Uncle Brody

Brody is at Ft. Lee Virginia for a few weeks and made the drive up to see us over the four day holiday. We were hoping he would stay longer but he arrived Friday about noon and was gone Saturday night. With such a limited amount of time there wasn't much we could show him that wouldn't involve him being in a car too long in one day. Also he didn't want to see anything that he would see with his family when they would all be in Virginia in a few years. We decided to go to Baltimore. We haven't been there ourselves in about a year. We didn't really have much in mind. As we were walking around the Inner Harbor I thought the National Aquarium was free on Fridays after 5. It wasn't (the science museum is free at that time) but they did have greatly reduced rates. Bohdin wanted to go and we probably won't ever have another chance so we went in. I'm not a huge fan of aquariums but this one was okay. They had a nice shark and ray pool with viewing from above. There was also a very large turtle in there which was quite impressive. We sort of raced through there. We saw the dolphins, the neat coral exhibit, and the jellyfish. We passed over a lot of the educational stuff. Whole Foods offers free two parking with purchase and we had to hurry back to there to retrieve the car. It would have been nice to have a leisurely dinner but we ate at Whole Foods instead.




Saturday we just stayed in and played board games. Bohdin had some trouble with gaming etiquette but other than that everything was fun. He had some trouble last night too when he lost Coloretto. We talked to him about losing and stuff. Right after that Buddy decimated me in a series of three of the same game. I suddenly knew exactly how Bohdin had felt. Bohdin went on to win a game of Incan Gold and he felt better after that.