Time For a Celebration and Time to Go Home

While even the Stiletto City cops brought out their cameras to catch all the action at the Lakers Championship Parade yesterday, Plot and Duck were winding down their last full day in Providence.



The thing is, every trip starts with a "Great to Be Going" and ends with a "Time to Come Home."



Downtown Providence has a small river and a collection of statues honoring veterans from all wars, primarily Ambrose Burnside, a Union general during the Civil War, who must have come from here. Times must be tough in Providence, though, because there doesn't seem to be much commerce taking place, except from kids standing on street corners looking ready to dart into a dark corner at the drop of a hat. Many vets, whose service is honored by those statues, seem to be sleeping on park benches and wandering around the bus station.



But Providence may only look that way because it's time to go home. It was tempting to think taking a few more days in Brooklyn, but since the Plotniks are using up a Southwest frequent flier ticket, and SW still has another few weeks of flying only out of Islip Airport on Long Island which is a major schlep to get to from Brooklyn, and since Plot has three plays to review this weekend, and since The Great PD has to work on Saturday and BZWZ's schedule has been completely disrupted by the events of the past few weeks -- it's time to go home.



It was fun to spend the last night in Providence with BZ and Ben but it's time to go home.



It was fun to be in Brooklyn with The Great PunkyDunky, The Great FiveHead and Brooklyn Bellybone, but it's time to go home.



Go Lakers! And go East Coast Plotniks! We'll be back very soon.