Summer in New England - Roadtrip 2012 - Day 9

This morning when we left from the hotel it was 84 degrees at 8:15 in the morning! We went over quite a few toll roads as we head south out of Maine and into New Hampshire and then Massachusetts. We made it into Rhode Island, which offered up some beautiful coastal views. Before we went to the beach we first stopped by a shopping center in Newport with the Knitting Corner, a yarn shop where Katy bought some new yarn, and Island Books, where I bought a book about the periodic table of the elements that I wanted. Our next stop was the Newport beach, where we parked for a little while, built a sandcastle, played in the surf, and walked along the beach. After the beach we headed to western Massachusetts toward Northampton, where a huge yarn store, Webs, is located. Webs had a giant store with every kind of yarn imaginable, but in addition, they had a warehouse in the back with bags of discounted bulk yarn that you could buy by the bag-full. Katy bought some yarn for herself and for a friend and we went to settle in for the night at a hotel in nearby Chicopee, Massachusetts. Tomorrow we get to go see our Brooklyn friends and their new babies! Here are some of today's pictures (mostly road signs because we took a lot of phone pictures today)!