We're outta there!

Yes, we're on vacation. We left Atlanta this morning at 11:30 and are now at my mother's house in Cranston, RI. The airport was easy--the hardest part was saying goodbye to the fids. Willow was downright hysterical.

We had a nice flight: came directly over the James River (which the flight attendant said she'd never heard of!), and saw Block Island and Newport from the air. The one problem is that it is horrendously hot and my mother has no air conditioning. We went out to Linens'n'Things and bought another fan with the coupon I had and are trying our best to get air circulating through the house. The windows are very heavy and my mom tends to keep most of them closed. (She's 85.)

We cooled off by wandering around Borders for a while, where I found a book of old Boston photos and another on the Blizzard of '78, and we went out to eat at a favorite Chinese restaurant. They make "proper" fried rice, dark and very rich tasting, with onions, bean sprouts, and pork, not that greasy yellow stuff with peas and carrots in it that passes for fried rice. I ordered take out for a day later this week.

Tonight we watched the Boston Pops concert that my mom recorded for us. It previously aired on WCVB-TV, simulcast on the A&E cable network. Well, the Pops made a deal with another Boston station, WBZ, to air their concerts instead. The coverage sucked big dogs. I mean, really. Perky, annoying hosts, annoying "floor" reporters (except for the guy with the cute baby), bad, bad camera work as a whole during the fireworks--hey, when I watch fireworks, I want to see them, not people watching the fireworks--although a few of the long shots were interesting. Leeann Rimes was the special celebrity guest and she sang too many modern songs. Heck, she even pimped a new song from Legally Blonde 2! They had a wonderful operatic singer on, plus the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and they wasted too much screen time on Rimes moaning some songs. The one patriotic song she sang was fine, if forgettable. And when the CBS network cut in during the last hour, commentator Harry Smith babbled on...and on...and on...

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