Have you ever been in a mansion that all the floors laid out on the ground are over a mile long? I have at The Breakers Mansion in Newport, Rhode Island. Even though Rhode Island is the smallest state, we were still rushing around trying to get everything finished on our agenda. We went to an aquarium, played mini golf, and ate at Iggy's.
The Breakers
is an old, eighteenth century mansion owned by the Vanderbilts, who owned one of the first railroads. That's how they obtained their fortune. Their mansion is called Breakers because it is right next to the ocean. You can take a hour, maybe two, tour of the mansion. When you first see the mansion, they have a huge gate in front of their driveway. Then you see the five story house with two story pillars in front. When you walk inside the mansion, you first note the architecture (and the titanic size). Throughout the house they have different architecture from Greek to Italian. They have seventy rooms in the house, and it cost one hundred and seventy million dollars. It was built on thirteen acres and is the most visited attraction in Rhode Island. Cliff Walk is just that a cliff walk. It winds along the Atlantic Ocean. You're able to walk along mansions on the other side. That's when you first see The Breakers. It's about a three and a half mile hike. Not very exciting if you're looking for an adventurous hike, but if you like scenery and huge houses, then it's pretty cool.
Iggy's is a Rhode Island famous restaurant. You can get some really good seafood there. I got the calamari which is also known as octopus, although what you really need to get are fried doughboys. You can get them with regular sugar, brown sugar, and cinnamon. It tastes like heaven deep fried into a ball.
Save the Bay Aquarium is one of my favorite aquariums. It was a small, four room aquarium. The animals weren't much, a couple of fish and crabs. The real beauty was the touch tank. They had horseshoe crabs you could pick up along with hermit crabs, starfish, and shells. They had an attendant you could ask questions about everything in the tank. My favorite part was holding the five inch horseshoe crab.
Mulligan's mini golf held a Donate Life event. The had two courses: a red and a blue course. Chloe and I watched two different holes. Chloe watched hole eleven on the blue. I watched the eighteenth hole on the red. If anyone got a hole in one on those two holes, they were entered in a raffle to win a gift card to a restaurant.
Rhode Island has many things to do. Most of it was fun, too. Some of which are an aquarium, beaches, restaurants, and no offense, houses longer than the state.
The Son
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