Weekend adventures;

Hello, hello. How is everyone? Great, I hope.

I'm doing well.

Saturday was pretty boring. I had to work and spent 6 hours at the office. That was about all we did. Had dinner, relaxed a bit, and then watched a movie before bed. We watched "Revolver", one of the newer Guy Ritchie movies. It wasn't good. In fact, it was terrible. It was very confusing, and not all that entertaining. If you're reading this, saw the movie, understood it and enjoyed it, please shoot me an email explaining why. I must have missed something that made it entertaining. Anyway, that was about all we did Saturday. Amanda made banana bread. It's delicious.

Sunday was more fun. Our friend Keith came over at about 9:30 in the morning and we loaded into the car. The three of us drove up to Baltimore to spend the day. We started our day at the Maryland something something...science center? Something like that. Anyway, we saw the Body Worlds exhibit, which was very interesting. It was a little strange but worth the trip. It's an exhibit of actual human remains that were preserved using a technique dubbed "plastination". It's not as creepy as it sounds. It isn't too gross or weird, but is meant to be educational and interesting. Interesting it was.

We spent a few hours browsing the exhibit and the rest of the Science Center before heading out in search of lunch. We bought day passes on Baltimores inner harbor "water taxi" service, which was only $9. I thought it was a great deal, and we definitely got our monies worth. We caught the taxi right out the front door of the science center, and road across the harbor to Little Italy. We grabbed lunch at a restaurant named Sabatino's...or something close to that. It was pretty good. I had the chicken parmesian. We caught the water taxi again back to the National Aquarium, but after looking at the lines and the expected entrance time (about 1.5 hours), we decided we didn't want to wait around that long (another future trip is already tentatively planned!). There are five large water vessells that you can tour as well for a small fee. We toured a WWII era battleship. It was very interesting but scorchingly hot. The sheer temperature of the inside of the boat was enough to ruin the whole experience. We did the entire self guided tour but didn't stop to look at anything in detail. Amanda hated it. But she did it anyway without complaint...she's the best.

By this time we were hot, sweaty, exhausted, and ready to head out. We decided to take the water taxi around the entire circle one last time, since all three of us love being on boats. After that we stopped at a little shop to get beverages and then went back to the car. We arrived at home at about 7pm and bid farewell to Keith. Then we relaxed and ate a nice dinner before bed. It was a real adventure!

Hopefully we'll make it back to the Aquarium one day soon. I'd like to get back to the zoo as well, once the temperature cools a bit.

:)

Until next time,

John