The Escape 003 - Vacation Diaries

Sunset drinks at Castle Hill, trespassing (again) onto cool locations, foraging vintage shops, more cocktails on boats, enjoying my new favorite dessert (for the 3rd time while on vacation) and discovering new boutiques like Kristina Richards with an amazing shop-able shoe closet and cozy man chairs. 

Night Light - What I Wore

Well it looks like my camera isn't all that bad at night and I'm not that bad of a photographer after a couple of drinks.  These pics are from our first night on vacation and as I said before, I got a lot of use out of these shorts.  This time around I paired them with another sheer button down but in a fun floral print from H&M's Spring collection.  I'm sure it was a interesting sight for onlookers to watch me prop the camera on the window of a hardware store/dentist office and run practically into the street to get in front of the lens before the self timer ran out.  Atleast I didn't get the typical honk or outburst...that was definitely a blessing. 

That night we ended up eating at the Red Parrot.  I have a particular sweet spot for calamari and they have, hands down, the best calamari in Newport.  I planned on savoring the lobster stuffed ravioli as my entree but completely forgot just how generous the appetizer serving was and for only $15 I was stuffed.  Our waiter tried to tell us it was a large serving and we proceeded to tell him about our larger than life appetite but I didn't notice until later that he had already politely removed the menu to keep temptation away.  Good move. Two drinks and a whole lot of calamari we decided to walk it all off.....which led to the random night photos and a whole lotta laughs along the way.

Hope your week is going well!!!!

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t h e  h i g h l i g h t s :

• Walks filled with color from interesting moss covered rocks to bountiful amounts of gorgeous hydrangeas
• Loving the fact that we never had to order an entree because the appetizers were so big
• A little light trespassing (onto one location in particular I will talk about later)
• Finding the cutest stickers at the coolest skate stores
• Realizing everyone has it wrong in not painting their  door hot pink and wondering if it is considering a lease violation if I paint our apartment door that exact color
• Discovering the best dessert ever at Speakeasy - Creme Brulee with Banana Fritters  YUM!!
• Advoiding being taken advantage of at the plethora of Lush-like bath/beauty shops that popped up out of no where.  I'm sorry, $65 for a bottle of lotion is completely absurd
• A never ending variety of bars to stop in and grab a quick drink...to bad no one's turned a boat into a party boat.  Yeah there were all sorts of yachts docked in the harbor but something a lot less exclusive. We all can't afford a lovely boat called Trustfund Baby (yep thats what one sexy yacht was named) and how awesome would it be to hop on a boat at midnight and party it up till 8am listening to techno. Oh yeah, maritime law does not declare you stop the liquor flow at the same time as their fellow patrons stationed on land.
• And yes, that one picture of a house is actually one that someones lives in. Probably only in the summer but it could very well be their everyday abode....gotta love Ocean Drive

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Lots of eating, lots of walking (to burn off what we ate), a dash of trespassing and lots of washing the day down with great cocktails.  We always have a blast in Newport and no matter how many times we go it always feels like our first trip.  There is well over a hundred photos so there's so much more to show you once I stop being lazy and grab the other camera out of bag (these were all taken with my camera phone).