Baltimore & Annapolis

With only a few weeks left in our stay on the East Coast, we made one more trip to Baltimore in early August to check in with our youngest's amazing surgeon, Dr. S.

Thankfully, he was very pleased with how everything was healing 11-weeks post-surgery, and we got our final marching orders and reluctantly said our goodbyes to Dr. S and his staff.

Bonded through three surgeries in a year--hard to say goodbye!

As we've done with previous surgeries, we celebrated the good news by once again heading down to Baltimore's Inner Harbor to take in the sights and have some lunch.

USS Constellation (1797-1853)

When in Baltimore, enjoy seafood!  

We decided to extend our adventures that day by heading home through Annapolis, which has been on our East Coast "bucket list."  It was hard to really see the Naval Academy without actually going on campus, but we peeked through a few of the entrances and saw some of the Plebes wandering around town in their summer whites as we explored the historic waterfront area, which gave us a feel for the area and some of its inhabitants.

One of the side entrances to the Naval Academy

It was oppressively hot that day, and being near the water added to the heat and humidity. Thankfully, there's an inordinate amount of ice cream shops in the town to help one keep cool.

Historic Annapolis

One of the many historic buildings in Annapolis

We especially enjoyed seeing the Maryland State House, which has many claims to fame including that it is the only state house to serve as the nation's capitol, and during the time that it did (1783-1784), George Washington came before the Continental Congress to resign his commission as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.  It is the oldest continuously-operated state capitol building in the nation.

The Maryland State House (c. 1772)

Exploring the State House grounds

We're adding Annapolis to the list of fave places discovered in our wanderings around Maryland.  Hope we get to come back here and do more exploring another day!