Went Here This Weekend...

[Sean]

Took the wife, sister and 2 daughters for Mother's Day in Newport, R.I.

We arrived Saturday night and just got back today (Monday).   We toured some mansions and went to a nice brunch on Sunday.  My wife's favorite (as is most everybody's) is the Breakers...  but I like the Chateau Sur Mer pictured above.  It was the most decadent of the homes in Newport until the Vanderbilts started building the uber-huge 'cottages' like the Breakers....

[Sean]

More images...

 

[Sean]

This is Carey Mansion, which until recently was being leased in part by Salve Regina University-----and unfortunately has NOT been part of the Preservation Society's toured estates... The mansion is supposedly being renovated by family and I HOPE it becomes a toured property soon.

This is Barnabas Collins' 'house' in the Dark Shadows TV series....

[Sean]

The Breakers (at which my 3-year old whispered to he 7-year old sister:  "Let's pretend we live here..."  as they ran in the backyard...)

 

The gates above are probably 50 feet high... and they STLL couldn't keep riff-raff like me out!

[Flower]

Looks like a fine weekend ... 

[BlackLagoon]

Good stuff, def looks like a fun time.

Barnabas picked a damn nice place to live!

[Sean]

Thanks Flower & BL.... it was a great time.  The girls had a ball.  But then again they could have played with the combo safe in the suite for hours!  We got to swin in a heated pool that was 1/2 inside and 1/2 outside (there was a glass wall to swim under to pass through) and the facility had a movie theatre that was all ours for a 5:30pm movie with all the popcorn we could eat.  They were very well behaved in the mansions, though at one point my 3 year-old attempted to butt shuffle down the heart-shaped grand staircase at the Rose Cliff mansion which was the site for the Great Gatsby.



I had to physically stop her.

[charp13]

What a sweeeeet weekend! Sometimes I forget that places like that exist in the USA. It's so cool to explore these mansions and estates, but it's even better when there's a movie with all you can eat popcorn!

[Sean]

What a sweeeeet weekend! Sometimes I forget that places like that exist in the USA. It's so cool to explore these mansions and estates, but it's even better when there's a movie with all you can eat popcorn!

And the movie was..... 'Tangled'.     And I enjoyed it.  Everybody likes to pick which guy I look like most in the tavern scene. 

[FACTO2]

This is really cool.  Thank you for sharing those pics with us.

[Unknown Primate]

Great stuff!