Road Trip!

School let out on June 14 (the big kids went until the 27th thanks to all those snow days, which are still better than these soupy days we have now!) and we got a great start to summer vacation. The first week was just a chance to sleep in, and then we hit the road!

Harrison and I drove to Baltimore on Tuesday. Pretty easy drive other than 5 or 6 stops to change diapers- his, not mine. We finally arrived right around 5 pm. Pop-Pop met us at the hotel to play with his boy while I unloaded the car and then we went back to his house for a late dinner of Esta's homemade Maryland Crab soup, YUM!

Harrison and I got to spend the next few days visiting with family and friends, some of whom had never met Harry. And I got to meet the beautiful baby girl of the girl who I used to babysit from the time she was 2 months old! And she is getting a cousin...mom-to-be is the little sister- my two favorite girls in Ranchleigh!  OK, who followed that one? I feel old.

Harrison loved seeing his biggest fan Andrea, and he loved hanging out with my former neighbor Steve (who got married the next weekend, sorry we missed it! CONGRATULATIONS!)

 

We saw so many people... he definitely made the rounds! It was so wonderful to see all of you, and we were bummed that we missed a few others. Watch out, we will be back!

Saturday morning Harrison's dad and brother and sister arrived. His big sister is looking at colleges in DC...OMG. We also got to go fishing on the Chesapeake Bay with Captain Andy...the kids caught many many perch (for bait) and over a dozen Rockfish (YUM), and John even caught a catfish. Harrison loved the boat ride, and I think he really liked the captain's fiancee too :)

 

 

James and I played tourist at the Inner Harbor while Cassidy and John drove all the way to DC, twice, just for cupcakes  http://www.georgetowncupcake.com/ - no surprise there!

James loved Bertha's Mussels, and the theater behind the boys is where my dad, Pop-Pop, used to perform in plays.

The brothers were also happy to cool off in the hotel pool after a day in muggy Charm City.

Lots of time with the grandparents, so nice and never enough. Hopefully we will all be together again very soon!