Baltimore Inner Harbor

Hello World

As January is nearing an end, I thought it would be a good time to share some pictures of the adventures we had over the Holidays on the East Coast....

We arrived in Baltimore on Monday December 21. This was the Monday after that weekend that the huge, massive, large blizzard struck the East Cost in 2009. So things were a bit unusual to say the least.

When I say "we" arrived, I mean that both Delaina and I arrived. Now our Luggage, that is a different story. Our Luggage took it's own vacation this year (the first time this has happened to us in a LONG time). It started by traveling to New York (where our plane was continuing on to that night), then back to Las Vegas (where we connected from) then to Chicago for the night, and then finally back to BWI. Don't you wish they had Luggage Cams ??

The Luggage eventually found us, 3 days later. Luckily we packed some "goodies" in our carry-on bags just in case this happened, and Southwest Airlines and the Hotel both gave us some travel sized items to see us though.

OK so to the good stuff: Here we are, at one of my favorite restaurants in Baltimore: Phillips! We ordered an assortment of appetizers- all that featured CRAB! (sorta like a tapas night, right?)
Then we spent the night at an Inner Harbor Hotel, right across the street. We asked if they had any rooms with a harbor view, and they did.... Here is the view as the sun was rising!

The room also came with a free breakfast (Thanks AAA card). Delaina ordered Eggs Benedict (with crab of course).


Then we headed out to walk around the Inner Harbor/ Power Plant shopping area. As it was FREEZING cold, snow everywhere and hardly anyone around, we took the plunge and visited the Baltimore Aquarium. We saw a lot of fun stuff and had a great time.

We tried to snap some photos of Nemo and Dori, but they all came out a bit blurry....


The "special" exhibit was about jellyfish. The room was dark and had music from the Blue Man Group playing. I took some great video that I will attach later.

These jellyfish were about as thin as a tissue. Some swam slowly in the water- almost as if they were falling or just floating along, whilst others seemed to move much more rapidly. They were really fun to just hang out and watch.

Because of the bad/snow/cold weather the local schools were not in session and many employees were commenting about the lack of visitors on that Tuesday. We thought it was just right.

After the Aquarium, and a late lunch at Phillips naturally, we boarded the light rail back to the BWI airport and met up with Kris's parents and checked on the status of our lost bags.

Have a great day!