The first day in Newport was rainy, so I didn't take any pictures (imagine that haha). We experienced a 15-minute dingy ride in a torrential downpour. We tried to keep dry underneath two umbrellas, but it didn't help with four people, one dog, and numerous bags. I'm not exaggerating when I say that we were soaking wet when we arrived at the boat. Luckily, we woke up to sunny weather the next morning :) We decided to take advantage of the weather before Sophie and Simon had to go to the train station to catch a ride back to NYC for their flight back to London. Therefore, we hiked the famous 3.5-mile Cliff Walk along Newport's cliffs. The Cliff Walk goes through the front yards of many of the famous mansions. The start of it that leads to the ocean has forty steps, each step named for someone lost at sea.
The Breakers is the most famous mansion (see below), previously owned by the Vanderbilts. When the 70-room mansion was completed in 1895, it cost more than $10 million to build! It is now owned by the Rhode Island Preservation Society. Another famous mansion previously owned by the Astors was recently sold to the winner of the America's Cup Sailing Race. 
Morgan came along, and she did a great job jumping across all the huge rocks.
After Simon and Sophie left, we had a full day of laundry and grocery shopping. However, we managed to find time to go to the White Horse Tavern, which is the nation's oldest continuously operating tavern . It was granted its liquor license in 1673.
We ate dinner in the "haunted room." When the tavern also served as a boarding room, a man died in that room. Everything he owned was stolen, so his identity was never discovered. It is rumored that he still haunts the tavern. The room definitely looked haunted!
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