Wednesday, June 10 - Solomon Island, MD to Annapolis, MD (Watergate Village Marina)

Cruising to Annapolis this morning….seas are sweet, calm as can be.  

Today is my daughter’s birthday!  Anna Jean was delivered thirty years ago today in Louisville by Dr. Hyman (no joke!).  As she was being born he said, ‘i hope it’s a girl, because it’s too pretty to be a boy’.  I have to say, she was a lovely babe….dark red lips and dark eye brows and a wisp of dark hair - a treasure to behold.  Happy Birthday to my daughter and friend….next year i will be there to bake you a cake and throw a party!!

speaking of cake (food)…i am very glad to be able to fix our regular breakfast this morning…due to the high winds/waves the last couple of times out we’ve gone without breakfast.  Every morning i toast an english muffin and a slice of gluten free bread, smother them with peanut butter (okay, Harry has to have butter on his before the peanut butter is applied) and sugar free jelly for Harry’s and real jelly for moi.  the routine is soothing somehow.  We always eat up top on the bridge together.  but who actually cares about our breakfast habits? no-one, but  I’m just saying that i am SO glad the cruise is back to normal and today there are no scary seas.  

it’s about half way through our cruise day and i must say, my faith has been restored that the Chesapeake Bay is not always vicious and that calm days do exist here.  i guess I’ll cancel the rental car and airplane ticket and stay aboard.

ain't it pretty when it's calm?

Took a water taxi in to ‘the city’ - it is SO lovely…like a European city.  starved we ventured into a place to have a bite and boy did we choose the right spot.  We had two helpings of mussels.  i can now say, ‘i like mussels.’  not so fond of them before, but these mussels, floating in a white wine, tomato, shallots, thyme broth were delicious - as was the price $5 bucks for 24.  We had 2 helpings!  it was one of those rare occasions when the crisp white wine went perfectly with the fresh, salty seafood.  The only problem i had with these babies was the shells too closely resembled cockroach wings… and unfortunately, i can attest to the shells being the same size as many of the cockroaches in Hawaii.  okay, enough…

After our snack/dinner we walked up and down the streets, found the state house - capitol, and admired all the colonial buildings along the way.  want to return here and spend some time - put it on your list - Annapolis is really cool place.  But do NOT stay at the Watergate Village Marina.  just don’t.

Parking lot with old city photos on the buildings!  neat idea.

Watergate Village Marina