Monday Evening at Baltimore's Inner Harbor

Joining Outdoor Wednesday

with Susan at A Southern Daydreamer.

Thanks Susan.

I am so glad the weather is making

the outdoors inhabitable again.

Warren had the day off on Monday.

Sight and Sound celebrates Easter

by giving their employees a holiday.

We appreciate that!

Chelsea is more like her Grandmothers

than she is like Warren and I when it comes

to adventure and travel.

She ADORES it.

Its not that we don't enjoy it...

but we have a lot to do, you know?

We just don't think about it.

Well, on Monday this changed.

Chelsea was looking for a day trip.

She thought that a trip to Baltimore's Inner Harbor

sounded like the perfect thing.

We checked with the Grandma's.

Only my Mom could go on such short

notice.

We asked Mikey when he returned from work

and he was up for it.

So....around 4pm we hopped into the car

and off we went!

It was such a good idea!

The breeze off the water kept us 

comfortable on that warm day.

It was fun to watch the families all out and about.

The dragon peddle boats were so fun!!

But this ship was majestic.

We have been to The Inner Harbor before.

The kids love the Aquarium

but it has been several years since we have 

visited.  We must get back and visit the Aquarium again

since it didn't have evening hours on Monday.

That was fine.

We wanted to enjoy the beautiful weather anyway.

I love this photo of my Mom.

She truly enjoys these outings.

I will preface this next set of photos by saying that

our children are interesting.

Crazy, maybe.

But they really love each other.

Jonathan hates to smile for photos.

We were trying to convince him that he should

smile....he has a great one.

That didn't work.

So Mikey began making faces.

These photos tell that story.

You just might have noticed that
Mikey's hair is lighter than you
remembered. You are so right.
Can you believe that this was his
hair color as a little boy?
So, I guess you could say he is
"going back to his roots".
LOL

He bought the haircolor.
I applied it.
We are all getting used to it.
But I love this photo of him.
Those blue eyes!

We began looking for a place to get dinner.

I was drawn to The Cheesecake Factory.

I've never eaten there and it does have a 

great reputation.

But many others were interested in it also

and there was an hour to hour and a half wait.

We passed.

This is where we ended up.

 On a balcony overlooking the harbor.

It was perfect!!

 The baskets of pansies were full and beautiful.

 I amused myself by taking photos 

of the umbrellas "floating".

 Mom checked out the view.

By the time we finished dinner

dusk had settled in .

The lights were coming on all 

around us which totally changed the 

landscape.  Pretty in a whole new way.

We decided that it was probably time

to head on out.  After all, Tuesday meant

Warren would be headed back to work

and it would take us a while to get home.

But I have to give Chelsea a lot of credit.

She found the perfect thing for us to do.

Better than medicine.

Yep!  It was.

Have a wonderful day.
Hope you are better than we
at taking day trips.

I recommend it.
I also recommend visiting my
friend Melissa's blog so you can 
enter to win a $25 gift certificate to 
my candle shop on Etsy.
The response has been kind
of luke warm and I am getting a bit
testy.....lol.
Come on!!
If you are reading this
you qualify.
Whether you are a customer,
visitor, friend or stranger...
go, enter.
My feelings are at stake...
((wink))