Rhode Island
Just returned from three and two-half days in Rhode Island. (Why not four? Because it wasn't four days. It was three whole days and two half days, the half days being late Monday afternoon and Friday morning.) There were sixteen of us (aunts (2), uncles (2), grandparents (2), parents (2), siblings (2), & cousins (5)), all staying in the positively enormous house about 10 minutes' walk from the beach.
The house was a sprawling affair, situated in the middle of the woods at the end of a rocky dirt road. It was complete with all the details of old New England - outdoor shower, dusty wooden floors, porcelain bathtubs on little carved feet, tiny crawlspaces everywhere, huge closets, dozens of full bookshelves, rickety old furniture, and those funny hooked latches on the doors. It also suffered from an acute lack of hallways - on the upper floor, getting from place to place usually meant walking through two or three bedrooms in the middle.
Arriving at the house triggered a certain set of old emotions in me. I think every kid dreams of being in an ancient mansion where you could actually get lost (at least, it was a dream of mine). I actually did get lost a few times the first day.
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Yeah, I guess it kinda is every kid’s dream, huh. It was mine, at least. ::shrugs:: I still haven’t. Refer me to your local mansions, people. I have mansionitis after reading this; must… find… mansions… 10 writs and an armoredillo pelt would be handy as well. =/
But as it would happen, Aa, if you read this, I finally paid clanhappy to give me better hosting. Four dollars gone per month out of my already skimpy 40-hour-work-week-at-minimum-wage-paycheck. ::sighs:: Although soon, I will be blogging.
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Posted by alex at June 24, 2002 4:35 PM :: LinkPost a comment
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I spent a summer in a house like that once. Only without the claw foot tub, just the outdoor shower. And it was filled with bugs. Only it was in Cape Cod.
There’s this hotel in Rhode Island, Ocean House, it is large and yellow, and smells amazing, it smells like, old. I’ve yet to spend a night in it, but it is my goal to do so.
Posted by Kylen at June 21, 2002 6:45 PM :: Link