
In recent years, Great Adventure, which has 13 roller coasters and 75 other rides and attractions, has sought to give back to the first responders who protect our communities. These first responder days at Six Flags Great Adventure are meant to provide the people who keep our communities safe the opportunity to spend some time with family and friends.
Six Flags Great Adventure Jackson, New Jersey is located on Route 537 off of I-95 exit 16A.
Prior to 6 p.m. guests at the park can enjoy Halloween family-themed activities which include Kidz Scary-oke, Trick or Treat Trail, Professor Slither’s Creepy Critters, Mr. Six Spook-Tacular Street Party and more. During the evening hours, Six Flags hosts “Chills by Night” which features haunted walkthrough attractions, Halloween-themed shows, thrill rides and more.
Operating hours for the park on “Finest and Bravest Appreciation Days”:
Friday, October 16 – 5pm-11pm
Saturday, October 17 – 10:30am- 11pm.