And to wrap up, here’s how our super fun-filled labor day weekend went:
Sarah came in to Providence on Friday night, only about twenty minutes late, on an otherwise uneventful flight, save for the sticky floor under her feet. Once we got her shoes all cleaned off, we headed back to Mom’s, talked a little bit, did some catching up, and then got some sleep.
Saturday was our Woodstock Fair day. We headed down there with Mom, using the back-roads to avoid the traffic, and we snuck in the back entrance to avoid the huge crazy parking lot and crossing the super-busy street. We wandered the fair in a sort of aimless fashion for a while… got a cool gift at a craft tent for some friends of ours who are having a baby soon. We also picked up some cool books at half price… or less … and a lot of yummy food. They had excellent turkey legs and while Mom and I shared blooming onion Sarah and I shared a turkey leg. I got a whole meal out of it. We had some Del’s lemonade, a local treat I had forgotten about. We also got an awesome orange cream smoothie and a delicious cinnamon bun, just before we left. We heard some of the Bangles, but there were no seats left to sit and actually watch. Afterwards, we collapsed into bed and slept most of the afternoon and evening away.
Sunday morning, we headed out to Plymouth and had some breakfast at my Aunt Elizabeth’s house with cousin Mark, Karen and Brian, sister and brother in law, and their kids Jake and Cam. After some yummy waffles and such, we all headed over to King Richard’s Faire. It was a charming little set-up with a lot more shade and trees than the Bristol fair up in Kenosha. It was very similar to that fair, though somewhat lacking in vendors and variety in crafts and wares in comparison. They did have a lot of nice pottery, though, and Sarah and I picked up a couple cool mugs with fish on them. Mark bought one of those hanging Sky Chairs and everyone else got Henna tattoos (except maybe Brian).
Monday, we went to Providence to find OOP. I thought they’d moved to the mall, from Thayer St, so we went there first… but found it all closed up. They guy in Ritz, next door, gave us a pamphlet with their new locations and a $10 coupon… so we took three. We found the OOP on Westminster St and bought a few books, some chocolate band-aids and some neat little planting kits that look like matchbooks. We got some shiny diner breakfast on the way home. I got the car all packed and we collapsed into bed again.
Apparently, I didn’t set the alarm right, and we got up about an hour after we had planned, but we got on the road within an hour and got back to Illinois before the day was over. Saw a pretty sunset over very flat Ohio. Slowed down a little bit at that silly curve in the highway in Cleveland – otherwise, smooth sailing.
Pictures from the trip are all on Flickr, but I can’t seem to connect to it right now, so I dunno how they look.
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