We could have called this the trip of bridges. I wish we would have kept a tally of how many bridges we crossed, rough guesstimate would be 50! We left the Cape by way of the Bourne Bridge and drove on over to Newport, Rhode Island. The states in this region are so small, traveling from town to town seems to go quick. We were in Newport before we knew it.
Newport is FULL of awesome shops and pubs and boardwalks, it would be a very fun place to spend a weekend. We were hoping to find a Lobster Pound to eat at, but were told it was not quite in season for all those little seafood joints to open up. Ainslie was bummed. We were directed to a pub called the Red Brick Pub. It was fantastic!
Brick Alley Pub was a winner! We had one of the most amazing meal of our whole trip here. Ainslie finally was able to order lobster. Our funny line (or one of them) for the trip was "I am just dyin for some lobstah", by Ainslie. She wanted to eat a lobster pound so bad. Just means we will have to go back.
This is what I ordered. AMAZING. Spicy and full of awesome flavors. My mouth is watering right now just looking at the picture. This was voted by Gourmet Magazine as one of the countries best appetizers, or something like that....I forgot to write down the specifics. What ever they are...it was voted by me at spectacular! The crusty warm bread they served with it did not make the picture, but was also noteworthy.
Here is the Roo-girl digging into her Lobstah roll. She said, "YUM!".
When in a seaside village you must buy salt water taffy and fudge. And sit down immediately on the first unclaimed bench you see and commence to eatin!
We did find a Lobster "place". They didn't but the would cook up this monster for us.
The kids had fun, checking out all the live lobsters in tank.
Over all we loved Newport, and would love to come back to Rhode Island and explore it further in the future.
