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A Day trip to Block Island!...Updated 9/3

I thought i'd write a trip report for my Day trip to Block Island since I am procrastinating on having to pack for my upcoming Disney trip and plus will help me upload my photos so I can clear out the memory card! Plus some people may actually like hearing about it if not then read anyway to make me think that

So you probably want to hear all the fun stuff like who's going, why and how. You'll stop reading then and the rest of the gab won't matter just kidding!

So the Cast of Characters:

Amy- Thats me your TR writer, I'm 25 going on 5 and get distracted by all things shiny and enjoyer of Margarita's, Disney and well travel in general. Multiple trips to Block Island as a kid

Angela- My mom, age 52 (yes she'll kill me later for telling you but she isn't writing it so she will have to deal with it) another travel enthusiast and multiple trip goer to Block Island.

Dennis- My Mother's husband (ok my father so you don't get the wrong idea) 54 and goes places to eat but not much else. We bring him along to pay for things but a real grouch to be around. There won't be much about him in here but he went.

When: Sunday September 2nd, 2007

Why: well because we had to use tickets before they expired and well it was our last chance to go before the summer ended!

So on with the show!

Well this all started the end of July when my mom came sadly into my room and sat down saying how she wished she could go to Block Island this summer but it didn't look like it would work out. See we usually go 1 or 2 times a summer but this year we were so busy with a wedding, my 25th birthday (hey i think that should have been a national holiday but still i digress) and a trip to Pennsylvania, a camping trip with Dyan, and just trying to get things ready for a Surprise Party and a trip to Disney we just didn't know how we could 1. afford it 2. find time for it and 3. both 1 and 2!

Well about 2 weeks later I was driving into my place of employment and had on this radio station that I don't usually listen to but they had my "song of the week" on and I couldn't change the channel that would have been bad! I usually end up digging one song for about a week want to hear it as much as possible then it gets boring and i move on! So anyway like you wanted to hear that but anyways...
After the song ends they went into some mindless chatter about Paris/Lindsay/Nicole's arrest pick one i'm sure it was about all three at some point and then he says something about having fun like that on block island call now for free tickets on the hi speed ferry! So normally i wouldn't even think of trying as I usually could have the only name in a barrell and still lose whatever they were drawing for but i dialed the number and it rang, and rang, and rang. Well just about the time I was going to hang up the radio DJ answers and says "whats your name" I said Amy and he said "congrats your my 6th caller" me not having listened don't know if that means i won or if i'm the wrong caller so I blankly say "i am do i win?" he laughed probably because most people would be more excited but frankly I never know how to react when stuff like this happens. Well of course I won the tickets!

So now I had 2 Free round trip tickets on the Hi-Speed Ferry out of New London, CT to Block Island that would be good until the end of 2007. I hung up after giving my information and called mom she was absolutely ecstatic about it and said we'd find time before the summer ended to go!

We couldn't go the very next weekend because of some family obligations, then I had job interviews so we couldn't go on a monday so we settled on the Last Sunday in August. We called made reservations but then the forecast came out and it was going to be overcast and really humid so we sadly cancelled. But rebooked for Sunday of Labor Day weekend

We worried about crowds but figured it would be a nice break from work and if we could get enough done before then we wouldn't be too far behind for our trip, surprise party (we are hosting) and could go and have fun!

Up next.... How we added a 3rd person and will the weather work out?
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