Mystic Pizza

I traveled yesterday to Providence RI to see my friend Melody who is here with her husband Bill while he is working on a short term project in Connecticut.  They are renting a beautiful condo in Stonington Borough.  It is my first time out here (other than in a Blizzard 25 yrs ago) and it is very interesting and very pretty.  Melody is showing me some of the nice old towns around here and today we went to Mystic where Mystic Pizza was filmed.  A nice town and we had a nice lunch right near the river and bridge.  Then Bill drove us up to Watch Hill tonight after dinner.  It's nice to see the boats along the water front here and see the beautiful "cottages" along the way too.  It's still pretty quiet in those "seaside" towns but I imagine they will get pretty busy as the weather gets better.  It has been a nice adventure to see some new things!!

OK, this is the first time I've added a picture and it's pretty dark and hard to see but it is a very neat boat that we saw tonight.  I sent the picture to Larry and told him THIS is my next boat!!  :-)  It's very pretty but looks like lots of work to keeping looking so pretty!!

We had a nice weekend up in Charlevoix over the Memorial Day Weekend but we also had work to do and didn't have a boat there yet so it was kind of weird to be there with no boat.  Travis and Allison came up Sat. night and stayed until Monday and then rode home with us Monday.  

Larry and Mark Hawks took the Formula up today and then drove the Jeep back that we had left up there.  So that worked out well that there was something there for them to drive back.  So now there will be a boat there the next time we go and will be able to get out on the water again.

Is it summer yet?

I think that this weekend it will finally start to get a little warmer.  We have had a few nice days since we got back but it seems that the last week has been pretty cool.  We plan to go up to Charlevoix for the weekend so it will probably be a little cooler up there too.  Oh well.  It has been really beautiful with all the flowering trees and tulips and now the iris are starting to bloom too.  Not too much happening around here.  Ashlyn was here Sat. for quite a while and friends from the Chicago area picked up their boat in Grand Haven then came and stayed at our dock overnight before heading home Sunday on the lake.  It was really rough on Lake MI but they made it back just fine.  Tonight we went to see Prince Caspian - one of the Chronacles of Narnia - my favorite stories.  I enjoyed the movie a lot even though it was quite long.  Where is the spell check?????  Oh well, hopefully you know what I mean.

Back in Holland

The past week has been a busy one.  We left Cape Coral last Thurs. night after celebrating with Charlie and Janna Winn and friends for Charlie's birthday and drove over to Miami.  Larry had an ICPI meeting for a good part of the day so I was left to just lay by the pool and swim while I waited for him to be done with the meeting.  (I know, I know, you can't believe what a rough life I have.)  :-)  Then we had dinner with the group Friday night and then headed North Sat. morning.  We got a pretty good start, not too late but then stopped near Palm Beach to visit Jim and Caroline Campbell, our neighbors in Charlevoix.  Jim will be 90 yrs old in July and has been on dialysis for 2 or 3 years now.  He looked pretty good, considering, but they will not be coming to Charlevoix this summer so it was especially nice to see them.

We left there about 1 or so and got back on the highway.  Florida is a big state, especially when you start in Miami and head northwest!!  We stopped in Chattanooga for the night and then drove the rest of the way home on Sunday and arrived in Holland about 7:30 Sunday night.  Whew - that's a long trip!!

But we are glad to be home and so Larry is getting "caught up" in the office and then had to leave again Tues. morning, Travis picked him up in NJ on Tues. and they saw customers there and then on a little farther north then Larry was back home last night.  I've been getting the house cleaned up and the stuff unpacked that we brought back with us.  We had dinner Monday night with Jamie and the kids and Mom Hilldore then Tues. night met the Spauldings, and Mary Jo's Mom and Dad downtown for "junk food" from the "fat wagons" that are here for Tulip Time.  Other than the traffic it is a fun time to be around downtown with all the people in Dutch costumes.  There are LOTS of tulips blooming and the flowering trees seem to all be in bloom and loaded with flowers.

Melody and I went to the Holland Chorale concert last night then to Boatwerks for dinner.  Always fun to do something with her.  It was a fun "girls night out" and since both of our husbands were gone it gave us something to do as well.