On Easter Sunday we left cloudy Plymouth behind to find the sun over Narragansett Bay before heading back to Massachusetts for some Easter family time. We had three destinations in mind, and then exploring until sundown.

We had an early dinner at the Moulin Rouge restaurant in Tiverton. We had discovered it only a few weeks previously, and Lorna has dreamed about the Crepes Suzettes ever since.  Crepes Suzettes are a deceptively simple dish made with good ingredients and a lot of flair: a couple of crepes, some orange-butter, and some Grand Marnier, flambeed tableside and served hot - exquisite! The dinner was excellent and the dessert was as imagined.

We crossed the bridge to our old friend Blithewold afterward, where the daffodils were in full bloom. The weather was a little cool, but not too cool to explore the grounds and the house for a good hour or more.

Then we went down to Newport, stopping briefly at the well-stocked Vicker's Liquors for a bottle of Maine Meadworks Dry Mead to share with family that evening, before continuing over the Pell Bridge to Jamestown on Conanicut Island.

The south end of Jamestown has many grand homes, many of which are for sale. Not being in the market for a grand home, we pressed on to the Beavertail State Park and Beavertail Light at the southern tip of the island. As usual there were kite-flyers enjoying the breeze and the view.

We were in no mood to follow that bucolic scene with the congestion of Warwick and Providence, so we crossed over to pretty Wickford and then took the long arc of Route 102 through Coventry and Chepachet and north to the MA border, where we crossed the state line and headed to Milford for the family gathering.