From Micaiah's Travel Journal - Rhode Island (Plus a Tiny Update from Mama)

This was not written today! The logistics of typing up a blog, editing and posting all in one wifi visit, is NOT something we've mastered yet! Hopefully, we will deluge you with posts to get us catched up. If you want to know in real time where we are our Facebook and Instragram pages may be a little more accurate. Both are @fivelittlewanderlings

Hello!! Did you forget about us? I must admit, updating a travel blog is a tiny, weeny, little bit of a chore (especially given our current platform which is SO GLITCHY! We may change it when we get a chance to). Leaving our family in Rhode Island proved to be a bit trickier than we thought. We are still experiencing some tears occasionally. But we finally did it (because we had almost zero winter clothes!) and now we are in sunny Tennessee! We've been moving at a rapid pace due to weather. Last night we stopped a little earlier than we could have and booked ourselves a hotel because --- tornadoes!!!! As far as I know, nothing touched down but we are New Englander's, we can't handle that tornadoes, so a secure building it was for us! I promise to get around (soon) to completing a blog about both our rapid descension into the southern lands and the second part of our Rhode Island stay. Until then, here is a selection of Micaiah's travel journal! Enjoy! ~ Mama of The Wanderlings, Maria


August 22, 2019

Today we went to Napatree Point, Rhode Island. It is a peninsula. It has crabs. I liked jumping in the waves.

September 8, 2019

My family and I visited RISD Museum. I saw a glass bench. It was made by Howard Ben Tre. It is thicker than my fist and has a bit of copper holding it together. The metal looks like the Statue of Liberty. It is hard and rigid and bumpy but the sides aren't sharp. It's like a big piece of sea glass.

September 29, 2019

My family and I went to Plimoth Plantations. There were animals that I liked. I pet and fed the cow and goat. The baby goat was the softest. The cow had big horns. I didn't get to pet the sheep. There were actors pretending to be from the olden days. They had real swords and knives and guns! They were pretending to be the pilgrims that came to settle in Massachusetts. My cousin, Maison, kept trying to get them to admit that they weren't from the olden days but he never got them to! They also had food from the olden days that we tried. It was good! We went to the Wampanoag village and saw a real longhouse. It's a like a house for a bunch of people. It is made out of bark from a particular tree. The bark has to be replaced after a few years. It had a few weapons, a bunch of hides for sleeping on, baskets and a cooking fire - one for every family that lived in the longhouse. They lived in longhouses in the winter. In the summer that went to a smaller house with just their family. It looks the same mostly but it is shorter. If I was alive at that time I would like to take care of the animals. I really like animals.

Here are some facts about Rhode Island that I learned while we were there.

• There are 800 native and non-native species in Rhode Island 
• The leatherback sea turtle is found in RI and it is endangered. 
• Roger Williams named it Rhode Island in 1644.  

Here are some pictures of me and my family in Rhode Island (and Massachusetts and Connecticut).

 This is me lying down on the glass bench. 

You can see the copper and texture of the glass. It was a little rigid and bumpy.

This is a tiny crab that I found. It is missing one arm.

This is the summer house (not the longhouse). I am sitting on animal hides.

This is not the longhouse, it's the summer house. It has two doors so you can come in from each side. The longhouse looks similar to this but it's darker (and longer!).

This is the cow that I liked to pet and feed at the Plimoth Plantation. It was caged.

This is my cousin trying to make the actor admit that he is from the newer days, not the olden days.

This is me and my brother at the grist mill. They were grinding corn with a stone and a water wheel.

This is the mill behind me. That's the water wheel.

This is me next to a giant cat.

This is huckleberry. I went on an identification tour and learned that huckleberries have stars in the middle. They are different from a blueberry.

This is a wild blueberry. It has a little ruffle instead of the star. 

This is me skateboarding at a skatepark and I just went down a steep ramp. We try to stop at every skatepark we see. We are doing A LOT of skateboarding (or roller blading). 

We went to the Pez store in Connecticut. I am pretending to be a giant Pez dispenser. They had like over a thousand Pez dispensers from the olden days and they had the biggest Pez dispenser in the world.

That's it for now! ~ Micaiah