Another great feast

One of the best exhibits we have visited. Apart from the well know, to us at least, protest art fab tapestries of several periods.

The iconic Tar Beach quilt. QB recognized from the Guggenheim

Annual show moves to a different mansion each year. Small this year we were told. Not in the league of Amsterdam

Extended family fest. Lobsterama!

Lobster bisque on the way

Final day of our Solage adventure. Have been eating quite well and getting stuff (olive oil, baked good) and a flat tire.

Our run flat tires worked as expected in that we could drive to a nearby (very lucky us) tire place that fixed the flat. What seemed odd to me, not having any experience with run flats, is I could not tell I had a flat except from the dashboard warning. Drove as normal. Strange to me.

Ball of String: Nearby private Petrified Forest. A walk in the woods through the forest. Some pics.

Nice drive up, nice hot tub soak. Two for KB as there is a spa, outside spa, on the patio, private for this room. What a treat.

Dinner at the Solbar restaurant, prix fix V day special (meaning special price). Excellent dinner.

The spa right outside our patio. A great room upgrade. Guessing the property not very busy.

Six course tasting menu: cheesecake with salmon, very good buttery bun with fancy butter. Looks like anything but butter was was excellent. The drinks, champagne cocktails. Later a sparkling wine arrived.

White (surprisingly good and overcooked) asparagus with green ones and some ham.

The lobster course of course.

And then the filet mignon. I rarely have meat but this one could make one change his mind.

Meringue of raspberries etc. Impressive sauce

Cloudy day plaza de Mayor

Breakfast at FoodLove and dinner at Quito’s. Jeff had a HUGE lobster (2 lbs). Sharon enjoyed also extremely large scallops meunière. Gelato for dessert.

A warm day for an interesting trip to Block Island. High-speed ferry rental of bicycles, eating of ice cream. Upon return a hamburger at Joe’s with some of the crew

Grass mowing everywhere as we drove nearly an hour to the ferry. So with the ferry ride basically two hours from the house. Takes forever (qb added).

Road construction along almost every highway with cones and cones and cones.

Llamas. Rented bikes. Several mile bicycle ride out to the lighthouse where we walked on sand for a while to almost reach it. Wasn’t open so we didn’t bother climbing all the way. Rocky beach hard on toes.

Could not find the walking path to the pond; we must’ve bicycled past it several times.

Yes ice cream a fitting treat after a long day Garmin watch that over 13 miles

Block Island tee shirts say 1661

QB finally got her belated b’day hamburger at Jo’s American Bistro. Locals here said this is the best place for a burger, QB’s yearly one. With wedge salad!! It passed muster. KB had a professionally made Impossible Burger and preferred it when compared. G & M had real burgers and Marcia had shrimp’n’grits.

Total exhaustion at end of the day. QB retired around 10pm, which is almost unheard of.

Early start with a winding trip to Boston to get a chair at DWR. M&G navigated via a drive to Wickford Station, commuter train to Boston, Charlie subway to Cambridge. Five hours from the time we got up we arrived. Much easier than driving in Boston.

Chairs obtained, tomatoes harvested by Elizabeth – who nicely fixed the fortress squirrel cam. Speaking of the latter, the problem was it got unplugged. My theory, and I am sticking to it, is that the squirrels did it in revenge.

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Then there is the lobster….

Need to end the pig out with some ice cream

And finally an after dinner walk