Day 2: Baltimore

We started off today with Christine making a delightful breakfast for the both of us on the fire. If you want proof here is unnecessary photographed evidence.

After a lovely breakfast we made our way into the Inner Harbour area of Baltimore, where they have some lovely shops and Camden Yards where we caught the O's playing the Toronto Blue Jays. Two side notes to add here.

1) It is almost impossible to tell the homeless people and crack addicts from the regular people in Baltimore. Everyone looks messy and disheveled so at times it is difficult to realize who you need to keep your distance from. Generally anyone carrying an Oriole's seat cushion and wearing an orange shirt is a "safe" person to be around. Other than that walk quickly and avoid eye contact.

2) The Orioles have a day to celebrate the 1983 championship team. Just about every single member of the team was there. As we talked about yesterday guys like Cal Ripken, Eddie Murray, Jim Palmer, Ken Singleton and my personal favorite, Dennis "El Presidente" Martinez, as well as many, many others. A wonderful concept, we are not even Oriole's fans and it seemed exciting, add to that a special 5.50$ seat special to commemorate the price of tickets in 1983, an autograph session and an opportunity to get your picture taken with the 1983 Champioshp Trophy and you've got gold. Right?

Camden Yards was maybe, maybe at very most half filled. Even if you don't like this team wouldn't you expect people to show up to celebrate or give their respects to such a great past team? Well, it didn't happen. Camden really is a great ballpark and it was sad to see so few people show up for the team for such an interesting, entertaining event. Although there was a good chance the reason people didn't show up was because they wanted to miss the singing of "Oh Canada" before the game, or the idea of watching A.J. Burnett get paid millions to pitch makes them almost as sick as it makes me. The Tin Man has more heart.

Back to the task at hand. We stopped at Phillips for lunch and both had crab cake sandwiches. Phillips is famous for their crab cakes and if you have the chance, you need to stop there and have some. Get the one that is boiled, it has more of a crab taste than the fried one. A true rarity something boiled tasting better than something fried.

We can expect business to pick up a bit tomorrow. We leave for Cincy, and it is about an 8 hour drive into uncharted territory for the both of us. I think we both just want to survive getting there tomorrow, and then Friday we are going to catch a Reds' game at the Great American Ballpark, the home of Homerun Adam.

We'll try to update tomorrow, if we can find and area with The Internet.