Four weeks to the day we left Lubbock, we took an apartment #9 (from previous post) in Newport, Rhode Island. We're still looking for furnishings.
Living on camp chairs, camp air mattress, and camp dishware.
We can bbq on the fire escape!
Stephen's dad came to visit us for his day off from National Guard training in Pennsylvania.
Newport was founded in 1639. It is on the southern end of Aquidneck Island (Middletown and Portsmouth just above it.) We visited the edge to see the mansions and rocky beach.
Then we walked around downtown. (some delicious hot cocoa for me and cappuccino for Stephen.)
Newport is also the home of many old churches (we only visited the synagogue on our first visit). The oldest is Trinity Church, built in 1726. When the British occupied Newport during the Revolutionary War, they burned every church except this one, because it was Church of England (Anglican) and had a crown on the steeple. Like the Puritan church, it has box seating for pews.
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