Home Again - Well Amost

I am actually in Rocky for the weekend. My time in Woonsocket was good, the weather was warm, which meant the trees were not turning colour, but still. Last weekend I went on a bit of a exploring trip. Saturday, to drive around the countryside. I ended up at historic Jamestown (that is what the sign said) and looked around there for a bit. I stopped at a little restaurant, and had some clam chowder, sitting on their deck, watching the water, and just enjoying the day. After I went back to the hotel, I met some friends and we went out for dinner, and then into Providence to Water Fire. That was fun, what they do is have fires set up all along the river, with real wood, and then pipe in music. There are boats that move all up and down the river, with loads of wood, and they stoke the fire when it seems to be dying down. Waterfire starts in July, so the fires in September and October are not as busy, and you can close to enough on the bridges and pathways, to come home smelling like you had been camping.

Sunday morning up early, and I went with another IBMer Vanessa to Martha's Vineyard. We drove to a place called Quonset, where the fast ferry docks. It is a walk on ferry, which took us to Oak Bluffs, a town on the island. From there we took a tour around the island, stopping in Edgartown, which is another town. From Edgartown you can see the island of Chappaquidick, and there is a tiny ferry that only holds about 3 cars that goes back and forth. The population of Martha's Vineyard is about 18 to 20 thousand in the off season, and in the season it explodes to 125 thousand, crazy. We did not see any famous people, but did see the house Billy Joel used to own when he was married to Christie Brinkley. Oak Bluffs has some very cool Victorian houses that are very colourful and built on the site of where they used to have a huge church camp.

On Wednesday night I went out for supper with Vanessa and Emily, and had a stuffie (which is a quahog clam, chopped up and added to a mixture of bread, and spices and cooked in the oven, served on the quahog shell, mmm mmm good) and scrod (the old peoples fish) at a local pub. I love having fresh fish and seafood.

Trip home was uneventful, caught the wee plane out of Providence (pilot was not sick so no cancellations) then onto the bigger plane, and home in my own bed by 2:30 am Friday morning. Slept in and then had lunch, picked up the car and Sam came over and we made our way to Rocky. Looking forward to Turkey today, along with all the trimmimgs.