We're enjoying our stay in the Hampton Inn & Suites® Providence, along with other folks attending niece Gina's wedding. It's an historic building erected in 1920 as the Old Colony House, home of the Old Colony bank, and has been at various times a bank and a chapel before its eventual restoration.
Nine of us ate a local seafood restaurant last night that promised much and didn't live up to expectations. It was still an enjoyable evening.
We're moving back to an airport hotel tonight, and in the meantime attend a wedding and a reception. The hotel is giving us a late check-out and we can leave our car parked here until this evening.
It's another glorious day here, and we could draw some very inaccurate conclusions about the Rhode Island climate after our four days of sunshine and warm days here.
Kathy and Brian
Two retired educators alternating joyfully between seeing the world and enjoying our eight grandchildren (in order of birth), Jake, Avery, Taegan, Lily, Peyton, Riley, Blane, and Jace.
Kathy and Brian met in the clarinet section of the University of California (Santa Barbara) Symphony Orchestra several decades ago.
Brian's Western Canadian roots and Kathy's Colorado ties resulted in their making beautiful music together along with producing a cross-border crop of descendants.
Kathy spent a year studying in Vienna at the Institute for European Studies and the University of Vienna.
Brian started the school band program in Hope, British Columbia, and later became the high school's vice-principal for 6 years and subsequently principal for 15 years before retiring in 2001.
Kathy, in between raising our three children, taught kindergarten and first grade, middle school, and high school - mathematics, computer studies, ESL, and her first love, band, before retiring in 2001.
We enjoy sharing our travel experiences and providing the odd travel tip to friends, relatives, and visitors.