Lobster Rolls - yum

Jo had a business trip in Boston so we decided to visit our old friends and haunts in Connecticut and make a long weekend of it.  While she slaved away inside a cold, windowless conference room I traipsed around Boston visiting some new sites.  We stayed in the Seaport to the south of downtown Boston so I visited Fort Independence and Dorchester Heights.  I had never been to either before and it was fun learning about some new aspects of our American history.  Unfortunately, neither we open to tours but I did find a very helpful person at Fort Independence who took the time to explain about the fort and answer my questions. 

Then it was off on I-95 through Rhode Island to see Southeastern Connecticut again.  It has been a few years since our last visit and we were pleased to see not too much had changed.  Our friends, Sheri and Bruno graciously put us up for our stay and planned a perfect itinerary with time with friends, some hiking, playing with their new Golden Doodle, Zeeland, and naturally a stop at the Granite Theater.

We toured our old neighborhood and were happy to see our old house was still standing and the woods pretty much unchanged.  We then tried to visitt all of our favorite places to eat food that really isn't all that good for you, but sure is fun to eat.  We started with hitting Fred's Shanty on the Thames river for fried clam strips and milk shakes.  We enjoyed looking across the river at the Pfizer site where we spent a lot of time.  The next stop in our dining tour was Clyde's for freshly made cider donuts along with fresh pressed apple cider.  Certainly hit the spot, even if the bees were a bit annoying.  We followed that up with a visit to Captain Scott's which, in our humble opinion, has the best lobster rolls in the area (and yes we ate three of them between the two of us - we did opt not to get onion rings so we should get some credit for thinking about our waistlines).

On Saturday, after our morning hike with Sheri and Bruno we met up for lunch with many of our good friends from our CT days.  It was fun finding out about all the changes in people's lives, including retirements, grandchildren, new jobs and new hobbies.  Always amazing how fast it can feel like you never left.  Later that day after touring the murals in Westerly we hit the Granite Theater (we were actually on time for once, bit unusual for the four of us) to see Arsenic and Old Lace.  A great production and reminded us how much community theater is fun to watch.

All too soon, it was time to head to the Providence airport for our trip home - full of good food, new memories, birthday cake, and missing our time and friends from CT.