Scavenger Hunt!
Apr. 19th, 2025 08:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sorcyressToday I had a good morning of ADVENTURES!
I am visiting Tuesday in Providence, and ke found out about EscapeRhodeIsland's Eggscape scavenger hunt! (There was also an egg hunt which we mostly didn't participate in). The scav turned out to have ten locations to visit throughout downtown PVD: six local businesses, three interesting clocks, and a set of coordinates that led to some pretty great mushroom murals.
It was a really nice adventure through the town! We came in third, but we came in first in our hearts, mostly because we weren't at all treating it like a competition, we were treating it as a nice stroll through the city. After, we wound up chatting with Dizz and Chase who run the place for a goodly while, about internet culture and cool scavenger hunts and the like.
The weather was absolutely perfect for a long walk outside. It was sunny, but not brutally so, deliciously breezy without being chilly, and warm and not-too-humid. Hats off to the showrunners for getting us such a good day! Of the six locations, Tuesday and I had definitely been to one of them before (the Weird Lovecraft Bookstore in the PVD arcade!) but most of them were new-ish, and a few definitely felt like places to visit again in the future! Mostly it was just really nice to connect to the community so much, and get to visit a bunch of very local shops.
Afterwards, we got sammiches at Geoff's, and then strolled slowly back home, sitting sometimes to enjoy the sunshine and snuggling each other a bit. It is so good to get to hold hands with a pretty partner while you walk through the spring weather! It was also lovely to get to see lots of murals and interesting graffiti, and other nice bits of the city. I'm slightly regretting not having brought my camera!
We had a very lazy afternoon, to make up for the fact that we got up at like 7:30am on a weekend in order to make it to the hunt on time. Lots of lying in bed with the window open, enjoying the breeze and snuggling and napping. Eventually we woke up enough to have snacks, which turned into dinner when we actually looked at the clock.
Now I've settled in to write words and hang out online, and Tuesday is checking in on ker local puzzle-hunt team as they do a different big puzzle-hunt (which ke apparently did last weekend). Tomorrow I think we have no plans at all, which probably means playing rock band and watching telly and maybe going on another good walk outside. On Monday I have to return to Boston, which turns out to probably be the worst timing known to man (I have been so good about not traveling anywhere on marathon Monday for so many years...) and then on Tues I take a bus to BurlingtonVT for a few days to wander around a different city with a different partner. Then back to Massachusetts for NEFFA and back home somehow on Sunday. No sleep at all, just straight into work again.
Still, I am glad to have some vacation time, and doubly glad that at least some of that time is being wrapped in sunshine and spring breezes.
~Sor
MOOP!
I am visiting Tuesday in Providence, and ke found out about EscapeRhodeIsland's Eggscape scavenger hunt! (There was also an egg hunt which we mostly didn't participate in). The scav turned out to have ten locations to visit throughout downtown PVD: six local businesses, three interesting clocks, and a set of coordinates that led to some pretty great mushroom murals.
It was a really nice adventure through the town! We came in third, but we came in first in our hearts, mostly because we weren't at all treating it like a competition, we were treating it as a nice stroll through the city. After, we wound up chatting with Dizz and Chase who run the place for a goodly while, about internet culture and cool scavenger hunts and the like.
The weather was absolutely perfect for a long walk outside. It was sunny, but not brutally so, deliciously breezy without being chilly, and warm and not-too-humid. Hats off to the showrunners for getting us such a good day! Of the six locations, Tuesday and I had definitely been to one of them before (the Weird Lovecraft Bookstore in the PVD arcade!) but most of them were new-ish, and a few definitely felt like places to visit again in the future! Mostly it was just really nice to connect to the community so much, and get to visit a bunch of very local shops.
Afterwards, we got sammiches at Geoff's, and then strolled slowly back home, sitting sometimes to enjoy the sunshine and snuggling each other a bit. It is so good to get to hold hands with a pretty partner while you walk through the spring weather! It was also lovely to get to see lots of murals and interesting graffiti, and other nice bits of the city. I'm slightly regretting not having brought my camera!
We had a very lazy afternoon, to make up for the fact that we got up at like 7:30am on a weekend in order to make it to the hunt on time. Lots of lying in bed with the window open, enjoying the breeze and snuggling and napping. Eventually we woke up enough to have snacks, which turned into dinner when we actually looked at the clock.
Now I've settled in to write words and hang out online, and Tuesday is checking in on ker local puzzle-hunt team as they do a different big puzzle-hunt (which ke apparently did last weekend). Tomorrow I think we have no plans at all, which probably means playing rock band and watching telly and maybe going on another good walk outside. On Monday I have to return to Boston, which turns out to probably be the worst timing known to man (I have been so good about not traveling anywhere on marathon Monday for so many years...) and then on Tues I take a bus to BurlingtonVT for a few days to wander around a different city with a different partner. Then back to Massachusetts for NEFFA and back home somehow on Sunday. No sleep at all, just straight into work again.
Still, I am glad to have some vacation time, and doubly glad that at least some of that time is being wrapped in sunshine and spring breezes.
~Sor
MOOP!