Short Trip Report

[deelaundry]

Had a great time last week toodling around New Jersey with hithah on our PPTH/Kal Penn/RSL tour of looking at things and imagining what went/goes/will go on there. *\o/*

Yes, that is my favorite kind of touring around, and no, I don't expect anyone else to agree with me how AWESOME it is. Except hithah, of course.

We stayed at a hotel that's across from the Forrestal Campus of Princeton University, which is undoubtedly where PPTH is located in House-land (in spite of the building that has the PPTH exterior being on the main campus in real life). Look, they're even building a new extension:


The sign says "University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro."

On Day 1 and Day 2, I graciously let Hithah take the pictures (OK, really I forgot my camera), but on Day 3 Hithah had left for the airport already, so I got behind the lens for a particularly self-indulgent photoshoot.

Marquand Park! Four years ago, I set my very first Housefic in this locale based solely on internet research. Now here it was in person... and it was lovely.



Oh, a gorgeous park. If you're in the area, stop by for a picnic, or to teach your kid to ride a bike, or even just for a nice walk.



Here's a sunny part of the park you could get married in:


Or a shady glen also appropriate for that:


With a tree carved by doting lovers over the years:


There are also paths through secluded wooded areas. No public restrooms (of the kind, ehem, "used" by House & Wilson in my fic), but very peaceful all the same.

Comments

[hibernia1.livejournal.com]

*bounces*

This entry got me all excited and happy w00t!!! Thanks!!

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

I wish you could have been there with us. The weather was very nice, and it was a fun and relaxing time.

[hibernia1.livejournal.com]

Aw, thanks dear. I wish so, too... I'm sure we would have had a brilliant time.

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

That is such a beautiful park!

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

It's gorgeous! There was a small playground as well, and enough room so that you could be near the playground or not, as you pleased. It didn't hurt that the weather was beautiful when I was there.

I took a couple of pictures of interesting trees, too, but figured this post was long enough.

[warmdarkwoman.livejournal.com]

That park looks like it could be the park that House escaped too in "One Day, One Room."

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

It does, doesn't it? Except... did that park have a river next to it? This one doesn't have any water features in it (pond, creek, etc.).

We drove by "Cameron's river" too. That was fun.

[moose-mcmoose.livejournal.com]

What a delightful looking place. The park looks stunning.

*looks wistfully at the cloudy, grey sky outside* Sigh. The sun seems to be taking a break from it's duties over here.

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

It was beautiful. The weather being nice certainly helped. This has been a long, hot, humid summer for us on the US East Coast so far, but the day I was at Marquand Park was perfect.

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to hear you two enjoyed yourselves! Princeton's such a nice place to visit.

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

It was very fun! We spent a lot of our time outside Princeton, but did get to see the art museum and have a student-led tour.

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

Did you see the Wilson pool? Or Triumph?

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

We saw the Wilson pool, which is quite obviously the location in House!land where House splashed in the fountain in the first ep of S3. Heh.

[hwshipper.livejournal.com]

How exciting to visit somewhere you'd written about! It looks lush and beautiful.

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

It was exciting! Hee!

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

Oh, the park is so beautiful! I love cool, green, shady places like that.

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

It was really wonderful -- very peaceful with beautiful trees.

[remydoodle.livejournal.com]

You were lucky, the last few days have been very nice.
Turner construction is also building a hospital in Voorhees, NJ. I worked there for a couple of weeks and I'm not sure if I mentioned it here but the rooms had glass doors like the PPTH.
I wonder if the new Princeton Plainsboro hospital will have glass rooms too.

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

I don't think I knew that you'd worked on a PPTH-esque hospital. Awesome!

I was lucky about the weather; this summer has been such a scorcher but that day was great.

[blackmare.livejournal.com]

This post is just all kinds of smile-inducing, hon. Thanks.

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

Glad you liked : )

[l-eremita.livejournal.com]

I like how your mind works, Dee! Just as I used to love looking at the plans that you would post for the various houses that House and Wilson could live in together :-) It's funny, I love imagining the domestic life of my favourite fictional characters.

I remember that first story like it was *looks back in time dreamily* yesterday! You really need to someday write more in that 'verse :-)

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

*\o/*

So fun. Eeee!

I'm not sure what else I could write in the 'verse. I've got proposal, registry, bachelor party, ceremony, honeymoon, and parents come to visit. This isn't a 'verse where they have kids, so that's out. Hm.

[l-eremita.livejournal.com]

I remember all of those EXCEPT honeymoon! How did I miss that?!?!

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

I think you were on an LJ-holiday at the time. It's called On the Way (http://deelaundry.livejournal.com/274031.html).

[srsly-yes.livejournal.com]

What a gorgeous park. Thanks for sharing the pics. Mind posting the link to that first fic? I'd love to read it.

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

You're welcome for the pics -- it was too pretty not to share.

The fic is kind of silly, but I liked it enough to write three prequels and two sequels. : )

That Time Cameron Had Mono (http://deelaundry.livejournal.com/946.html), NC-17, fluff, 7/06

Prequels:
Proposing version 1 (http://deelaundry.livejournal.com/4035.html), G, dialogue only, 7/06
The Registry (http://deelaundry.livejournal.com/2189.html), PG, dialogue only, 7/06
Bachelor Party (http://deelaundry.livejournal.com/40559.html), R, ficlet, 3/07

Sequels:
On the Way (http://deelaundry.livejournal.com/176513.html), R, 12/08
Domestic (http://deelaundry.livejournal.com/33286.html), PG-13, 2/07

[srsly-yes.livejournal.com]

I'm going to have a good time reading these. Thank you.

[daasgrrl.livejournal.com]

Hee! That must be kind of surreal, having written that fic (mmm) based only on research and finally seeing it.

and no, I don't expect anyone else to agree with me how AWESOME it is.

Yes, I just toured Washington DC because it was the US capital. Nothing to do with the FBI building, the war memorials, Crystal City or indeed anything to do with X-Files. Not at all *g*

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

It wasn't surreal to see it -- more like, oh, phew, I didn't mess it up. :D

There's a coffee shop in Baltimore that used to get way more traffic than any other, simply because it's across from the building used to shoot exteriors for the show Homicide.

[vitawash24.livejournal.com]

Hee. I totally squeed the last time I was in the Princeton area and saw that sign for the future hospital. :)

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

Hee, considering I squee when I just see "Wilson" written anywhere, you can imagine my glee. :D It'd be fun if they worked the expansion into the show...

[xaipw.livejournal.com]

So, tell me, did you carve GH + JW into that tree?

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

I was so tempted! But I didn't have a knife with me : (

[taiga13.livejournal.com]

Pretty!

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

It was so green and nice. : )

[daisylily.livejournal.com]

That's pretty much how I'd imagined it - it looks like a wonderful park.

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

It was very, very pleasant. (And I am very, very late writing you back.) Wish you could've been there.

[perspi.livejournal.com]

*g*

That is happy-making, sweets.

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

\o/

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

how cool!

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

It was fun to see :D