Vacation car ride

Great day at the beach. Waves in Rhode Island are absolutely amazingly huge. Here's my monologue from the car ride. Sorry, I was bored.

First, a minor gato muerto in the road...we thought Matthew had chicken pox. The doctor told us that they were just a ton of bug bites. Sure. Apparently, because he got the vaccination as a lucky little kid, they’re hesitant to diagnose chicken pox. This little incident reminded me of my own chicken pox experience, which was, predictably, miserable. I got the chicken pox from my lovely brother Andrew when I was 8 and my parents were in Italy. I was left to suffer through itchiness and oatmeal baths with my worry-wart grandmother, and after all that, they didn’t even know if they were the real chicken pox. Real? I wasn’t aware there were fake ones. Well, anyway, I had to have a blood test, and yes, they were the real deal. A wonderful specimen of the absolutely fantastic virus we call chicken pox.

Okay, back to vacation...Matthew’s chicken pox scare averted, or so we think, we packed our bags – overpacked, of course – and left for our vacation destination.
We merged onto the Massachusetts Turnpike; crossed over the Hudson River on an old baby blue bridge, on our way to the tiny little state of Rhode Island. Apparently, normal radio stations cut out like ten miles from Farmington, especially when travelling east.
Luckily, we passed all the road work sites when it was still de la madrugada, so there were minimal delays there. As always, my brother was way too talkative. The problem with being up so early, well, one of the many problems with being up so early, is that then you get hungry about an hour later, and no one wants to eat at 5:30 in the morning.

The car ride actually wasn't all that bad, except when Andrew decided that he needs to narrate his music selections, ‘like a real DJ’. We almost had a 'fight fight fight' when he turned on that stupid AC/DC song.

Anyway, then we stopped for breakfast at this place that I think was worse than Keuka's cafeteria. It was like semi-self-serve, and the service was really fast. Food wasn't bad...

So we arrived, and our house is a cute little place - and believe me when I say small (there are like 4 rooms) - it has an awesome little garden, and is RIGHT on the ocean. The view is absolutely amazing. We can see sailboats all the time, and this awesome little lighthouse in the distance. I'll put up a picture if I can.

Well, more to come... Rhode Island is awesome!!