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Last week was vacation to visit family in Rhode Island. We stay right at the beach which is always nice especially for my husband who grew up there and misses the sound of waves and the smell of salt air. As far as beach weather it wasn’t the best but we did get two “decent” days, the rest were a bit cold and rainy. We did take lots of walks especially down to what we call "crab cove."
 Crab Cove   Found a starfish (alive) 
found a ray
One of the things we always do is have steamers and lobster. They go pick them right from the fishing boats down the road in Gailee which is fun for the kids. Plus it’s a whole lot cheaper that way then buying them imported to MI! Taylor especially likes Lobster and ate four that day (not all at once, he just kept eating leftovers!) Steamers are kind of a Rhode Island thing. They are actually cohogs which are similar to clams of mussels. I don’t like mussels but I like cohogs as long as you get the sand out.
eating steamers
 My sister-in-law recently got married and her husband is from Lebanon, he’d never had steamers. He had to try them but it took him till we were down to one left to get up the nerve. Turns out, he likes them but they were gone by the time he figured that out.
The other thing that always seems to be a problem for us is the early sun in Rhode Island. We’re on the West end of the Eastern time zone so it doesn’t get light quite so early. Out there we’re up by 5:30 a.m. thanks to the sun. Most mornings it makes for a nice quiet walk on the beach (except half the days when it rained) and a good long quiet time before all the kids are up!
We did drive to Boston one day but I’ll save that for another blog. I’ve got a lot of pictures from the Freedom Trail that I’ll post. It was defiantly worth it but it takes WAY longer (at least for a homeschool family) then any review I’d read before we went!
It’s good to be home…even if only for a few days. We leave for our last convention soon…so if you’re going to CHEO, look me up!
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