After getting back from New York and Vermont, we had just a few days in Rhode Island before we had to go home.
Rosanne got a day off of work for Columbus Day and came with us to Massachusetts. Dana really wanted to see some cranberry bogs, so he used Google Earth images to locate where some were. We lucked out and found one that was in the process of a wet harvest. That is where they fill the bog with water and skim the berries off the surface. The farmers were nice enough to let us watch. It was really neat seeing the berries on the water.
We then hiked on the Ponkapoag Bog Walk. It was fun to walk from the parking lot by the freeway into the quiet of the woods and then on to a little board walk out to the Ponkapoag Pond. The trees and plants were very nice.
One of the big reasons Dana wanted to go here was to find the carnivorous plants that grow there. We all had fun searching the mossy mounds among the trees to find these pitcher plants.
The carnivorous sundews were much harder to spot. Thanks to some internet searching on our phones we found out more about how small they were: very small. On the left is a sundew plant, on the right is Dana’s camera taking the picture (can you see the sundew?).
We had dinner at Friendly’s and Magnus really liked his ice cream. So much that he wouldn’t eat it till I took a picture of him with it.
We ended the day with a visit to the Boston LDS Temple, where we got married 7 years ago.
We packed most of the next day, but we did take some time to go to the beach. It ended up being one of the nicest days at a beach we have had and we wish we had had more time.
We also went along Ocean Drive in Newport and stopped at Brenton Point, a place Dana really loves.
Before heading to the airport the next day, Ruth took Dana to see the Breakers, one of the mansions in Newport. It was Dana’s first visit in a mansion and it reminded him a lot of the castles in Europe.
We also liked this old beech tree on the grounds:
Grandma Rose took us to the airport and it was time to say “good-bye.” We are so glad we could spend time in New England with everyone. Thank you for letting us stay with you Grandma and Grandpa!
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