We knew we were heading to Rhode Island for the day, but decided to throw Cape Cod into the mix since Rhode Island is such a tiny state. So we headed to the oldest Cape Cod town of “Sandwich”.
So obviously that only left us with one lunch choice, we had to eat a sandwich in Sandwich of course with Cape Cod chips at The Chew.
Then we drove over to the board walk to take in the view of The Cape after checking out a few stores.
The boardwalk in itself was Really neat. Walking the long walk holding our umbrella sideways to block the inevitable wind and rain as we read all of the engraved boards. So many sweet messages. I wonder how many people got engaged by the “will you marry me” board?
When we got by the water we started looking for our rock to bring home and I almost instantly stumbled upon this little white rock that had a heart on it. Perfect!
Cape Cod was beautiful, chilly, wet, and windy…
Very windy….
And all of our joking and silly pictures aside, we had a blast ignoring the funky weather!
Now to explore Rhode Island!
Full of more beautiful sights…
However The path we took to get to Newport only offered the sight of one lonesome light house….
Yes, that is in someone’s yard. Close enough. We saw a real one in Maine, right? Ha ha. Where else have we seen a Rudolph the red nosed reindeer crossing?
We explored many more unique shops. Found several souvineers for our family and friends.
And stumbled upon the fattest seagul we had ever seen.
In planning for this part of the trip I knew there was a few local items we had to partake in. So while driving around we found this little jem on the side of a random road and I caught a brief glace at the menu on the wall, so we turned around. It seems Evelyn’s has been around for quite some time. And turns out it had been featured on the show Diners, Drive-ins, & Dives.
We only happened upon it because I saw they had the famous state drink on their menu, coffee milk. And we decided to split a lobster roll for dinner. Turns out, this lobstah roll was loaded with twice as much lobster as the one we got in Maine. The coffee milk was interesting enough that we stopped at a local grocery store and bought a bottle to bring home for our girls to try. Maybe we won’t tell them it’s caffeine free?
Other food and drink items on the list to try were the pizza strips. Which to us was almost the equivalent of a glorified bread stick with pizza sauce on it, but sold in every bakery in sight.
Then there was the coffee cabinet or as we know them in the south a shake. It’s really a good thing we’ll be doing so much walking on this trip, because this is far more junk than is in our usual day to day diet, but vacation.
We also got a sugar free vanilla iced latte from this little joint where we found the massive seagul.
Pretty much the only thing on our list that we didn’t find was a “bubblah”, but we already know what a water fountain looks like so I think we will survive.
We really enjoyed exploring this itty bitty state. Missing our lil monsters a ton, but the quality time with each other is priceless as well. 
And really, how stunning is this view?
