Good Morning Baltimore!

Lyric taken from one of my favourite movies- Hairspray. Set in Baltimore but filmed in Toronto of course! But seriously, this city was filled with so many things to do- sports, harbour, shopping, aquarium.... we couldn't do it all in a day, and I must say, I want to go back and stay there and absorb it all in. It really is charming.

Look at those tourists posing in front of Camden Yards. Just set the tone for the day!

In America, food trucks are the 'it' thing! You can see by the tv food shows specializing in showing what these mobile gourmet kitchens can do. Here is one we walked by... so American, right?

Beautiful water sculptures and water features at the 'Inner Harbour'.

Here are the tourists 'pre-shirted' approaching the 'Inner Harbour'.

Some great stores to look around at. This one called 'It's Sugar'. OMG, so many sugary treats. I bought this little mint tin for Melanie. 'Flirty'!

Another food tv reference, this time. Charm City cakes, that's where the Ace of Cakes is filmed with Duff Goldman. Since I can't buy everything, I decided to take pictures of some cool souvenirs like these ones.

And these lovely Charm City Cupcakes.

Melanie wanted to go on these Dragon boats, I told her... sorry, too expensive and we don't have the time... so let me just take a picture of you in front of them... It worked!

Here's the cool aquarium across the bay.... we didn't have time to go and visit... but maybe next time!

Brent had heard of this restaurant chain and so we had to go and partake in some shrimps! Thanks Forrest Gump.

Look at these funny shirts... all sayings from the movie.

At the table with the signage... if everything is cool you just leave it on 'Run Forrest Run'.

...but if you need to summon the waiter, you flip it to 'Stop Forrest Stop'. We did and it worked!

Brent went a little nuts with his shrimp 3 ways, just like in the movie... fried shrimp and garlic shrimp and coconut shrimp....

I played it cool and ordered my favourite... again... coconut shrimp! Delish!

Now, onto the next portion of our trip... the sports portion. Brought to you by the Baltimore Orioles. Big old historical building holding the Sports Legends Museum... and gift shop of course!

The Number 1 baseball fan standing in front of #42- Jackie Robinson. So cool!

So much team spirit, even the garbage can was getting in on it!

and all the pennants everywhere.

this litte Oriole was seen everywhere... like, between the bathrooms.

... on the condiment cart...

 

oh.... and this guy, took us some time to figure out who he was... he is the local beer mascot. Melanie posing with her little wienie Oriole guy and the beer man, nice eh!

and the fans in the stands... P.S. we had matching orange shirts... we didn't want to stand out and blend with the crowd. Everyone wore orange!!!!

 

...and here you have it, the historical Camden Yards as seen from our seats. Quite an epic moment for my baseball loving husband. Hon, just knock another one off the list!