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 bought an itch to do a household journey in a metropolis like he did a number of occasions 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. Once 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 resort (The Marriott, booked on factors after all), we walked to the harbor in 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 might barely transfer!
We nonetheless had a reasonably good time assembly enormous fish.
So crowded you might 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 truly exceeded expectations. That’s a blackened salmon BLT I cut up with T.
We walked again to our resort, stopping in a sweet retailer for a scorching second. I really like Nerds and need this shirt!
AirTag Tip
A pal of mine advisable AirTags to place in your kids at huge locations like theme parks and baseball stadiums. We apply it to the downtown mall in Cville to to offer Birch some freedom to run across the pavilion along with his brother. You’ll be able to put them of their shoe, pocket, or with a clip on ring like this one we’ve. 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 enormous!!
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 children 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 resort. Whereas the placement couldn’t have been extra good, the resort was so extremely crowded that we didn’t have a fantastic 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 attempting to examine 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 bought to our room. (We tried to take the steps however couldn’t and not using a bodily key!)
Ultimately 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 evening to varied sirens, together with the resort alarm clock that somebody set for 6am, however by some miracle all of us slept till 8!
We stunned the boys with donuts for breakfast
Cousin Reunion
We had a lazy morning after which loaded up the automobile to drive as much as Towson the place my cousins dwell! I took the boys by my grandparents’ previous home and by the church the place my mother and father had been married earlier than we met up with household.
We had a fantastic 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 approach again all the way down to Cville. I really like a one-night journey that spans two full days <3 Reminiscences made!