2 Days in Little Compton Rhode Island

 We left Monday morning, July 1st, at 10:15 to head to Little Compton Rhode Island to meet up with some friends of ours who rent the same old house on the shore each summer. This year we rented a little overnight spot of our own (not on the water!) so we could spend just a bit more time with them.

We arrived just before lunch and made up some pulled chicken tacos. I had brought salad so we served the two together.

We spent our afternoon inside playing games, talking, and catching up with one another. 

You can tell from my hair that it was really windy outside!

We played Ransom Notes

 

Mid afternoon we decided to walk down to the private beach area and get some exercise. 

Almost as soon as we got back to their rental...

Alec and I went to leave to check into our rental.. it was really cute! It was a 2 bedroom apartment over someone's 3 car garage. 

As soon as we got settled and made ourselves some iced tea we headed back to the house. All the boys played video games together and us mom sat on the porch talking until it was time for dinner. 

We didn't eat dinner until nearly 9 o'clock and I was grilling chicken kabobs in the dark! But it was a delicious dinner with roasted garlic potatoes and salad.

By 10:30 or so I was begging my boys to leave so I could get some sleep. We slept from 11 or so until 5 or 6 the next morning. I worked on the blog when I woke up and waited around to hear from our friends that they were up.

We headed over around 7 am to enjoy some time on the deck with the mom while the boys slept in a bit more. She had to head out for a funeral and woke the boys on her way out. I offered to take everyone for breakfast at The Barn. It was so cute and the food was SO good!

We sat outside on the patio and it was lovely. It was nearly 10 or 10:30 by then and I was starving so I splurged on the croissant French toast with lemon glaze and fresh fruit. Though I am not usually a breakfast food person everything on the menu sounded so good to me and all the food around us looked incredible.

We went back to the house and the kids played video games while I read on the deck.

After a bit we all changed into swim suits and headed to the beach.

Alec and I were content to hang on the beach while the other 3 went in and under water. 

I sat and read a lot of my book and with a nice breeze I wasn't even hot. We finally headed back to the house around 2

And by 3:30 the boys and I had changed, ate a quick snack (fruit salad for me) and got on the road to head back home. We didn't get home until 5:30 because we hit all sorts of traffic, road construction, and detours all around Providence. We were so glad to be home and get showered and relax. It was so much fun but it was a whirlwind couple of days.

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