We finished up our journey yesterday. I can't remember the last time we just drove to where ever we wanted and had very little planned. I think for us that works out the best.
Thursday we went to Baltimore and spent time in the inner harbor. We were able to slip into the aquarium before they closed and it was very cool.
We stopped at Phillip's express to get a snack and it was alright. I got some fried crab to hold me over until dinner time. I did end up getting shit on by a bird while sitting by the harbor. It happened so fast and I didn't really know what happened at first. The majority of it hit the right lens of my glasses and luckily I was able to close my eye fast enough. Very little got on my pants and sleve. I was still able to wear them the rest of the night. However, I did feel all gross and just wanted to take a shower. My wife said it's good luck...frankly I think it sucked.
We met my uncle Don and his girlfriend (Bev) for dinner at The Rusty Scupper. I had a broiled seafood dish that included blue crab. It was excellent and tasted so fresh.
D.C. was our next stop. We had been there a few times before but it is always fun to walk around and see everything.
This trip we were able to see the new WWII memorial. The layout was very well done. They seemed to touch on so much and I am very happy to see they finally have something honoring this war.
I wish I could get a hold of some of this grass. Sounds like it would do the trick in my backyard.
Our hotel was in Arlington just on the other side of they Key Bridge. It is named after Francis Scott Key who wrote the Star Spangled Banner.
Next we drove up to Pottsville and hit the outlets before heading to my cousins for the night. Apparently they have a nuclear power plant near there. I had never been this close to one before...that I know of.
We had our first home cooked meal of the week with some of my family in Doylestown, PA.
The drive home was uneventful except for some traffic that delayed our arrival by an hour. I tried to get a picture of the bugs on the windshield. I hate bugs on the windshield!
I want that done!
Thanks for the info. We're actually getting ours cleaned in a few weeks. I'll post the pics when they get done and we can talk smack over who had more/less filth in their ducts!
I had a mixed experience with them. Because our house had so many cats before we moved in, and because I am deathy allergic to cats I called them to do the ducts. They came and seriously they took out like 100x the junk you have collected as the pipes were huge old ones and totally clogged with 18 cats hairs. It was disgusting (e:paul,32742) .
However, when they were done, and because I am so anal about cat hair, I sent the web cams down the pipes attached to the laptop with USB extension cables and found lots of junk still down there. I sent them the pics and they came and "redid" it and gave us a discount for the next time. I still think it was kind of bullshit that they did not get it all the first time. Then again it was really like 100 years of animal hair and it was definately an industrial strength job.
Ironically, shortly thereafter we replaced the whole pipe system with a new one when we had the asbestos removed.