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Family Adventures, Photo-A-Day

Seeing Tom Papa at Foxwoods

entertainment at the Tin Peddler
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Tonight Allison and I went to see the comedian Tom Papa at Foxwoods. We hadn’t been there in a while, I think the last show we saw was last year with Gabriel Iglesias. Foxwoods is a great venue for comedy because it is easy to get to, plenty of parking and the theater is nice for comedy. We’ve seen a few comedians there over the years. We had never seen Tom Papa live and it was really funny. Well, most of the show was funny but the very end was full of continuous laughter.

Our Meal at the Tin Peddler

We tried to get reservations for some of the restaurants within Foxwoods but they were all booked up solid. Instead I mapped out the route down to Foxwoods and took a look at all the restaurants along the way. We found one, The Tin Peddler, that looked good. Allison asked me to make reservations and I am glad that I did because when we got there we found out that the place was celebrating their two year anniversary and they had a live band playing. The three piece band did a lot of fun covers and we were seated right in front of them. It was loud and had to have a conversation but the food was excellent and we were able to eat and get to our show on time.

After the Tom Papa Show

We had a very nice time at the show. There was no chance to grab a photo of Tom because phones were not allowed during the show. I did try and take a selfie with him in the background after the show but I was not quick enough. That is okay because the fun was seeing the show and laughing at the great jokes.

Family Adventures, Food, Photo-A-Day

Comedy Night with Ben Brainard

With Ben Brainard
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Tonight Allison and I went to see Ben Brainard at the Comedy Connection in Providence. Ben Brainard is a comedian that we discovered at the start of the pandemic. He was doing skits as if he was a different state talking to the federal government regarding how they were rolling out the vaccine mandates. When he did the MA character we were hooked. We’ve been watching him ever since and when we heard that he was coming to Rhode Island we had to go and see him.

Before we went out to the Comedy Connection I picked Andy up from camp and he told me about his day. He had fun today because he was able to decorate cupcakes and he’s been learning how to decorate cupcakes all this past year at the Creative Sewing Studio. So he has some skills already. He asked if he could have a third color of frosting so that he could create raccoon cupcakes. So he got black, white and grey. They came out really cute.

Andys Raccoon cupcakes

Before we went to the show we had dinner at the Black Duck Tavern next door to the venue. This was a nice place with good food. We got some hot wings that had buffalo, maple and siracha, they were quite good. We also got some chicken and waffles which were also good.

black duck tavern dinner

Allison got an iced tea old fashioned and the ice cube had a duck in it. She took the photo and traced the duck with the app. The ice cube was not yellow.

duck ice

After Ben’s show, which was very funny, we took photos with the host and also one of Ben’s Tik Tok friends who did 5 minutes of comedy.

With Ben Brainard and friends

It was a fun night and we had a great time seeing live comedy.