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New Jersey leisure guide news - Issue #025
May 01, 2010

May 1, 2010

Welcome to The New Jersey Leisure Guide Times!

In this newsletter we'll bring you a capsule of popular upcoming leisure events and information about New Jersey.

This Edition's Contents...

  • Popular May Events and Happenings
  • This Month's Featured Fine Dining Restaurant

Popular May Events and Happenings
May in New Jersey brings us much warmer weather and the unofficial beginning of the summer season on Memorial Day. It also includes a special day for mom's and one of the busiest restaurant days of the year.

Here is a capsule of some of the popular events that are happening in May.


Ocean Port Strawberry Fair
May 26 - 30, 2010
Monmouth Park Race Track parking area
This major family festival is an official State of New Jersey Department of Agricultural event. The fair provides educational displays and programs with rides, games, attractions and delicious food, including the Lions' famous Strawberry Shortcake.


Wildwood International Kite Festival
May 28-31, 2010
On the Beach at Rio Grande Avenue, Wildwood and inside the Wildwoods Convention Center.
America's largest kite festival, featuring world-renowned kite builders and competitors, kite making workshops and exhibits, and children's activities.


Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus 'Barnum's Funundrum!'
May 13 - 23, 2010
Sun National Bank Center
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey is roaring into town with Barnum's Funundrum! A celebration of P.T. Barnum so big, it is an event of 200 years in the making! From the moment that you arrive, the momentum explodes as The Greatest Show On Earth comes to life in a way that can only be inspired by the greatest showman that ever lived.

Seaside Music Festival
May 20 - 22, 2010
Seaside Heights NJ
This FREE to attend 3-day music festival will give bands, fans, families & music industry pros the chance to Start Summer Sooner in Seaside Heights with live performances and events!


Take a Mother's Day Cruise
Spirit Cruises

Lincoln Harbor Marina
1500 Harbor Boulevard
Weehawken, NJ
866.483.3866
Start a new tradition this year — celebrate Mom in style, with a special day that’s all about her. Show her you really care by bringing the whole family together aboard an Entertainment Cruises’ Mother’s Day lunch or dinner cruise. Enjoy sumptuous buffets, live entertainment and dancing while you take in breath-taking views of the New York City skyline through huge panoramic windows and vast outdoor viewing decks.


Everything Jersey City Festival
Saturday, May 15, 2010

Central Avenue
Jersey City
(201) 656-1366
Free admission
Hundreds of exhibitor booths featuring festival food, arts, crafts, novelties and local businesses and community organizations with a fresh entertainment lineup featuring "Queen of Freestyle" Judy Torres and many more artists from Jersey City and beyond more kid's rides and attractions ...and another big dose of the positive community spirit!


For other top New Jersey Attractions & Things to do in May visit:

Things to do
Events
Mother's Day
Memorial Day


This Month's Featured Fine Dining Restaurant

For a special, elegant Mother's Day brunch, Try the
The Manor Restaurant

West Orange
This is a destination restaurant for special family occasions. A NJ landmark restaurant set in an elegant country house with acres of magnificent gardens with fine buffet dining.
Review and rating.


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