People were lined up on the street outside
one of the gift shops near the old town hall when I went for
coffee this morning. I asked somebody: "What's going on? Is
it beanie babies?" "Yup, it's beanie babies." An hour later
when I came out of Starbucks after coffee, the line was
still there but had clearly progressed. There's a beanie
baby show at the Rolling Green this weekend. Can you believe
it?
I have today off because the nieces are down
the Cape. Hope the remnants of Tropical Storm Danny doesn't
rain on their parade as it were.
Anyway, this means I can get an early start for the
weekend's Black Ships festivities in Newport. I'm driving
down to Nancy's momentarily so we can get up early tomorrow
morning for the trek to Newport. It's an hour and a half to
Providence from my house and then an hour to Newport. Not a
huge deal but I hate to get up early in the morning.
Everyone will be better off if I go to Providence tonight
and am fresh for the drive to Newport.
There's some cat shelter thing Stacey asked Roberta to do
this weekend (I forget what) and I said I couldn't do it
because I am going to a sumo tournament in Newport. Roberta
thought it was a joke. She's been making fun of it ever
since. She says sumo isn't real - it's like the WWF
wrestling. I tried to explain that this is amateur sumo -
high school kids- and very real. Anyway, she couldn't
imagine anyone actually being a sumo fan.
Off to the wilds of Rhode Island!
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