Thank you God, for placing me by the Sea!

This is Misquamicut Beach in Rhode Island

I LOVE the sea

It's good for my soul to live near the ocean.

I'm pretty sure my husband and son feel the same way.

After moving from Colorado, last year

every time we go to the beach

We feel so grateful

that we live here.

It's our favorite part about New England.

I find it so awesome

that we can drive to the beach anytime we need an ocean fix!


Thank you God, for placing us here!

Finally Lobster! Thanks to 'Bayou at the Beach'

After we reached Rhode Island we really wanted to try some lobster.
After all, when in New England...
So we came across the Bayou at the Beach in Misquamicut.

You know it's got to be good if there is a pirate flag out front!

Pirate flag...Bayou... I'm getting Jimmy Buffet vibes!
And you know, I LOVE Jimmy Buffet!

It was here we became official, and tried not only the New England Lobster Roll,

but also the Clam Fitters,

the Clam Chowder or should I say "Chowdah"

and the New England, Maine Lobster served over Steamers.
I can now say we tried it ALL and it was delicious.
I know it seems a bit extreme to try them all, but again, when in New England!

OH! and during dinner, guess what song played!
"Trying to reason with hurricane season"
Jimmy AND Lobster, does it get any better?

Thank you Bayou at the Beach we truly enjoyed it!

Next time were at Misquamicut we will come see you again!

Onward, to Rhode Island

After we left Niantic we decided to go to the beach. We started heading east along the coast and before we knew it we were in Rhode Island.

Hey, the ocean girl enters the ocean state!

Everything we saw looked like it should be on a post card.

Look a lobster!

I took this picture for my son and Red Socks fans everywhere!

Rhode Island is gorgeous.

I love it here! How can you go wrong in the ocean state?

Niantic Lobster Fest

Saturday we headed down to Niantic for the Lobster Fest.

I have never been to a Lobster Fest before so I was kind of excited. However we had a late breakfast so we were not really hungry when we arrived in Niantic.

So instead of eating lobster we decided to walk around the festival.

There were many arts and craft booths that were fun to look through.
Of course this is the one that caught Sawyer's eye.

It was a tough choice deciding which toy he wanted.
I really liked the spider man walkie-talkies, I thought for sure they were the ones that would come home with us.

But then, Sawyer spotted this guy.

And he knew at once,

THIS was the toy he wanted,
for INFINITY AND BEYOND!!! (sorry, I couldn't help myself).

After we found Buzz we walked around town and saw the sights.

There were many cool things to see in Niantic, I found a car I liked.

I also fell in love with this house.

And the flowers around town

were so gorgeous,

I had to take pictures.

Crescent Lake

After our visit to Los Mariachis, we were in need of some exercise. So we found a new lake to explore, Crescent Lake in Meriden Connecticut.

Sawyer's always ready for a hike.

The trees on the west side of the lake are so evenly spaced.

They are perfectly spaced, it's almost as if someone planted them like this.

Is it just me or do these trunks look like giant bird feet?

Towards the north side of the lake the path gets a little rockier.

It was a long hike to the north side,

But it was worth it.

We had to stop and check out the fish.

Then on the east side it gets really lush.

Hey, someone left their heart behind.

It was a long hike so we had to make some stops, and skip stones.

Finally we made it back to the place we started.

Um, what sign?

I liked this sign better.