Providence Day Seven: $1.99 Movies, Portuguese Mussels and a NEW GUITAR

It was raining, first thing in the morning yesterday when Plot took this shot out of BZ's kitchen window at the house next door. It kept raining.



...but that didn't stop BZ, Plot and Duck from going to the Providence Antique Mall. Plot wasn't looking for anything until he spotted this Baby Taylor half-sized guitar. He's been looking for a travel guitar for years and now he's got it.



It was the only kind of antique experience Plotnik enjoys -- lots of little stalls to look through where the border between junk and antique is blurred. The little guitar will sound great with some new strings and maybe even a pickup put on it.

There is a $1.99 Movie Theater up in East Providence, so after they got home from the antique mall, P D and BZ went to see "Whip It," an entertaining roller derby movie, which they all recommend highly. It's a fun story with Ellen Page, the girl from 'Juno' as the lead.

Afterwards, after all this heavy Italian food, it was time for some heavy Portuguese food at Madeira in East Prov. Mussels. Shrimp. Lombadinhos. Everyone in the restaurant seriously jumbo-sized. A loud Portuguese wedding going on upstairs. A waiter who was charming but barely competent. A long wait for water. Fantastic sauces. These fries that looked and tasted like potato chips but still managed to soak up those sauces. And somehow even cheaper than the cheap Italian restaurant last night. Plot hasn't figured out yet how that happened.