2007-04-13

Philly/Bal'mer Day 5.0

Back home again. Long day, won't take the time to blog much now, nor upload the pics. Donna and the girls are already in bed asleep, and Donna's got a helluva weekend ahead - demo and ball tomorrow, wedding cake Sunday. Yikes.

So, the short roundup: Checked out of the hotel and went to Fort McHenry - that was especially cool, if not frigid from the wind chill. Managed our way downtown to the Science Center, when we got there everyone was leaving - construction nearby cut the power to the whole grid right there by the inner harbor. Lovely. So got back in the car ($5 for 10 minutes of parking) and headed further downtown to see the Washington Monument. Then proceeded to Arundel Mills Mall, hiked the circumference (that's a whole lotta mall), spent some time in girly stores as well as Books A Million (BAM!) and then caught the 7pm show for Medieval Times. Just as enjoyable as the time Donna took me, actually more so as we were able to enjoy it through our kids this time. I never knew Carrie could get so bloodthirsty. A little disconcerting to see my gentle and perky 7-yr-old leaning over her table screaming "Booooooo!!! I hate the red knight!!" (This after our knight, the blue one, got the stuffing beat out of him. He was nice, but not very good.) And Carrie got the princess' favor banner from our knight, so she has a blue ribbon sash that says something like "Queen of Beauty and Love" or some such. Made her night (no pun intended). I know Katie was getting into it as well - she was seated right next to the yellow section, and got into yelling matches with the 16-yr-old and 7-yr-old sisters next to her. Knowing her lungs, it was a short contest. :-)

Right, that's it for now. We'll blog more this weekend once we get the pics uploaded and gotten some sleep, somewhere along the line.

Cheers!

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