On Sunday mornings, there is a flea market in Charlestown. You can't beat poking around all the deals to be had. I carefully selected five glass beads for a bracelet. John checked out all the books and musical instruments there. Peter found a few tools. I even got a 6" cast iron skillet there! (Once home, Peter was very considerate, using a rotating wire brush to get off all of the rust and coating; now all I need to do is season it!)
At the flea market and at many other locations in South County, Del's Lemonade
( http://www.dels.com/ ) is available from trucks. This is a frozen lemonade concoction, with little pieces of lemon peel occasionally found. Delicious....I don't see any chance of gluten contamination here!
From the flea market, we made our way to Galilee, RI, where we had lunch at Champlin's Seafood. ( http://champlins.com/ ) The clam cakes are excellent, but not for John. We ordered four of them for me and Peter, but John? He ventured into a new area: a steamed lobster!
Eating whole animals has not been my life's mission.....actually, I characterize myself as a "vegetarian wannabe." You know, would love to be a vegetarian but don't because no one else would join me and also because I don't believe it's immoral to eat meat. I'm just not a huge meat eater.
John dove right in and chomped away. I glanced over from time to time, but concentrated on my baked flounder, which has no eyes or feet or whatever to remind me of what it actually is.
An hour or more later, we knew the lobster and the steamed potatoes were fine. We had walked down to the beach and observed the new boardwalk. It's very nice!
We had dessert in a place called "Brickley's Ice Cream," in Narragansett.
( http://www.brickleys.com/ ) They were great about taking a clean scoop and getting ice cream from the back room instead of the well-used containers in the front. Our server handed it to us with the standard precaution, something to the effect of, "we do our best to use clean equipment and avoid allergens, but there is always a chance there can be some cross-contamination." We smiled and took the chance. It was fine. And we have always considered Brickley's to be one of the best ice creams in New England.
From Brickley's we drove to Wickford, which is a beautiful little historic village.
( http://www.wickfordvillage.org/ ) There are lots of window boxes with flowers in them. Quaint shops. The Olde Narragansett Church. Perfect for strolling around.
As we were leaving to head home, we noted an area of water lilies. At least I think they are water lilies. I had to take a picture!
