After North Carolina, we headed up to Maryland, my home state, to start a bit of real touristy stuff. Jaime and Jeff were some awesome (even though they didn't make us any waffles!). We stayed with them for a few nights outside of Baltimore and used that has a starting point to Baltimore and Washington DC.
The Inner Harbor in Baltimore was great. We walked around and saw the USS Constellation, the world's biggest cell phone (called Adam's sister from it), and walked up Federal Hill. That's where the panorama up above is from, overlooking the harbor.
Fell's Point was also pretty cool, with the shops, a botanical garden we peeked into down an alleyway, and tons of great looking murals. We also stopped by to see the studio of Ace of Cakes, from the Food Network, on the way home.
For the Fourth of July, we headed out to a barbecue at some friends' of our hosts. The kids (geez, kids are a lot of hard work) got to play on the slip-and-slide. Burgers and 'dogs aplenty before we drove out near Westminster for the fireworks display. It was probably one of the longest ones I'd ever seen. Adam reported that he may have become a bit bored, but I'm not sure celebrating our freedom and independence with a dazzling assortment of fiery explosions could ever get boring. ;-)
Before we continued the journey to New England, we had to make a stop in our nation's capital. We most definitely hit up the Smithsonian's Air & Space museum. We saw tons of historic aircraft and learned a bunch about planes, space, and exploration. The planetarium had a great show about black holes. An interesting tidbit: parachutes were originally developed and used in WWI by spotters in observation balloons. It wasn't until after the German's came up with more compact designs that airplane pilots had them. Our next stop was at the International Spy Museum. A great exhibit of stealth and trickery. They showcased tons of spy gadgets, methods, and bios of spy activity around the world. It was there that we learned that hot-air balloons were first used by spies in the Civil War. I think if I were to head back, I'd definitely want to do their "spy" tours around the city.
Well, check out the new pictures. I have them linked on the right side of the site. The next post will be from Connecticut, visiting family and friends on our way to New York City and Boston.
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In New York, be sure and get cheesecake at Lindy's. I just read a review by someone belly-aching it was expensive and the hot-dogs were terrible. Umm NYC = Expensive, and by all means let's go to a restaurant world famous for it's desserts and order a hotdog... Some people! If you want any more suggestions for NYC just ask, but truly it has so very many things to see and do that it'd be impossible not to be amazed and have fun. I will mention a little sidewalk cafe at one end of Time's Square (don't remember the name) that I stumbled into one night after drinking at the bars, and lo & behold it was full of musicians and performers from the theaters relaxing after their shows. VERY cool!
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