PROVIDHENS, ROAD ISLAND

Hi everyone!  Eunice and I just came back from a trip. Wow, it's been awhile since we traveled anywhere other than stuffing our tummies.  You remember that we have been renaming places since we are "discovering" them the way Chris Columbus did.  Our destination was Providence, Rhode Island and now renamed Providhens, Road Island (as in "why did the chicken cross the road" fame).

We took a bus.  Company is called Megabus.  Cheap travel but the buses are really nice.  Comfy seats (even have seat belts), free wi-fi and the cost was $0 each way because that were doing a special promotion.  We asked the bus driver if we could work the wheel.  Couldn't make it happen because neither Eunice or I could reach the foot pedals.

Arriving in Providhens and checking in at the Hotel Providence.  Jim, the bellman, told me that the hotel allows pets.  Kewl.

Nice room. There was a concern about having a feather pillow.  I was a bit upset and simply wanted to hide. Eunice talked me out of it and said that we should just go out there and have a great time.

We wanted to get some ideas as to where to go.  The Visitor's Bureau had an office in the Convention Center, which wasn't that far away and we later returned there for some shows.

This nice lady, Kristen, couldn't understand how we got on top of the sign, since we can't fly.

By this time lunch was in order.  We went to a most fab seafood restaurant called Hemenway's and had a sandwich.  Even though we made nice to the Executive Chef, he told us that we could not rename the place, "Henenway"s".   Food was good!

It was quite cold outside but it didn't rough our non-feathers.  We wanted to go to the zoo.  Tried talking with the giraffe but couldn't yell loud enough for it to hear us.   Saw these poor birds who apparently each lost a leg.  I did get to talk with what I think is a baby wombat or wallaby (not sure), part of the family of Marsupials. I told her that we would try our best to get the "red eye" out of the photo.

Rested back at the hotel and then had dinner at a restaurant called "Local 121".  Loved the food. Did not order chicken. 

We took in a few museums.  One was the Museum of Art, Road Island School of Design.  Eunice got a hold of a book and described what we were seeing is this particular gallery.

We then saw some sculpture that must have cost an arm and a leg.  Hmmm...I wonder why they call this thing a "pecker".

The other museum that we went to was the Culinary Arts Museum at Johnson and Wales University.  We made believe eating the make believe food and checked out some fellow chickens. I told Eunice to check out this old meat grinder and tried turning it on, but I really knew that it wouldn't work.  Eunice then threatened to dump me into a pot.

That evening we ate at an Italian restaurant called Pane E Vino noticing that this area was called Federal Hill and having a large Italian population. 

We returned the next day for a tour of a bakery called Scialo Brothers Bakery.  Wow those ovens sure looked hot!  It was someone's birthday so the tour was special.

We wanted to make sure to check out this book store run by Brown University. Eunice said that in no way would we enroll here when it would be much easier for us to get a scholarship to Perdue!

Our last stop was back at the Convention Center where they had two shows.  One was their Spring Flower and Garden Show and the other was a Food and Wine Festival.  

I was going to taste Dave's coffee syrup but there was alcohol in the drink.  We wanted to make sure we stayed sober as it was time to pack up and go home.  Great time and thanks to Kristen Adamo and Brian Hodge from the CVB.