Trip to Rhode Island

So this past weekend we took a trip to Rhode Island to attend Uncle Ed's memorial service. The trip up was quite eventfull. After picking up Cousin Chris in DC, we somehow ended up in Southeast, note, I was not driving :) We then in our infinite wisdom decided to go through the city at 5pm instead of get on the beltway. I'm still not sure who decided that.

The rest of the trip went fairly smooth with the exception of waiting for 2 hours to cross the GW bridge from NJ into NY. There's nothing like seeing 3 lanes on a bridge merge to 1, and having a SEMI and a Big Bus on each side of you, just 1" from your mirror. Needless to say I had to stop, because they did not seem to care about smooshing a van in between. The semi driver though, had the balls to pull to the left, before coming back to the middle, just so he wouldn't bust my mirror off. So... he knew I was there, but decided to still get in front of me anywhere.

This was about an hour after I was cutoff, in front of a toll both, by a Semi with a trailer. Now one would think only a driver for a small company would do such a thing.... Nope, it was a UPS truck, license plate 0816626, we couldn't see the state, appeared to be a redish plate. The number of the cab of the truck was 268530, so if you seech him, tell him to watch his cutting off drivers in front of toll booths. :)

We finally arrived at the hotel in Connecticut at 3:45am, after having left at 4:15PM. Luckily the kids were asleep in our hotel room at 4:30, in time for us to get 4 hours of sleep to then drive to Rhode Island.

All in all, the drive was worth the site of that Lighthouse in RI, and for the ceremony. It has to be one of the most beautiful spots I've seen in the country, and defintiely rivals anything I ever saw on Cape Cod. It's so peaceful, and alive, I could spend hours just sitting there and staring at the ocean, and the sea gulls. We followed up the day with my first time ever eating lobster. While I still prefer crab any day of the week, it wasn't bad at all.

The trip back wasn't too bad, with the exception of traffic by the Giants/Jets game, and bad traffic on 495 from the Skins game. I'm just so tired of driving...... I need several naps and a vacation :)