paulapes' VirtualTourist Home Page

Well, it's official...I am retired! My husband and I have moved to Maine (West Paris) . Please check my pages as there are changes and additions here and there, particularly in my Maine pages.....and thanks for visiting!

My good VT buddy Geoff Wright and his lovely wife Mary came to visit us for the weekend on October 3, 2003 when we were still in Rhode Island. We enjoyed their visit and loved meeting them. Took Geoff and Mary around Providence and got them some "cawfee"! :o) Mary loved our accent! Anyway, my other VT buddy, Pawtuxet, and I, took Geoff and Mary for a tour of Providence and Waterfire....we had a great time. (I, of course, forgot to bring my camera with me, so see pics of the visit on Pawtuxet's RI page) she did a great job--and Janet, thanks for the tour!

I hope you enjoy my pages as much as I've enjoyed making them. I'm still working on them though....after the VT changeover some of my tips and pictures went AWOL and I've got to go through things, figure out what's missing and straighten them out. I've just recently fixed my Massachusetts pages and added some tips to that, and also fixed my Pompeii page (and added more to that), so I hope you'll check those out.

Lovers of the English language might enjoy this .....

There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other
two-letter word, and that is "UP."

It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the
list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP ?

At a meeting, why does a topic come UP? Why do we speak UP and why are
the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to
write UP a report?
We call UP our friends And we use it to brighten UP a room, polishUP
the silver, we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock
UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car.

At other times the little word has real special meaning. People stir UP
trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think
UP excuses.
To be dressed is one thing but to be dressed UP is special. And
this UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is
stopped UP .
We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night. We
seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP !

To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look UP the word UP in
the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost
1/4th of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions.
If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many
ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you
don't give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more.

When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP. When the sun comes
out we say it is clearing UP . When it rains, it wets UP the
earth.
When it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry UP .

One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP,
for now my time is UP , so...
Time to shut UP .....!

Oh...one more thing:
What is the first thing you do in the morning & the last thing you do at
night? -------
U -- P!