A Mini Vacation

Friday J finally got back from his "trip", he got in just in time for a late supper. The boys were bouncing off the walls glad to have daddy back home again, as was I. We got the boys to bed and watched John Tucker Must Die, J even thought it was a pretty funny movie.

On Saturday after much debate we decided to go down to Baltimore to take in some of the sights and to use some of our Hilton Points. The traffic was pretty heavy getting there, but we made it there in time for a quick bite and get to the Ride the Duck slot we had arranged. Unfortunately, we got caught in the storm that blew through and ended up having to redo the ride on Sunday, but the boys had a blast with those quackers and thought that it was pretty neat to go straight from road to water and back to the road again. Along with redoing the Ride the Ducks, we toured the US Submarine Torsk, the Lightship Chesapeake, and the USS Constellation. It ended up being a beautiful, but hot day filled with a lot of adventuring. We ended the day eating at the Hard Rock Cafe, I had a wonderful drink...yum!

I asked the boys what the best part of the trip and both of them loved staying the hotel. They are use to staying in hotels because of all the traveling we do between here and the grandparents, but instead of the nice Embassy Suites we have to stay in Motel 6's because we have the dogs with us..and they leave the light on just for us! At the Embassy they slept together in the pull out sofa bed, I don't think they went to bed until 10:30...they kept getting into each other's space. The Embassy also had interior elevators that the sides where giant windows and they enjoyed being able to look out over the veranda while we climbed up to the 7th floor.

I hope to get more weekends together exploring the area in the future.

I'll try to upload some photos if I can get them to work on J's PC...some of the functions have been corrupted and I usually use the Laptop to post.

ETA: Got the photos up now....