Bahhhh harbahhhh (aka Bar Harbor) 6/29

The original plan for the day was to go to Acadia National Park and camp for the night. We did a slight change here. 

So we arrive in BH and go get some grub. Right before we go into the Ale House, we see one of those tourist stores that sells long sleeve shirts and sweaters. I'm thinking this is perfect bc we completely forgot to pack hoodies. Oh and hiking pants. Or anything to keep us warm. Don't ever let us pack your suitcase for you! 

So after filling our bellies (with delicious food I may add) we head to Acadia NP. And of course the one day we are there the fog has settled into a nice thick blanket. We got up to the highest point (1530 ft) and we look out to see...fog. It sucked. 

So instead of camping bc we thought the weather would stay blah, we found a $45 motel on Priceline. It had a great rating and people like it. So we book it. One night can't hurt anyone! 

Let me tell you about our "room". It had to be 10xqp and the bathroom was about the size of our walk-in closet at home. And I'm thinking WWAD? (What would Amy do?) but we booked it. So we were stuck. However it was super clean and it had a hot shower. 

We settled in and headed into downtown BH. First stop: BH brewing. We walk in thinking we'll do a beer tasting. Ummmm hello beer AND WINE! Needless to say we walked out w a bottle of wine and a 22oz bottle of beer. To be fair-- you paid $3 each for the beer tasting and $3 for the wine tasting each. They then gave u tickets that would equal $6 to spend in the store. So it was definitely worth it. 

Sidebar: it was completely sunny at this time. We were not very happy about that!! 

Downtown bay harbor is gorgeous. We took some great pics by the water. We even went to the historic area and took some pics! 

We finished the night with a yummy dinner of seafood and chowda! We made huge changes for Sunday but I think they'll work out! :) 

Portland 6/27&6/28

We were so excited to get to Maine! Neither of us had ever been before. :) also we got to stay w Jill and chad! Jill was my intern a few years ago. I taught w her mom, Joann in different grades. 

After settling it at Jill's, we took a ride to Allagash brewing. All they brew is Belgians, which is not our favorite. But who are we to turn down FREE tastings??? The white an table beer were actually both really good. However, they had a beer which aged in bourbon barrels. It was awful. 

When we finished here we headed to Sebago brewing. Their beers were delicious. They had quite a few IPAs. I am normally not an IPA fan, but these were real good. We did get stuck taking the tour though. I'm a firm believer that all brewery tours are the same. The only one I really want to go on is cigar city's. 

We had dinner w the whole family- minus Jenna (she was working). I ordered a lobstah roll and it was delicious. They actually could've just given me the lobster and skipped the bread. :) we finished the night hanging out at John and Joanne's house. It was def a great night. 

On Friday, we headed into downtown Portland. First stop was a place called Flatbreads. We got a pizza here. I can honestly say it was one of the best pizzas I have ever eaten. I wish we had one in spring hill! Next we walked to shipyard brewing. Amazing beer prices on their stuff! Also great 7 minute tour. Keep it short and simple. They even gave us a great amount of samples (hello lucky number 7). 

Aaron and I thought it was our American duty to contribute to the Maine economy. So we bought 12 22oz beer bottles. It was only $2.50 a pop and we cannot get that stuff in Florida! We got about 7 different ones (hello lucky 7 again) and then doubled up on a few. I walked out very happy. 

Friday night was full lobstah dinner night. We cooked full lobsters, potatoes and corn. Delicious is an understatement! It was Aaron's first time cracking a full one! The meat was so fresh and yummy. Everything about the meal was great. 

We had such a great time w the Palladinos and headed to Acadia national park today! 

P.S. I am so far ahead in my one class! And one week ahead in my other! On a roll! 

6/25 and 6/26- Vagrants!

We got up and left Rachel's Tuesday morning. We originally had the plan to stay in Boston Tuesday and Wednesday night. I had been to Boston 3 other times, so my only request was the Sam Adams brewery. Aaron had a few things but nothing crazy. Well...for some reason hotel prices were astronomical the two nights we wanted to stay. And there were zero hotels outside the area decently priced. So we decide to rough it out and camp. 

