Vacation - Day 8

Today we got off to a late start because my mom had to see a doctor. A couple of days ago she got a bite or something on her forehead and it turned into a big bump…kind of gross. But the doctor gave her an antibiotic so hopefully she should be fine. So we left and drove down to Rhode Island, mainly because it was the only New England state we hadn’t been to yet (besides Maine, but we are going there tomorrow). I was really upset though because the weather today was a repeat of yesterday-rainy, cold, and miserable. Not cool. And of course all the natives here are like “It’s weird, usually at this time of year the weather is so nice!” Yeah, that really makes me feel better. Oh well. Anyway, so we drove down to Rhode Island. We just drove through Providence, and my sister was really excited because she used to watch the show Providence and she loved it. Then we drove down to Newport, where they have all these huge mansions. We went to one of the mansions called The Breakers which was a summer mansion for Cornelius Vanderbilt and his family.


This time it was a self-guided tour with audio headsets, and I was reminded fondly of my study abroad last year and all the headsets we used. They were even the same kind we used most places in England! Fun. So we toured the house, sorry mansion, and it was good. It was kind of ridiculous how ornate and expensive looking everything was. You could tell that not one expense had been spared. I think one of my favorite parts of the mansion was this carving over one of the doorways with these cherubs. It looked similar to many other cherub carvings, because they are so common you know, but behind them there was a steam train and both were carrying train tools. Pretty much hilarious.


After the mansion tour we drove some more along Bellevue avenue to look at more mansions. I swear, if anything is ever named Newport, Bellevue, or Belmont you can bet it is a rich place. So we saw some more mansions and then went of this street called Ocean View Drive. It was beautiful! You could see the coast for a lot of it and I wish it had been sunny so we could have gotten out and played in the ocean again. After this we went to downtown Newport and ate lunch. After we got back to the hotel that night Dad finally took us to Dunkin’ Donuts. We have been joking about going this whole trip because there are seriously Dunkin’ Donuts stores on every corner here. So we went and got some donuts. I guess they were good…but they just tasted like regular donuts to me!