Rhode Island State of Mind

My first full weekend in Connecticut was a success. Sunday was our first adventure out and about. My roomies and I decided to go wreak a little havoc across the border. We got up and on the road by 11 am and made it to Providence at noon. I was hungry as we had skipped breakfast that morning, so we decided to hit up Joe's Bar and Grill for brunch before we got started. It was a b-e-a-utiful day outside, so we decided to sit outdoors and enjoy the sites and weather. Brunch was dee-lish and we were now ready to start our adventures.

We decided to walk down by the river for a while and take some pictures of the city.

For being a large city, Providence has a small town feel. You don't get the loud sounds that a typical large city produces (it was quite peaceful actually), which in my book is fantastic! After walking down by the river, we decided to split up for a bit. Brittany and I wanted to see the Culinary Arts Museum and Mahalia wanted to get her shopping on. I looked up on my phone how to walk to the museum, and found that it was quite close. So Brittany and I started our trek to what we thought was the museum. What we soon realized, after walking uphill for a mile, was we were on Brown's campus, not the culinary schools. Oops. We did some recalculating and found that the museum was actually about 4 miles away from where we now stood. We hiked, downhill this time :), back to the car and drove to the museum.

The museum was an awesome find (especially if you are a foodie), and well worth my bad directions. It only cost $7 and took about 45 minutes to navigate through the entire museum. We were able to take quite a few photos here as well, which we were both pleased about. We had some fun, and I even got my picture taken with Emeril, huge bottles of Tabasco, and a prize winning cow.

After we were done at the museum, we met back up with Mahalia and walked around some more. We made sure to hit up the Statehouse and take some pictures here as well. We were all pretty zonked at this point, so we headed back to Connecticut. We got back home, looked over our pics from the day, and checked out our sunburns that were all making their presences now known. Funny how the sunburns at the end of the day make you remember that you didn't put sunblock on that day.

Monday was a chill day for us. We got up and realized our sunburns, still not figments of our imagination, were still making us feel tired and like our skin had been shrunk and heated. We went to breakfast, and then headed back to campus. Brittany and I decided to walk around and take pictures of the campus. When we headed back, we took some time to get some of our work done. We all went out again for dinner and then called it a night. Back to work in the morning.