And normally I am all down for camping. But to be honest: who wants to camp and then get up to visit the big city (we had decided to do other things and JUST go downtown Wednesday)? But I agree bc we didn't have much of a choice.  So Tuesday we did historical site seeing. We first stopped at walden pond. Absolutely gigantic! Henry David Thoreau lived out there in isolation. And I'm thinking this guy is insane. Well when we get to the site of his cabin, you find out how not in isolation he lived. Really? 30 minutes from his parents? He still walked to a pub? Now I'm thinking isolation my rear! But nonetheless the area was gorgeous! 

Next we headed to concord to see the minute men monument. This historical park was super nice. We all know what a history fan I am-- not!! However, I had no idea who the minute men were-- probably pathetic right there! And the whole park was just amazing. Aaron then wanted to see Lexington bc it was on the way to the campground. Lexington= letdown. We were there for about 2 minutes. 

We head to the campground and set up shop. Since we literally have nothing to do we decide to hit the movies. We went and saw World War z w brad Pitt. On our way to the theater, I happen to notice the sea dog brewpub off the interstate. Yes and yes. The movie was really good. I definitely recommend seeing it! And they gave me a free kid's boom (the theater was just giving them away!) Aaron took one too-- hey Wendi! After the movies we hit the brewpub and got some delicious food. And each just had a beer-- me their blonde and Aaron their hazelnut porter. 

Camping was awful bc it was so damn hot. So while camping we booked a hotel for Wednesday night (we had the campground for two nights, but it was so cheap we didn't care ) So we woke up bright and early and got our stuff packed up. Aaron called the hotel and they were so nice they let us check in at 9:30 Wednesday morning. Now that is early checkin. We took our second showers of the morning and got into downtown. 

The Sam Adams brew tour was awesome. It was about an hour and included free samples! Our tour guide wa great--even though he made some Yankees jokes! Boo him! We then attempted to drive to where the Boston massacre site was. 

Sidebar: not that I want ppl to die, but did you know that only FIVE people died at this so called massacre? Weak. 

Anyways bc the streets of downtown Boston are made like a kindergarten drew them, we went to Harvard bc Aaron wanted to see it. We pretty much hung out in Cambridge all day. Now that was only bc we were meeting his friend Onder that night. Also, bc we forgot that harpoon was downtown and did tastings! :( 

However, I didn't mind bc I had been to Boston before and seen everything I wanted. I felt bad for Aaron who didn't get much site seeing done! 

We met up w Onder at like 5:30 and hung out all evening w him around Cambridge. We then went back to his place and met his girlfriend Amy-- she was working on a paper for her masters class which is why she didn't come out w us! 

We got back to the hotel at 10;45 and crashed from our lack of sleep the night before

Just want it to be known that I drove us all through downtown. And I was quite the driver! Lol I fit right in! 

Cape Cod Sunday/Monday

So our Sunday morning started w Persy's. My absolute favorite breakfast place (besides the breakfast club in Spring Hill-- calm down floridians)  Their grilled cornbread is TO DIE FOR! After this monster of a breakfast we headed back to the house to relax. 

So while we were here we started watching Catfished on MTV. It's a show about ppl who start dating online and then find out the person isn't who they said. Quite the interesting show! So now Gina is officially taping this for me bc the new season starts tomorrow. Thank you Gina Marie. 

Finally all of us slugs decided to head out. We went to the commons which is a bunch of shops and restaurants. We kind of just hopped around and had some drinks. Tim's sister jayme and her boyfriend joe joined us as well. We had such a great time! The boys played some bocce. The ladies chatted. To me it was a successful afternoon! We finished the night w a late dinner and some more drinks.  :) 

Today we again moved quite slowly. I mean this is the relaxing part of the vaca! Rae took me and Aaron (Tim had a golf outing for work-- super rough!) to cape cod brewery. We did a free tasting-- of course. We even chowed down on some hotdogs. 

This then led to lazy time-- who doesn't like lazy time?! We watched some bar rescue and laid around. Lazy pants Rachel took a naparoo! ;) again we dragged our lazy asses out of the house and headed to Asia for some dinner. I had an amazing sushi roll and a lot of Aaron's pork fried rice which was delicious.  

