Last of Jo & Mom’s Travels

Geocaching at Old Furnace State Park
What an awesome park this is! Just down the road from the East Coast Family home is this very large park with trails, ponds, streams and wild life and a few geocaches to find.
How did we do?

A car gps just didn’t get us close enough to the hidden treasures. Real Frogs = 1 (which peed all over Jo), Scarlet Tanager bird = 1 (beautiful bird), Mosquitoes = to many to count (we all got bit), Caches = 0 (but the hiking was awesome and the views were gorgeous) and Spending time with Mandy = Priceless!

NEWPORT, RI
Trish, Paul, Jo and I spent a late afternoon strolling the Cliff Walk and catching the sunset over the bay.
Jo and I on the Cliff Walkway.

What a GREAT evening sunset!

The moon promptly came out so I played with a couple shots with Jo and Trish.
Always so warm and beautiful.

Dinner outside on a pier.
Trish & Paul, Jo and I.
I ordered my first lobster after looking at the price (wrong price might I add). It was a challenge to eat but OH MY GOSH was it incredible meal. Jo ordered Mac n Cheese and proceeded to eat my lobster once she cleaned her plate. The claws were so hard that I had to have Paul crack them.
When the bill came I realized my error in the lobster price and gulped hard as I realized I would no longer be eating for the rest of my trip! Ok, wasn’t that bad and so worth the experience!

SIX FLAGS!
Do I really need to explain to you how much I LOVED this place? Ooops, I mean we took the kids there for the day to play.

Rides
Trish took Jo on the swings and this was not only a big deal for Jo as she loves the swings but Trish hates them and yet took her. (great photo by the way Trish and thanks for not dropping my camera while you swung around and around)
While they were on the swings the rest of us were on the Batman roller coaster! Another GREAT photo Trish!
(I have my hands up! Zoomed in on the photo because this park was really about me… I mean the kids)

Act out a Super Hero
Mandy as Flash, Mom as Superman & Jo as Wonder Woman.

Park Characters
Bugs!

Mr. Six!

The Wiggles
The park has a whole area of The Wiggles but Jo didn’t want to even go into this area as she felt she is too old for them now. But when Jo saw the characters walking around the park she got so excited and was almost giggly to get her photo with them. Must have brought out happy memories for her when she was young. Ha Ha

Shaggy & Scooby

The kids just kept torturing me with these photos. (Did I say this park was about me? I didn’t think so)

Henna Tattoos.
Mandy and Jo showing off their henna tattoos.

Marvin the Martin
Marvin was not out in the park this day because he was going to be in the parade that night. So of course I had to take a picture of Marvin as he would be my giggly moment of childhood memories. Oh, who am I kidding…childhood, young adult, middle age (am I there yet, crap) and probably until I die age. Love Ya, Marvin!

And we end this trip as we started!
Thanks for the blanket Trish and Mandy, it came in handy on the flights home!
Jo and I had such a wonderful time! We were so busy with travel, sights and family it made the trip awesome!