Chris Christie celebrates election win in Asbury Park

Chris Christie is surrounded by his family inside Asbury Park's Convention Hall after he won a second term as governor 11/5/13.

(Andrew Mills/The Star-Ledger)

TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie and First Lady Mary Pat Christie are sending another child off to college.

The couple this afternoon left New Jersey for South Bend, Ind., where their daughter Sarah, 18, will attend the University of Notre Dame.

Mary Pat and daughter Sarah laugh as Christie addresses the New Jersey before the Republican National Convention in St. Petersburg, Florida . 8/26/12

“Like it or not, you’re going to see a lot more of me at Midway and O’Hare to make the drive to South Bend,” Christie told a crowd during a speech earlier this year to the Economic Club of Chicago, adding that his second-oldest child was accepted to Notre Dame.

“She is going to be a daughter of the Midwest,” said Christie.

Christie is expected to return to the Garden State sometime early next week.

The Christies ' oldest child, Andrew, 20, will begin his third year at Princeton University in the coming weeks.

The governor’s other children are Patrick, 14, and Bridget, 10.

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