Now we are enjoying our last hours w Rae and Tim :( before we move on tomorrow! Oh and watching the hockey playoffs. Tim is on the edge of his seat! Below is Aaron's fortune which makes me happy! 

Da Cape day one 6/22

Aaron probably could've killed me this morning. I wanted to move! I was super pumped to see Rachel (who i haven't seen in 13 months-- ridiculous) and Tim (who I haven't seen in 2 years! Even more ridiculous!) we had such a great day w them! 

We started by heading to Mayflower brewing where the boys and I did some tasting. Rachel doesn't drink beer-- pretty dumb right??? :) They gave us each 6 4oz samples FOR FREE! Yes FREE! Then we took a quick brewery tour. From there, we journeyed to Plymouth Rock. It was GIGANTIC! Just kidding! It was the size of a love seat. But it was super cool to see! 

Then we headed to a place called Flynn that had great beer choices an yummy food. Hey grilled cheese! After, we headed to Tim's parents house. I LOVE Bill and Stace! And I met Tim's sister Jayme and her boyfriend joe. Such great people! Love the Hodgman clan! We need to make sure to see them again before we leave. 

Now we are just chillin on the couch at Tim and Rachel's place watching the bruins game! 

Friday 6/20- day from traffic Hades

We def moved much slower than we wanted to this morning. But the hotel dryer did not dry our clothes all the way and I wasn't taking them still "almost dry" (Aaron's words). So we leave the hotel about 11:30 and we miss our exit (it was unlabeled) 

And now we are trying to find our way onto the N Bronx expressway. Which apparently only has one way on for like a 15 mile radius and the streets will go one way and switch ways so you can no longer enter. We literally  circled the upper Bronx for about 25 minutes. After this adventure (and paying thirteen freaking dollars to go over theGeorge  Washington bridge), we were like No problemo! Just 120 miles to go! Yea try FOUR HOURS bc traffic was miserable. 

However, we persevered and got to mohegan sun. For those who do not know what it is, it is a massive casino. Think the Ceaser's palace of the east coast. Somehow we managed to find a $5 craps table. My first roll was pretty hot. But man this guy was rolling and he had to have rolled over 50 times. He made the table a lot of money. We should have invested in him sooner. But no worries. We both left up a little money. How often can you say that? I'll take 57 extra dollars please and thank you! 

So now we go back on the road (no drinking at the casino for us so no one worry!) and drove the last 50 miles to providence, ri. What a cool little city. I've been here for the airport and the mall but never to hang out. 

Shockingly, we hit the Union Brewery. Aaron has the vanilla bean porter and I had their light beer to start. We then shared a pint of their blueberry wheat beer-- delicious.

And a short little sidebar: I told Aaron he better recognize how lucky he is! Not only did the guy in NY tell me I had nice legs, some guy on my way to the bathroom told me I was really cute! Lol 😃

 On our way to the next brewery, we stopped at UNO Chicago. Luckily we did. The bartender was nice. We each had a pint and then he gave us each 2 samples of beer he wanted us to just try. Then when he gave  us the bill he was like "I gave you a discount bc anyone who travels like you guys sounds fun"   He charged us $4.31! Needless to say he got a hefty little tip! 

Finally made it to trinity brewing. We got some grub, which was mighty yummy. Their fried ravioli was sooooo amazing. But I had a pilsner and Aaron the imperial stout. Then we got a 6 sampler of the 6 beers we hadn't tried. I wasn't putting too much down at this time. 

We made our way back to our hotel, which was super close. I think like two blocks walking. Called it a night and now waiting on sleeping beauty! It's the weekend of Rachel and Tim!!!! 

Final day in the NYC 6/20

Thursday was a slow moving day to start. I had homework and we did not have too much left that we needed to do! So after slowly making our way out, we started our day by hitting the highline. The high line are old raised rail tracks that have been turned into a walking area. They planted plants all around and have benches for people to relax on. Some people were up there having a picnic. It was nice. 

After that we took the metro to the natural history museum. Super cool museum. Super ridiculous entrance. The smithsonian is free. You walk through security and then go on your way. Not in NYC. The met is technically free, as is the Nat history museum. But they make you wait in these ridiculous lines and have prices posted. However, in small print it says: suggested donation. Sneaky basterds. We waited in line for a free museum yesterday for 30 minutes. I'm sorry- that's absolutely ridiculous! However, there was a super cool google display of students making the google homepage! 

