Want more? Baltimore!

I haven't thought of a really stupid blog title in awhile...it's strangely intriguing.

So, Thanksgiving was spent with the Perra-Appelgrin clan in Baltimore and it was one of the best Thanksgivings EVER! I am hard pressed to deviate from a tradition, but since flights were so expensive this year, and since Jim, Ari, Dan and I were sans parents on the East Coast, we decided to high tail it down to a new city for the festivities.

Ari did most of the cooking, I stepped in for 2nd, then Jim in 3rd and Dan in last place with his iPhone on the couch watching the first season of How I Met Your Mother on DVD all day. I have to admit, I'm sort of sad to say that I don't have any good horror stories of the first Thanksgiving without mommy or daddy. I didn't even have to CALL home for help! That's definitely a first! I called home to figure out how to make gravy tonight for leftovers.

Anyway, I'm ahead of myself. Baltimore was the bomb, and Jim needs to give it more of a chance. I think I talked him into it. We took a little walk around his hood on Thursday.

Then there was much eating, there was much gallivanting around the East Coast. We drove down to DC to meet up with Laura and her new husband Ryan and Laura's family. Of course, we had to ogle the capital building that was in the process of being set up for inauguration day! We did cartwheels to show how happy we were! We started with lunch and sauntering around the Native American Museum and then waiting in a long line to see fun things at the American History Museum. THEN we walked all over the Mall seeing many monuments and visiting my uncle Steve at the Vietnam Memorial. There was much torturing of the others, but mostly Jim and I busting each others chops for the majority of the weekend. Good times! It ain't Jim and Jane time without some witty banter. :)

Saturday was spent with Jim and his church. I helped them put up their Angel tree. I was able to get some work done while sipping tea later in their dinning room, and then for dinner we made the trek down to the seaside to whack some crabs! I couldn't have asked for a better back up plan for going home!! Didn't want to return to reality!