... Massachusetts/Rhode Island

After 7 months we finally got a car again in May so we were anxious to take advantage of a car and a summer break from school to see a few parts of New England. So we found a surprisingly cheap but decent place to stay on Cape Cod, MA. And we loved it! Neither of us had ever been to Cape Cod, and we had each only been to Boston once before. We enjoyed beautiful scenery, huge empty beaches, perfect weather, and attending the Boston temple: It was so relaxing and so much fun! Oh yeah, while we were there I HAD to have a lobster dinner. There were tons of little shacks lining the roads advertising their lobster and seafood. We went to a restaurant on the harbor in Hyannis. For some reason, though, when I ordered the lobster I only had a lobster tail in mind. You know, the way most people eat it... in the west anyway. Well out here the tail is just the beginning. They serve the tail, the head, and everything in between. Oops! What I ate was good, but what I saw inside turned me away from ordering another one for a while.

Even more than Cape Cod, though, we loved the day we spent in Newport, RI on our way home! Newport is an old, beautifully maintained, and very wealthy victorian town set on really pretty, rugged coastline (that is, rugged on East Coast standards). While walking around such enormous mansions Shannon was sure we had walked into the setting of a Jane Austin book. Rhode Island is awesome! And since it's only 3hrs or so from home we'll be back!