After going through the museum we went through Central Park to get to the east side. From there we were on the hunt for pizza. We found a place called Roma's (thank you yelp!) and it was yummy! I got a slice of white pizza and him buffalo chicken pizza. We got 5 garlic knots and two bottles of water for $10. It was the cheapest meal ever! 

We finally made it to the Jewish museum. Wonderful museum. So much stuff to see! But we moved a little quick bc it was time to get to YANKEE STADIUM!!! 

Love the stadium. Didnt like the game. :( big loss. And of course the moment we sit down- a student sits behind us. As in a student from Florida. Who Aaron had this year! How does that even happen????? 

But New York was wonderful, but I sure as heck would never live here. Too much all the time?  No thanks! I'll stick to wanting to live in Alexandria so I can travel into DC! :) 

NYC day 2 6/19

Today we spent our second day in NYC. I was pooped this morning. It's bc we are slowly getting old! 😃 just as we came downstairs this morning the hotel shuttle was just about to leave for penn station so that saved us ten minutes of walking-- which was nice for Aaron's old feet. 

First stop was the MET! The met was just overwhelming. Wonderful- but overwhelming. We only stayed for a short time. However, they had a really cool special exhibit that was photographs from the civil war. It was very cool. But there was no photos allowed. :(

We then took a home to the Guggenheim. What a waste of time and money! Half the museum was closed but they still wanted to charge 12 a person. And after we went in it was modern art-  which needless to say we do not like. So after ummmm 2 minutes in there we headed to the Jewish museum. Oh Jewish museum why are you only closed on Wednesdays? This was my third attempt at a Jewish museum in three cities and it has been closed every time. But we will go tomorrow. 

We then walked to Rockefeller which I'm assuming is much cooler at Christmas time. Finally took a break in Bryant park which was huge, crowded and awesome. They had bocce courts, ping pong tables and I'm sure more but that's all we saw! 

After hanging around we traveled to Brooklyn to meet my aunt Lisa at her school. We then went to east meadow to have dinner w her, uncle grant and the kids! We are heading back now on the rail! Tomorrow Jewish museum, Alice statue and natural history! 

Oh yes we went to the NBC store and I took a pic w a giant Dwight Schrute! 

NYC day one 6/18

Our day started w me driving to Newark (where our hotel is). And I'm thinking "Me drive on 95??? Scary pants!" However the traffic was so dead it was an easy ride. So we get to the hotel and we leave the car to park. So Aaron starts telling me about how we should've taken pics of the car before we gave it to them in case they mess it up. And I think Fantastic! I'll think about this for three days now! ( and I actually haven't til I typed it right now. 

Anyways... Our hotel let us check in nice and early, which was awesome. 

So we get settled and do the 10 min walk to Newark penn station. A nice 20 min ride into the city--yes please!!! We have a nice smooth ride, come out of the backside of Madison square garden and NOISE! Just people and cars and horns. I can honestly say I've never experienced anything like that!  First stop was Empire State Building-- or I should say it was supposed to be. So we start heading north and run into Times Square. Not the worst mistake bc it was on the "list". 

Sidebar: as you probably figured the list is stuff we wanted see. Or as Aaron calls it- "Stuff Dana wants to see!" However, I would like to defend myself here. There were things on there we both wanted to see...and some "extras"! 

Anyways, so we see Times Square and high step it back to the Empire State Building. Ok. Let me be honest. I get that we are in New York. And I didnt mind paying $25 to go up the eps. However, that ticket better sure as heck get me to the tippy top. But oh no. It only gets you to floor 86. If you  want to go to floor 102 that would be another $17!! I'm sorry what??? Because I'm sure you're not making a kagillion dollars off our $25 from the zillion of people here. Tricky tricky esb! 

On the plus side. They did have a brewery in the bottom. We will take the sampler please. (Which was delicious!)

