Saturday, January 10, 2009

How the other half lives...


Back in the day, Newport, Rhode Island was where all the rich folk spent their summers. There are tons of summer "cottages" aka ginormous mansions to go through. The biggest and best is the Vanderbilt's mansion 'The Breakers.' When the weather is nice, you can walk through the backyard to the beautiful ocean and walk along the beach to see all the other mansions. We went in December because they are decorated for Christmas, but next time we'll have to spend some quality time at the beach.

We took longer than planned and were a little late getting our friend to the Providence Airport. She would have still made her flight, had it not been for Lee, our usually trustworthy Australian GPS voice. We requested Providence Airport and he took us a little too literally. By the time we turned onto the dead end street and Lee announced that we were at our destination, we noticed that we were practically on the runway, separated only by a fence. It took us too long to backtrack and find our way to the actual airport, that she missed her flight.
Moral of the Story: When using a GPS, always type 'airport arrivals/departures.'


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