a little vacation time

I had a little vacation time last week...
Visited the favorite daughter and Rhode Island.
She lives and works there and loves it.

Oh, and is looking to purchase a home there.

For the record,

a twelve hour drive to visit your daughter

is way too long. 

What's up with

raising your children to be

strong, smart, and independent,

and then they go and follow through???!!! :)

Oh, well.  
We did have a great visit.
Last time we were there,
Sweetie was on crutches, so we couldn't do a whole lot.
This time, we walked EVERYWHERE we could!
It sure is a beautiful place.
Here's a pic of "her" beach:

Lovin' all the tumbled rocks...

By the way, she's a great cook- she made us a couple of dinners that were scrumptious.
And we ate it all, of course.  Then,

she took us to a popular bakery...

check out these donuts:

Allie's (I think in the North Kingston area)
party-sized donuts.
Check out the size compared to the cupcakes!!!

No, we did not have one of those giants,

though Sweetie was tempted :)

After daughter headed back to work,

we took off to "tour" the north east countryside

and found this place to visit in Lowell, Massachusetts:

The New England Quilt Museum!!!

I spent just a little time here...
though no pics were allowed,
I did, just maybe,
drool over a few of the antique quilts.
They also have a great library and thousands of reference books.
I could've stayed much longer than I did!
This is the back of the NEQ Museum:

Notice the quilt on the building?
Also, they were getting ready for the Lowell Quilt Festival the next weekend,
so the gals at the NEQ Museum were making pole wrap quilts
and the surrounding few block area had "quilted" light posts!  Cool, huh?
While I was drooling in the Museum,
Sweetie went to the Court House and walked around, unguided:

Three floors, double stairs, marble treads,
wooden hand-rails, cast iron banisters

Beautiful!

Then he found this view from a third floor gallery:



the court room

and this view out back from the top of the stairs:

We closed the place out at 5 p.m.
and headed further North and West.

More to come tomorrow!