Day 33 – Tuckertown, Rhode Island

I didn’t mention it yesterday, but I must have sprained my left foreleg while jumping out of the truck when we got back to the coach last night.  I let Geri and Don know about it, and they gave me a pill to reduce the pain, for which I was thankful.  This morning, I was still limping, so Don took Gracie and I for a short walk, and I refrained from doing any trotting.  It feels better now, thank you, and I hope it will be back to normal tomorrow. 

We had kind of a lazy morning, lots of reading and browsing on the computer, Gracie and I getting attention whenever and wherever we could, otherwise snoozing.  A little before noon, we all got our acts together and piled into the truck to go to Joanne’s.  I got to lay down behind the front seats of the truck, because of my bad leg.  When we got to Joanne’s, we saw that there was a car in the driveway, which meant that Marie and Matt had arrived last night.  Don opened the door from the garage to the kitchen, and Gracie went storming into the house and up the stairs to the bedrooms, eliciting a great deal of squawking and screaming from the tenants.  She came running back down, very happy about the disruption she had caused.  Marie and Matt came down the stairs soon after, and Geri, Don and I were happy to meet them both. 

We all sat around the kitchen and talked, and I got to sit next to Marie and get a lot of attention from her.  She’s heading up to Maine to do some theater work, and is an aspiring actress and singer.  They talked a lot about musical theater, which Geri and Don both love, and she was thrilled to hear their story about meeting her idol, Bernadette Peters, after one of her shows in New York some years ago.  I could tell they were having a really good time talking with her and Matt, and they made some plans to get together again in Maine.  But the party finally broke up, with Geri and Don heading out to go to a museum in Narragansett, and Matt and Marie travelling to Providence and Wickford.  Gracie and I were left to fend for ourselves, and wound up snoozing most of the day.

When Geri and Don returned, they told me about the South County Museum, where they had spent most of the afternoon.  They said that it had a lot of artifacts from the agricultural side of the area’s economy, and some great photographs of local fishermen at work.  There is a great collection of old printing equipment, linotypes, letterpresses, and a whole bunch of other stuff I never heard of before.  They thought it was a really interesting place, and were glad that they had visited it.  They told me that they had then driven up to Jamestown, which is on an island in Narragansett Bay, near Newport.  They saw a lot of beautiful old homes and a lighthouse that was the third oldest in the country!  They decided to have dinner in Jamestown, and Geri found a review of a restaurant on her cell phone that sounded good.  When they arrived at the restaurant, they found that it was affiliated with the Portuguese American Club in Jamestown, so they weren’t sure what to expect.  But they said the food was excellent, particularly Geri’s dish of mussels and clams with linguini.  Don’s fish and chips were very much to his liking, also. 

Don said that even Joanne would have been pleased with the portion size of the wine served with the dinner. 

After dinner, they raced back to Joanne’s to make dinner for Gracie and me, then loaded us into the truck for our return to the coach.  Sounds like they had a pretty nice day! 

We watched a little TV, put the blog together, had a few cookies, and bedded down for the night.  The big excitement tomorrow is the return of Joanne!  We’ll all be happy to see her, particularly us doggy people.