To celebrate 15 years of marriage -- crystal for you traditionalists, watches for you moderns -- Carey and I absconded to Newport, R.I. for a few days last week(end). Many thanks to my folks for tending the home fires. Lots of long walks through very ostentatious and antique-decorated homes (sorry, no pictures allowed inside any of the mansions), plenty of seafood and a couple dessert martinis (espresso and white chocolate=wow). But mostly just a couple days to slow our lives down and remember why we fell in love in the first place -- because we genuinely enjoy spending time together.
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| The start of the Cliff Walk. |
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| Note the newly red hair! |
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| Stud. |
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| The so-called Forty Steps. No relation to the Hitchcock movie that subtracted one. |
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| Jonathan Livingston Seagull cawing about "a falcon's short wings" |
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| Pretty amazing rock wall that extended for about two miles. |
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| The iron gate to The Breakers. Carey gives you some perspective on the size of it. |
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| A fantastic tree on the lawn of The Breakers. Again, Carey offers some perspective. |
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| The Elms, opened in 1901, commissioned by Edward Berwind, who made his fortune mining coal. |
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| Marble House, built in 1892 for the very wealthy William K. Vanderbilt, inheritor of the Vanderbilt railroad empire. 500,000 cubic feet of marble inside and out. |
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| This is what counts as a modest home by Newport standards. Chepstow, completed in 1860 for a dude with a cool name: Edmund Schermerhorn. |
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