Now, for those who watched Sex and the City you will understand. I wanted to see Carrie Bradshaw's stoop. They say she lives on 73rd, but this is not the stoop/building they used bc well... The address they give on the show does NOT have a stoop. The building they use is 66 perry st in Greenwich. So like a trooper Aaron heads there with me. And you wouldn't believe it but we were not the only ones there to take pics! See me below being quite unfashionable (unlike SJP and wonderful Carrie-- but it was raining just to defend myself!) by the stoop. 

So now we head to the World Trade Center. We just saw the building and took pics. We did not go in the "museum". Aaron didnt want to and I think it would be too sad. So we headed to Wall St. As we were walking there some awesome old man said to me: "Nice legs!" Ha! What a nice old Jewish man! 

Thanks to hurricane sandy Ellis island and the statue were not doable. But have no fear we walked to battery park in the rain to snap what lousy pictures we could! 

Now soaked to the bone and have walked probably 6 miles for the day we headed back to the hotel. It was a great day with a lot crossed off "The list!"  

Philly Part Dos 6/17

So today we got up super early so we could drive into downtown Philly early. We wanted to be at Independence Hall visitor center by 8:30 to get tickets for the earliest tour at IH possible! We pretty easily get up, grab some breakfast and head out. We are on 95 at 7:33 (at least according to Aaron!). And we knew we would hit traffic. But by the time he dropped me off outside IH to get tickets it was 8:23! EIGHT TWENTY-THREE!  Insanity!

**Before I go on, I want to boast that we worked out last night bc we got to the hotel so early. I know that might not seem like too much however, on our trip last year we had THREE successful workouts. Last nights= 3! What what?!!??**

Anyways, back to IH. So I get in line, thinking yes. 9am tour here we come. Um no. I get to the front and I said: "Two tickets for your earliest tour!" And the guys behind the counter says, "That's at 10." I was like are you freaking serious? But of course I took them. Forget about the money Blaz just went and put in the meter. We will just add more right?

So in the meantime of aimless wandering we find ourselves in Washington Square. And for those who do not know thousands of people are buried under Washington Square. When people died in the war or in town, they would just literally toss their bodies over there. Aaron claims it is no different than a cemetary, which is true. However, at least I know whose area I am walking on then you know? Bodies just piled up where you walk.

After a little more wandering, we head to our 10am tour. We tried to sneak in with the 9:45 group, but this old man who worked there was onto us. We wound up going to the East building where they kept replicas of the Declaration of Independence (which after going to DC twice and being 0/2 will be the only DoI I ever get to see apparently!) and the Constitution. So we go into our 10am tour and it was ok. Nothing special. We were expecting the rooms to be a bit bigger since you know, they wrote the DoI and Constitution in there! However, this was not the case.

With some time to kill before our meter was up, we walked to the National Constitution Building. Since it was wide open and no one was paying attn we may have just slipped in a little. :) We did see the Constitution and to be honest it was a building with too much open space. $13??? Happy we did not pay that! Walking around we happened to see Ben Franklin's grave and we happened to see the Philadelphia Mint. We breezed in quickly to see how coins were made. Now I wanted to walk to the LOVE statue in the one park, but it was too far and our meter was on its end. Little did I know, we happened to be right by it the day before! So I got a drive by picture only later.

So we headed out to Max's cheesesteak place, reccommended by Aaron's friend Matt. It was in the ghetto! I am a fast eater, and I can tell you that was the fastest I have ever eaten. I wanted to know my car was still there. But back to the important part-- the cheesesteak. Holy mother of God. It was delicious and it even had mayo! I was doubting this, but Matt told us YES YOU HAVE TOO! So we did. And I will never, ever regret it!

After our feast from the east, we headed to Eastern State Penitentiary. I thought this would be a quick one. Ummmm hello almost TWO hours! It was amazing. They even gave you an audio tour, led by actor Steve Buscemi. It was definitely worth every penny. We saw some really cool stuff on this tour. I reccommend it to anyone who ever goes into the city. It was cooler than Independence Hall.

95 on the way back was only kind of fierce. I literally just looked down the whole time. No, I wasn't driving! We came back, a little tired from our early wake up. Aaron took a nap or two. I did homework. I am even more caught up in my one class! Two weeks ahead. WHile in the other, I am just where I need to be. We caught a great workout-- which is cut out by our later meal.

