I arrived in Richmond on time, thank you AirTran... Dan was there waiting for me... Jumped in his car and we headed up to Baltimore, MD. It was a pretty quick ride if you ask me. I guess it must have been 2 hours or something, but it went by fast being in the same car with Dan :)
We stopped in the outter Baltimore area to leave his car at a light rail station... we took the train in to downtown Baltimore, we were just two blocks from our hotel, the Sharedon. It was a beautiful hotel. We got there at 10... so we didn't do much that night, ordered some room service, and headed to bed.
Thursday we got up and headed to the Inner Harbor. We had lunch at Phillips Seafood. It was pretty good. The view was better than the food if you ask me. After, we got our tickets to the water taxi which would take us down to Fort Mc Henry. It was a fun way to get down there, going thru the harbor, rather than taking a taxi cab! Dan entertained folks on the water taxi by asking ridiculous questions about pirates and if we could take over Fort Mc Henry... Anyway, the fort was beautiful.. we walked around the park for an hour or two, taking photos and just enjoying the view. Fort Mc Henry is the site where the National Anthem was inspired and written. Here are some photos I took at the fort:
We even bought Jaw Harps at the fort gift shop. I haven't seen one of these since 4th grade, when our whole class had them for playing 'chicken in the hay' i think that's what its called... anyway.. after visiting the fort, we walked around downtown Baltimore a bit more before heading over to Camden Yards for the Oriole/Yankee game. We had a group of people ask us how to get to the Inner Harbor, we explained it to them, then asked if they'd take our photo in front of the ballpark:
After walking around the ballpark, it was time to go in and check out our seats.. great view! wish it wasn't the friggin yankees that were in town. It was rather strange that at least half the fans in the stands were Yankee fans. I over heard people saying if the tickets to the yankees stadium weren't so expensive, they'd be going to games there... but it's cheap to fly to Baltimore and catch a game there!
I'm glad I started this tradition... I buy a hat for the home team of every ball park I have visited. this is stadium number nine for me (Dome, Miller Park, Turner Field, Cominski, Wrigley field, National's Stadium, the Jake, Target Field, and Camden Yards!) It's nice to have something from each park I've seen. what better than a hat collection :)
This is stadium number FOUR for Dan and me!
The Yankees won (surprise surprise) 4-1. After the game we went back to the Inner Harbor to take some photos. There was a full moon, and it was beautiful over the harbor!
This is my favorite of the photos I took that night:
We found this cool water fountain/sculpture that you could walk thru and around... it was pretty darn cool :) More photos a little later on that i took during the day!
Friday we got up and checked out of the hotel. They were able to check our bags so that we could walk around a few hours. We decided we headed up to Federal Hill. see the photo below. It wasn't a fun walk up! it was totally worth it though, beautiful views of the city!
We walked down the hill and had lunch at the RS. I dont remember the name of this place, as i always called it the Rusty Scrotum. it obviously wasn't the name...but since i continued calling it that, i can't remember the real name! it was delicious! i had a crabcake sammy. mmmm..
We continued to just walk around the inner harbor for a while longer before heading out of town.
Here is a photo of the water fountain/sculpture thingy we found thrusday night. The metal sculpture on the left hand side is called Ecstasy of Love. beautiful!
That was our time in Baltimore.. This whole going to every MLB park is really awesome...I never sat down and thought "oh Baltimore, that's a city i'd like to go to" same thing with Cleveland... But i LOVED both cities! I'm super excited to see more ballparks and new cities :)
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