Waterfire - Flames on the River (part 3)

Our first morning in Providence we spent.......can you guess how?..... sleeping. About 2 pm we decided we should get out and get some sunlight to try and help us adjust. So we went for a walk up into the historic part of town - Benefit Street. Very nice. georgous buildings, tree lined streets. We dropped into an Irish pub (Ri Ra) for a late lunch. Again Lexie was a major hit as she sat on the table - the waiters decided that they needed one (i.e. a Lexie) as a centerpiece for each table. Though when they went to clean up the table they may have changed their mind. The mess that she made wouldn't have been fun to clean up - she decided that she wanted to share the salad that I was having, and by sharing I mean grabbing handfuls , shoving them in her mouth and then spitting them back out. Lovely hey! We headed over to the Mall to try and get some information about phones, and in doing so found the nearest Dairy Queen. Mmmmm........... Blizzards. Then back to the hotel to rest up before heading out to "Waterfire". Waterfire is a attraction put on by Providence where they build bonfires all down the canals running through the centre of town. The bonfires are built in braziers that sit up out of the water and in these the fires burn. They then pipe music in, set up lots of food stalls, get some bands playing and you have a festival. All the time there are gondolier rides up and down the canal (you pay for these of course) and there are people in fancy dress going around in boats as well. Every so often the "fuel boat" will come along past the braziers adding more wood to keep the fires burning.

It was actually really great, we wandered along the canal soaking up the atmosphere. Lexie missed the whole thing. We put her to sleep before we left the hotel and put her into the pram and she slept through the entire thing, only waking up when we stopped at Subway on our way home to pick up dinner. I know Subway, but hey, our hotel room didn't have a kitchen let alone a fridge!! So something quick and easy was the ideal choice. We hope to put up photos soon once we get the camera and the computer up and running - it's a little hard on the laptop.