Weekend Wrapup

Or, traffic, traffic and more traffic.

So, as we all know, Peter and I were in Baltimore this weekend. We got up reasonably early on Sunday, had breakfast at an IHOP, then headed up to Camden Yards. We got a decent parking space, then headed over to the Inner Harbor and putzed around for a bit -- nothing too major, because we didn't really have the time, but we found a bunch of things that we want to do on a subsequent visit.

We did go up to the 27th Floor of the Baltimore World Trade Center, to see the view. That was fun, and in keeping with my tradition of always going up to the top of tall buildings with observation decks when I travel.

Then we headed back to the ballfield, stopping off along the way to go to the Baltimore Sports Legends Museum. It was a small but fun museum, with a couple of really cool items -- an actual Super Bowl trophy, Johnny Unitas's Championship Ring, and the 2130 and 2131 banners from when Cal Ripken broke Lou Gherig's record for consecutive games played.

We had noticed all day that there were TONS of people with Red Sox shirts on, but we figured it was because we were doing touristy things, and the O's fans were more likely to show up for the game without wandering around first. But then we got to the stadium.

There were easily as many Red Sox fans as there were O's fans. And they were louder, too! It was fun -- we had great seats (upper box, behind home plate), and were in a clump of other Red Sox fans, so we had fun yelling "YOUK!!!" and cheering for Boston.

We left in the middle of the 9th, with Boston solidly ahead, and were back at the car and heading out by about 4:30 or so. We had NO trouble getting onto I-95 from the ball field.

But then we started hitting traffic. And hit, and hit, and hit. Sat in traffic from Fed-Ex field (there had been a Redskins game, too), which is east-ish of DC proper, to Potomic Mills in Virginia -- all of about 40 miles, and it took us a solid hour, hour and a half.

Eventually the traffic eased up, though. We were home by 10:30 or quarter of 11, and pretty much crashed. Both Peter and I are tired today, but DID make it up and out of the house more or less on time!