We hit the casino. By signign up for their players card, we got $10 in free slot play each. Yea.... that did not turn into much. Except Aaron was up to $27 and lost it all. This was the talk for the night.

Finally, we had a terrible dinner-- well good-- but not healthy and now just here in the room. Tomorrow we head to NY for three days of Shenanigans! I cannot wait!! So much to see!

Belows pics are from Independence Hall, BF's grave, and us on our tour of the Penitentiary!

Philly day 1 6/16

Just a side note: this could be called The Day Dana has a Girly Breakdown. 

So after Aaron did 800 snoozes on Sunday morning, we finally head towards Philly. We, again, are staying out of downtown. This was probably a mistake for this one. Public transit to get to the city took a ridiculous amt of time for no reason and it was expensive. But I'll get back to that. 

So we get to the hotel at 1 and as we get close to the hotel I'm already having my mini-meltdown (a melt down that girls understand while the men just look at you and giggle). I'm thinking by the time we get down we won't get to do anything and blah, blah, blah. Of course I was wrong, but eh-- and we will get back to that later. 

Aaron goes in and the hotel will not let us check in early! Why?!??? So now I'm upset bc we are 18 miles put of downtown and sitting in a hotel parking lot. By now I'm thrilled! We decide we would try our luck at the casino behind our hotel. Yea that cost us $60-- though The Mummy slot machine was pretty fun. 

It's now 2:30 and in 90 minutes have paid the state of Pennsylvania with our gambling ways. The hotel does let is check in now, which made me happy. 

Aaron just decides to drive downtown bc the bus take 60 minute to get there. We drove in 15 (on 95. And for those who know 95 know that road SUCKS!) there was no beer drinking so I was ok w him driving on 95 (I know the moms' first thought were OMG driving downtown? But they are drinkers!) we get down there  and it takes about 10 to find parking! 

Finally, we are off. And since it is about 3:45 we decide to at least go see the liberty bell bc it's FREE! My type of place. We go quickly through and take some pics of the bell. It is very nicely organized the way only 1 or 2 people go up at a time. It's not a bum rush and people are polite-- shocking. 

We then take off to the Reading Terminal Market. Ummmm want one. It was  awesome. So many shops. If I lived there, we would def be hitting that up for all meat, seafood and produce needs. Oh yes and cheese and chocolate. Which we tried chocolate covered bacon with a line of peanut butter. But don't get too excited. The chocolate ran the show-- not much bacon taste happening. 

After we proceeded to go to Chinatown. Which smelt awful. Just awful! After about three blocks of seeing the same restaurants, gift shops and salons (not being sterotyper, but that's all there was!) we decided we had seen enough. 

We started heading back to the car, and I decided to get my postcards now so I didn't have to lug them around Monday. After we headed back to the hotel-- where I got some more homework done and we put in one sweaty workout! 

Now we are sitting in bumper to bumper 95 traffic trying to get back into downtown! Yay!!! 

Baltimore day 2 6/15

So yesterday, we got up and moving well. Did a workout and made our way downtown. Aaron found out there was a free bus that takes you around downtown after you get off the metro so we hopped on that. 

All I can say is Baltimore has the best ads ever. Today there was one for having balls: get tested. For HIV that is. I told Aaron I've seen advertisements before, but none like this. Then I thought is HIV a huge problem in Baltimore? The other ad was  advertising for air alerts. Is air not breathable here? Am I going to die? I was a little confused. 

The bus took us all the way to fort McHenry, which was pretty cool. We walked through the fort. We even set up the pic timer to take nice pics going into the park of us. They came out good though it kind of looks like Aaron's hand Is going up my dress. Lol those will go on FB at the end of summer. (If you read this blog and have FB, but we are not friends, we will have to become so you can see all the pics!) 

After the fort, we hopped on the free bus to go to an art museum I wanted to go to-- the Walters art museum. I figured it was free and the Baltimore museum of art was way out of downtown. Well apparently-- and I have nothing against this-- there was a gay pride parade in town. So the bus couldn't finish the route. You would think the world was ending w how ppl reacted. We got off and just started walking. Looking back, I am super Happy we got off. We found a Midtown BBQ and brew place. Their food was amazing. It wound up being the only full meal I ate yesterday bc it was so big. 

