We spent final weekend in Maryland on a household journey to Baltimore! Right here’s the recap of our go to from the aquarium to Camden Yards.
Household Journey To Baltimore
Earlier this summer time Thomas received an itch to do a household journey in a metropolis like he did just a few instances when he was a younger lad, so he deliberate a getaway for us to Baltimore!
I’ve fond recollections of downtown Baltimore with my grandfather. After we had been little, he used to take us as much as his workplace after which out to lunch on the harbor.
After we arrived at our lodge (The Marriott, booked on factors in fact), we walked to the harbor in the direction of the aquarium.
We handed by the 9/11 Memorial and many pirate ships.
The Nationwide Aquarium
Our first cease was the Nationwide Aquarium, which was sadly a ZOO inside (pun supposed). So many individuals had the identical concept that you would barely transfer!
We nonetheless had a fairly good time assembly big fish.
So crowded you would barely stroll!
My favourite exhibit was the jellyfish immersion!
We additionally appreciated the 4D present with particular results. Though Birch cried laborious when water got here out of the display screen!
We had cafe meals for lunch which really exceeded expectations. That’s a blackened salmon BLT I cut up with T.
We walked again to our lodge, stopping in a sweet retailer for a scorching second. I like Nerds and need this shirt!
AirTag Tip
A pal of mine really helpful AirTags to place in your kids at massive locations like theme parks and baseball stadiums. We apply it to the downtown mall in Cville to to provide Birch some freedom to run across the pavilion along with his brother. You may put them of their shoe, pocket, or with a clip on ring like this one now we have. Extremely suggest!
The Orioles / Camden Yards
Subsequent cease on our household summer time enjoyable journey was an Orioles sport! My grandfather was an enormous fan, but I’d by no means been to a sport! Camden Yards was such a pleasant stadium – and it was big!!
We had nice coated seats behind residence plate.
Extremely suggest this orange-y beer. It was like a Blue Moon and an IPA with orange.
The youngsters hated the Cracker Jacks – eye roll.
Mazen and I every had crab cake sandwiches for dinner. They had been made with lump crab meat and fairly good!
Getting To Mattress
After the sport ended (sadly the O’s didn’t win) we walked again to our lodge. Whereas the placement couldn’t have been extra good, the lodge was so extremely crowded that we didn’t have a terrific expertise. Our room wasn’t prepared till 5:30pm (whereas we had been on the sport) and there have been so many individuals within the foyer making an attempt to verify in that I used to be so glad I had the Bonvoy app with a cellular key. Getting an elevator was even worse however we lastly received to our room. (We tried to take the steps however couldn’t with out a bodily key!)
Finally all of us showered and watched the Olympics in mattress!
Good morning
I forgot how loud metropolis sleeping is! We wakened rather a lot all night time to varied sirens, together with the lodge alarm clock that somebody set for 6am, however by some miracle all of us slept till 8!
We shocked the boys with donuts for breakfast
Cousin Reunion
We had a lazy morning after which loaded up the automotive to drive as much as Towson the place my cousins reside! I took the boys by my grandparents’ outdated home and by the church the place my dad and mom had been married earlier than we met up with household.
We had a terrific go to together with getting to satisfy our littlest cousin who’s a yr older than Birch! We had BLTs and a few summer time fruit truffles for dessert.
After lunch we made our method again all the way down to Cville. I like a one-night journey that spans two full days <3 Reminiscences made!
