Greetings From Block Island!

We are in Block Island! For weeks I have heard co-workers talk about their weekend trips to Block Island, so this weekend Todd and I decided to see what all the hoopla was about. Now I know why they love it...Block.Island.Is.Awesome!!! It is located just 13 miles off the coast of Rhode Island and takes a little less than an hour to get there 'on the slow' ferry. We got there around noonish and immediately went to one of their many restaurants overlooking the water. Since it was a holiday weekend, there were tons of people there. It is full of cute little shops and restaurants and people riding on bicycles and mopeds. The island has only 950 residents year-round and over 15,000 in the summer and only 60% of the island is allowed to be built on, so there is a lot of open space. It is gorgeous! After lunch we window shopped for a while before renting a moped of our own and explored the island! We had so much fun driving around seeing the sights.

We also decided that we are absolutely going to retire there! Todd is a bit skeptical as he says I want to retire to most places we visit but this time I am totally serious. I can totally see us in our later years living in one of the many Cape Cod style homes on the island overlooking the ocean. We've already started hammering out a plan. Once we move there, I will open a bakery that I will call 'Shan Tarie's Tasty Treats' to which I will bake delicious pies, cakes and cookies, and possibly sell tubs of my mom's guacamole (yes, its that good) and Todd will open up a Moped rental that he has decided to call 'Todd's Mopeds 4 Less'. We will become friends will all the locals and be incredibly happy. Sounds like a pretty good retirement eh? ::sighs::

On the ferry

Eating some lunch and people watchin'

Moped Rule #1: Safety first!

Cute hubs testing out our ride

WEEEEEE!!!!

Toddi in front of the Southeast Lighthouse. If you are interested in its history click here

what's up?

On the ferry headed home. :(