Our friends Gary and Ashley came to visit us on Friday. They are from Texas and debated about when to come visit to avoid the cold. It ended up being the perfect weekend with the buds of Spring beginning to bloom and 60 and 70 degree temperatures, much nicer than the 40 degree temperatures of Easter weekend. I took them driving around Providence while Nicholas was finishing up some work in his studio.
We traveled down Benefit Street which has a lot of old homes with plaques that state when they were built and who owned the house at the time. It is unfortunate that so many of those houses have now been turned into college apartment houses where 5-10 students live. Then we walked along the canal where they were just setting up Waterfire for the season--more on that in a RI Scrapbook post. Although it doesn't look like the season will start for another month. Then we visited Nicholas' studio and took in the current show in the Graduate Student Art Gallery.
We took them to our favorite pizza place, Bob and Timmy's in hopes that we could sit ouside and because pizza is Gary's fav meal. We had dessert at the best bakery in RI, Pastiche. You may remember mention of said bakery from my birthday celebration. This time we had carrot cake, vanilla cake, coconut passion cake, and homemade strawberry shortcake (no hostess dessert shells for this delectable treat!). On our way home, we caught the sunset over the capital. We were, of course, all over that photo op.
With full bellies, we travelled back to our lovely abode. Ashley and I looked at and talked about wedding scrapbooks. We finished the evening with a rousing game of Apples to Apples which Ashley preceeded to clean up on in her very first attempt.
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