New England Trip--Sun Oct 11th

It is fall break time for me, so Dustin and I planned to take a vacation to New England. Neither of us have been to New England and we wanted to see the land where our Freedom began. We got on the plane in Indianapolis at 8:35 am, landed in Midway, Chicago, left there and landed in Providence, RI around 11:30 am. That left us with a whole day of touring.

The first step--get our rental car at Thrifty. They gave us a 2010 Ford Fusion. It's very luxurious actually! Came standard with Sirius :) so we were quite happy!

Here we have some scenery in Rhode Island:

Welcome to Kennedy land...



We saw a ton of these windmills on the way to Newport, Rhode Island.

We made it to Newport! We talked to the guy in this visitor's center and he said, "Oh so I see you're Baltimore Colt's fans..." Even though he harassed us, he did give us a FREE Rhode Island map... I say FREE because everywhere else wanted to charge for a map for Rhode Island.We ate at this restaurant that had some of the best calamari and crab cakes! Dustin had some kind of German wheat beer and I had a blue berry ale :)

When we finished with the dinner we went back to the car. They charged $1.50 per half hour for parking--YIKES! So anyway we got out of there pretty cheap and followed a tourist map and found my new house! Can you believe it? Dustin is going to buy this for me :)He had to show me what my life would be like living on the coast, fishing, and enduring the refreshing salty wind!

He said that my neighbors had houses looking like farms... See I'm pointing to them!More beautiful scenery of the Atlantic Ocean at the bottom of Newport.

Here's a pic of our rental car.The light house just about a mile from my new house.

This house has such a Japanese feel, doesn't it?
Ok so here are some other neighbors :) I absolutely love this house. There was a "mansions tour" and so we drove the tour and took a ton of pics. We ended up going kind of fast through the last part because I started getting depressed, especially since many of the houses at 9+ chimneys!




Shopping district in Newport. Here we stopped to get the maps out and head to our hotel in Natik, Massachusetts.
A really cool beach on the way out of Newport.
We made it to the hotel, got ourselves relaxed for a minute, and decided to find something to eat. We ended up at John Harvard's Restaurant and Brewery. We both had burgers and a beer, saw a homosexual guy pull up in an MG and meet his "buddies" who happened to sit next to us, watch the Patriots lose to the Broncos, and watch the kick off of the Colt's game!
This place is beautiful. Our hotel is across from a large shopping mall and right next to Starbucks inside of a Dick's Sporting Goods.

Albion/New Puppies

This past weekend we went up to Albion to visit my parents. Here are some pics along the way.
Here is Amos waiting for Dustin to get in the car. I think Amos wants to drive--though he's quite blind!


Andy is smiling because he knows where he's going!


Amos and Andy hanging out the window excited to go to on "vacation."



Leaving the big city life...

So we can all relax!


Sunday around 3 am Squirrel (Rosie's sister, Dottie & Amos's daughter) gives birth to her first litter.

Warren/Ben Davis game at Lucas Oil Stadium

On Saturday, September 8th, my former students were going to be at Lucas Oil Stadium and tickets were only $11! Dustin and I met a few of my co-workers at Ram and then walked to the game. Here are some pics of the awesome stadium!!



This is what we saw as we walked into the breath-taking stadium!

Nice end to the week

After having a busy and stressful week--leave it to my students to make me just feel so much love for them!!

Here are my 3rd/4th period students. I walked over to make sure they were reading and they had lined themselves up as if they were on a beach together reading! This is my most challenging class and they are so precious and darling here. Just made my morning!!
Here is most of my 6th/7th period block. They are such awesome kids and I love being around them.

What a most sincere smile!

Casey's back from Marine bootcamp!