The Story of Us: Weekend in Baltimore

We got away for the weekend to visit Zach's mom in Baltimore. We had a great time hanging out and visiting a new city. A city that was only supposed to be a temporary home for Melanie, but is now going to be home to Melanie and Charley for the next few years. We are so excited about Melanie's promotion and the opportunities that they will have have living up there.

Despite tropical storm Hanna making its way through the city and Zach not feeling well, we managed to have a fun time. I was especially glad to let Melanie take over telling Zach he needed to eat! We went out driving around on Saturday to see where Melanie works and Saturday night after the wind and rain had subsided Melanie and I got out for dinner and a little shopping at the first ever Barnes and Noble bookstore.

By Sunday, Zach was feeling well enough to do a little sightseeing. We visited Ft. McHenry which is where Francis Scott Key wrote the "Star Spangled Banner". It really is pretty neat to visit a place with so much history. In the afternoon we rode the "Duck Boats" around the city and got to see things from land and water. It was a little weird driving off the road into the water and then back out of the water and onto the road. We went to dinner at a cute little Italian restaurant in Little Italy. When we were being seated at the resteraunt the hostess said "please follow mia". We sat down and Zach said "I thought she was trying to have a fake Italian accent when she said 'follow amia". HaHa.