We then walked through the festivities-- some fierce outfits were there (see show picture below)--to the museum. The museum was free!! and amazing. The interior main area was made of Italian marble. I could've spent more hours in there but after about 90 mins of walking through we just wanted to go sit. I did see a beautiful painting of the colosseum in Rome and thought Next year!!!!!

We made our way to a place called Brewers Art. I liked their kolsch called Nein, but did not like their pale ale. Aaron had their brown and something else. He liked them both. 

So now we take the free bus back to the main strip. And a couple stops after we get on this creepy guy gets on. He had a small liquor bottle in his hand, his shirt is all cut up, and his hair is ridiculous. And man is he staring at me. As Aaron said: "He was staring at your real hard" and proceeded to give me a demonstration bc even when the guy would put his head down he would peek up at me. Was really creeping me out. Then these wannabe gangsters got on. Loud and obnoxious. Well they scared the creeper so much he rushed off. Aaron thinks he was drunk. I think he was mentally ill. But after those "gangsters" kept going on and on I could not wait to get off.They didn't bother us, but they were so annoying. When we finally got off at our stop, I said those guys are the reason that free transportation sucks. However, I was happy they scared the weird guy off. 

We finished the night at Platt St brewing. I had their blonde again and Aaron had idk what beers. Lol a brown and something else. While we were there we met four ppl-- two older couples. Three of them were retired teachers and one was a chemist. We chatted w them about beer, education and travel. The two men were doing the Vermont brewery challenge too. They hit 8 breweries in one day!!! My role models. :) 

Well that's it for Baltimore. As soon as snooze McGee over here gets up we are getting ready to roll to Philly! Happy Father's Day to anyone reading that's a dad! 

Night adventure and Baltimore Day 1 6/14

So, DC was fabulous! And everything was going great. I got my homework done for my class. I'm way ahead of the game (which can change so quickly). We go to bed all comfy and then waking us up out of a dead sleep is...the fire alarm! After it keeps going off we finally decide to leave the building. I'm blind as a bat w no contacts in and in shorts and a tank top. It has to be 60 out. Aaron was quite the gentleman and went back to get our wallets, phones and car key bc my glasses are in the car. About fifteen minutes later, the fire truck comes. Don't worry gentlemen. Take your time. Luckily it turned out to be.. Actually we don't know. At that time I could have cared less. I was just happy my stuff didn't burn down (see earlier comment about how my HW was done) and I could go back to sleep. That was our night adventure. 

Bringing us to Friday morning. We got a quick workout in (impressed???) and ate a small breakfast. We were off to Baltimore for two nights. Continuing our trend of staying out of downtown while using public transit, we are staying by the BWI airport. Free shuttle to the light rail station and only $3.20 for the whole day on the metro. Hello cheap! 

But let's do a little taking about the metro. DC busy, pretty clean and lovely advertisements about the medical colleges and tennis tournaments. Now let's talk Baltimore. Super clean, which surprised me. And advertisements-- can you say ridiculous? Of course I attached pics below. But let me give you a quick recap. One fully advertising WIC. I was like what? And the 2nd was about not trying to have your kid early. It basically was saying dont try to go into labor before 39 wks. And all I could wonder was: are many people in Baltimore trying to force their own labor??? This was very confusing and odd.  

But downtown was great. We visited the civil war museum and African American museum. Unfortunately, the Jewish museum is closed Friday and Saturdays!! And no that was not a joke. There is a Jewish museum and I wanted to see it. We also visited the harbor and Camden yards (Orioles stadium) during day time. Hit a brewery for lunch but had NO beer. How was that shocker? 

Did go to another Ale house- Platt Dt Ale House which had delicious beers. You didn't  think we would go two bars without did you?? Then we found this great place called sliders for dinner. Good food but LOUD! However it was right across the street from the stadium and cheap! 

We finished the evening w game at Camden yards. The Os were playing the BoSox (boooooo). The field is amazing as is the whole area. We had the cheapie seats and snuck down to lower seats after the 2nd inning! Cruised back in from the metro and just relaxing now! One more day in Baltimore. More ridiculous advertisements to read and museums to see!