Days 13-14: Baltimore

Today is the official 2 week mark of our trip. One third of the way through. At this point in all vacations past if we aren't already home, we are definitely on the way. I don't think we've ever been gone longer than 14 days. This year, we still have 4 weeks and 1 day left. And no one is ready to go home yet. No one is even thinking of it. We're all very happy and having an insanely good time. I wondered how it would feel this far in. I've always said that I think I could travel indefinitely, that I don't need a home base. This is a good little test of that theory. So far so good. Anyway...

Yesterday and today are family days in Baltimore. Mike's family specifically, though after all this time together, certainly my family too. So let's clarify that as Mike's blood family, my extended family.  Yesterday we had a nice leisurely morning. The boys ran some errands with Grandpa while Grammy had to work a little bit. When everyone was home we headed to the inner harbor, just a short distance away.  Had lunch on the patio at one of the restaurants their and then spent a couple of hours touring two of the ships docked there - a submarine (Torsk) and a 19th century sloop (Constellation). Both boats were very interesting to tour. Hard to imagine living on one for months at sea though.

Had dinner at a really nice local spot, great food.

Today we are hanging out with Mike's brothers and their families. They aren't here yet, but it promises to be quite hectic and fun when they do get here so I'm posting this now. There will be 6 of the 7 grandkids on this side of the family here. One is spending time with other family in Florida. We saw some of these cousins back in April when they visited us in Texas for a week, the others we haven't seen in 3 years. Should be a fun afternoon.

Got quite hot here. We definitely left the cool weather in Shenandoah. A heat wave hit yesterday. All the fun of Texas heat plus east coast humidity. For laughs yesterday I pulled up the weather in Texas to compare to here. It was 92 here with a heat index of 97, 93 in Austin with a heat index of 93. And it's an hour later here.

And now I've got to sort out the last of the laundry. We should be good to go for another week.