On Rhode Island the second day, we went on the Misquamakit beach water slides. It was awesome. On the Misquamakit beach water slides you get a mat to ride on, then they just let you go free and ride whatever ride you want. They have one really little slide, three in the middle fun rides and two really big awesome slides, they’re all fun. We rode on the flying horse carousel and I caught the brass ring. I won a free ride.

Other fun things we did in Rhode Island include, going kayaking standing up on the end of the kayak. Mom was paddling, Aidan was laying on the front, and I was standing up on the back. We were quite a sight. We made a single person kayak into a 3 person kayak. I only fell over board once and that one time Aidan said HA- HA! You fell off! I’d like to see him try not to fall off. Next day he tried standing also (he fell off more than once – it’s not easy).

We also did clamming. When we were clamming we found razor clams. Razor clams dig really fast so we had a race. The winner was clam A. In second clam D, and in third was clam B. Then we kayaked back to the cottage. I took one round on the toy-ish real-ish motorcycle. See the pictures!

Then we left and drove all the way home. It was better than the ride to Virginia Beach because Aidan slept most of the way. Tonight I’m going back into my regular round of things and doing karate.

As soon as we got home, we realized that Dad had written phrases on the driveway in chalk. They were “welcome home”, “Connor is great”, “Aidan is awesome”, and “Deb is hot”. Then when we went inside we got a proper greeting from Ginny. Next we realized that Dad got Mom 2 boxes of Good and Plentys, “get passionate” tea and a dozen roses. He also got us the sequel to the Librarian, a movie that we had seen in Virginia Beach. Thanks so much Dad!

I’m now back at home, home sweet home.

-Connor