my weekend in Providence

This past weekend, Natasha and I hopped on the Mega Bus up to New England. First stop, Providence, to see Tony in "The Lion King"...

Natasha (left) and myself, assuming the position of real Lion Kings

                          

Tony, post amazing performance, and still looking dap dap dapper.

In NYC, we don't get to experience that wonderful suburban architecture, that is, THE MALL.  So we ventured forth to the Providence version, where at one particular kiosk, they were selling hand painted hermit crabs. So, I mean, you could take home a hermit crab with the Batman emblem on his shell.... totally normal.

     On Saturday we headed to Boston to visit Natasha's brother, Dylan. We traveled via the commuter rail. I took some of these photos you are seeing with my new Hipstamatic app. Me likey.

Massachusetts out the window....or Rhode Island.

Here is the wonderful Dylan, with his baby kitty Gina...or as Natasha says "Geeeeeeeeeeena"

Natasha wanted to laugh in the snow. So she did.

On the way back from Boston yesterday, I got to take some great pictures out the window. I have a thing for Sunday evening cold winter sunsets...

and the light...

it set my hair on fire.

All in all, we had a really great weekend. As per usual, I may have had too much to drink. And probably smoked too many cigarettes, but that happens from time to time.
On a personal note, being in Providence was sort of haunting. For me, that city represents the beginning of a very certain time in my life. It was a transitional time where I also fell in love with someone. And then that journey began and ended.
Places, cities, they all change. And we leave them, and we come back. And sometimes, we're surprised by what a bar in a hotel can make you remember. Memories that you thought you had forgotten about, they are still there. Sometimes we just have to shake the dust off, and go back.