Fried okra, ghetto casino and Newport rules

I have returned from my mini vacay. It was pretty awesome despite almost getting heat stroke from my car's AC being dead. Luckily our hotel had an outdoor pool for us to recover in.

Newport, RI is awesome. You have tons of restaurants, bars, ocean, and mansions. There is also a ghetto slots casino right across from our hotel where we got to see a middle aged man play the saxophone and sing sexy back.

I also managed to make Derek take a picture with me. He's very anti picture and I'm very pro pictures. Maybe because I like blogging and documenting. My suggestion to getting someone to take a picture with you who does not like pictures is to have an insistent Spanish woman come up to you and tell you she is going to take a picture of you for you.

So let's get to the pictures.

 Is this a drowning statue? I mean that's the first thing that came to mind when I saw this.

Fried okra! One of my favorite fried foods.

Outdoor bars with ocean views everywhere. Love it.

Finally! A picture of Mr. I don't like photos.

The ghetto casino with Mr. Sax-o-beat. We couldn't stop laughing. The 40 something year old ladies were loving him. We saw him chatting a few up outside. We did not win anything at the slots. Oh well.

King bed, yes please!

Rough day of vacationing

Thank you Spanish lady for forcing picture number 2. She was really cute and insisted that we needed a "couple" pic with the ocean in the background.

Cliff walk. One of my favorite parts of Newport

I guess you better stay on the paved path.

My summer home. No big deal.

I wish we could have stayed another night but it was nice to get away even if it was just for a night. I'm sure I'll be back to Newport soon considering it's really not that far from Boston. I guess now I need to get back into work mode which is going to be hard after having 3 days off. I hope you guys had a great weekend.

I should have brought more shirts

I've learned something while I was in Newport. Bring many extra shirts when handling a baby or at least my nephew. I think he was spitting up on me for fun.

Multitasking auntie wearing the same shirt two days in a row.

I love Newport Rhode Island. I haven't been there since I was 21 and I loved it just as much this time around. Look at this view that I woke up to this morning.

 

Not a bad view right? Even though I looked like this when my brother woke me up I did have a good morning.

Thank you Sean for this lovely moment. 

The roof deck on the hotel was awesome. I need a roof deck in my life, or even a porch! City living sucks sometimes.

One of my favorite things in Newport (besides the mansions) is Cliff Walk. It was a bright sunny spring day so we decided to check it out. 

CAUTION! Do not throw your children off a cliff!

These signs were all over the path. In case you couldn't tell that your were actually on a steep cliff.

I had so much fun spending time with my my brother and his family. I'll be really sad when my they go back to Louisiana.

I was singing Peal Jam to Hunter in the back seat and he was cracking up. Probably because I can't sing and because I do a weird Eddie Vedder voice. His car seat had the word "evenflo" on it which started the whole singing thing. I'm not this crazy Pearl Jam fan.

I'm heading out into the night with my cousin Alexis and the always entertaining Molly. I'm probably going to be horrified by the men out there in the world. I have no desire to flirt with bar dudes but I probably will. Good thing my ladies got my back.