Trip to Rhode Island (Part one)

Dana and I just returned from visiting my folks in Rhode Island. We were there for about two and a half weeks. It was very relaxing to stay with them and not go to work (tehe!). So this post is about what we did there. If that bores you, feel free to just skim and look at the pretty pictures.

We arrived on Tuesday night and as soon as we stepped out of the airport we were hit by this wave of cool, moist, sea scented air. It was a wonderful thing. It made us very happy to smell the salty air again.

Thursday, Dana and I went with Cheryl to the Sachuest Point Park in Newport and walked around. Dana caught bugs...I read part of a book...we enjoyed looking at the pretty water and rocks.

Dana and I and my parents went together to the Harvard science museum. It was pretty much awesome. Lots of cool bones and funny things in bottles. They had a really nice display on arthropods (including crustaceans, insects and arachnids). There were some pretty amazing beetles. One had polkadots.

These are tortoise beetles

Here are the polkdot ones

and some pretty butterflies.

Besides the bugs, the museum also had some cool rocks and a really huge tortoise shell. My mom is the blury figure walking past the shell. And you can't forget the dinosaur bones.

As we went about the campus we found some pretty buildings with stained glass. Stained glass on an Ivy League campus. Go figure. But it was pretty all the same.

OK, I'm going to go ahead and post this much of our journey. Check back soon for more of the exciting adventures in Rhode Island (and Massachusetts and Connecticut).