We finished out a long day of touristy stuff in Newport with a cruise aboard the Amazing Grace. An hour long tour of the bay was a perfect ending to a great day. We toured an amazing mansion, picnic on the water, lots of sights, and dinner on the wharf!
We spent the afternoon in Providence, RI seeing some sights before heading to our final destination of Newport. Providence is an interesting city. It appears to be undergoing a lot of building rehab in the downtown area, but it still has a long ways to go. Areas around Brown College, Federal Hill, and I'm sure others provide bright spots of amazing houses, buildings, and boutique stores and restaurants. By the advice of a friend we spent most of our time downtown. Enjoying lunch at Local 121, shakes at the Cuban Revolution, and a quick art stop at AS220. We arrived at our B&B and had dinner at the Brick Alley Pub and Restaurant.
According to the Science Museum of MN, the average American drinks 26 gallons of bottled water a year. That is about 416 8oz bottles of water. That adds up to a lot money! World Vision estimates that it can dig a well for $13,700. If 33 people gave up bottled water for a year and gave that money to World Vision a village could have a healthy and safe water source!
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A deep well fitted with a hand pump can provide up to 2,800 gallons of safe water a day to benefit as many as 300 people! In many communities, clean water lies hundreds of feet below layers of hard rock. Children have no choice but to walk long distances to find water that is often dirty and disease-ridden. When our drilling teams strike water, entire villages erupt in celebration because a clean water source can cut a community’s child mortality rate by as much as half. – Well page
I had to go to campus today to a Fed Ex. It was another hot and humid one. Like where you sweat by sitting around. Anyway this is from the Washington Ave bridge showing the Mississippi, skyline, and the 35W scraps.
On an extremely hot and humid day (heat index of 111) we ventured out to the Powderhorn Art Fair and joined the sweaty masses enjoying great art. It was hard to linger because it was so hot, but it was fun and we saw some great art!