Wed June 23: Block Island Adventure Day

 In which we are Road Warriors ...

Curt and Cathy are the way to start the day - they came over for a morning visit.  It is so nice to have visitors on the boat.  And isn't it great just to see, and hug people, in general?!  As an introvert I thought I was fine without people, but I am enjoying contact with everyone from loopers to family to the waitress, who patted me on the shoulder yesterday (several times - it was a bit weird.  I'm well past my sell-by date). The day was absolutely beautiful and we sat on the back deck of the boat for refreshments and a nice catch-up session. 

For lunch we headed to The Oar restaurant - our friend, Alison from Legacy, said this was a must stop for a  “Mudslide” and we are nothing but obedient.  I'm telling you - it's delicious but can kick your butt!

 

Auntie Cathy is my mother's baby sister.

Rick had to have some local oysters just to 'try them for flavor', and Curt/Cathy are also into this nasty habit, so he had some company. I enjoyed every bite of my Bacon, Lettuce, Tomato and Lobster!

Took a close up of one of the racing sails for my dad - as a life long sailor he is having a hard time picturing a black sail. 

 

A nap should have been next on the list, but instead we decided to rent mopeds and tour the island. Mudslides and mopeds, what could go wrong?!  (The kids play this game called 'rock band or bar name', where you try to decide which would best suit your word/phrase.  I'm thinking Mudslides and Mopeds might be best for a bar....?) 

The girls rode pillion (yes, it's a word, but I always associated it with knights), since both boyz have experience with “hogs” ((I could see Rick contemplating a chain attached to his wallet and a tattoo.  It's OK, I, myself, was humming the words to some of the Grease music) and we headed off to explore. By which I mean I bossed everyone around and told them where we would go.

We stopped at the lighthouse (yada yada yada - another picturesque lighthouse), rode to the Mohegan Bluffs and walked down multiple stairs to the beach (oh yes, we had to climb back up those stairs), and basically zoomed from one end of the island to the other.  Lots of fun and we only swallowed a few bugs. 

 

I need to read up on the island - it's touristy, yet wild.  Developed but with farm land. My cousin Sarah says it's her favorite place on earth.  Every year Eben Horton, a glass blowing artist, deposits 500+ glass floats on the island, starting on June 4. I could really get crazy, and spend our whole island trip insisting that everyone look for glass floats - so I tried not to think about it.  I'd still really love to find one, tho.

After mopeding without incident we decided to 'shop', but that was also without incident.  It appears that we favor food over souvenirs. We all agreed at the same time that we had hit the wall - you can only have so much fun at our age, so we said good-bye and decided not to make plans for dinner. 

As we walked back to the marina to get the dinghy we passed a supermarket and had to go in to get the 'essentials' (by which I mean cheese, salami and crackers).  It was a really nice little market but given that we were on an island it was about 3 times more expensive than a store on the mainland…

This is my fav pic of the day - I love my co-captain.

 

OMG - it's been so humid.   We are sitting on water, and the air is full of water.  It's clammy and hot, yet damp and cold.  Hard to describe, but truly AWESOME.... In fact it reminds me of a Featured Boat Name of the Day:

 

We can see on weather.com that it will start to get hotter next week (into the 80’s and even low 90’s).   I’m sure that once it is hot we will be wishing for these 70 degree days… We are looking for Goldilocks Weather.

WTH even is this - we think it is called Foil-Boarding. Why? WHY????

 

Good Night Moon.