10/22/15 Thursday

A hugh ship - a cruise ship? - just pulled into the harbor. Maybe a very large tour boat. Dinner is cooking. We were tourist today. I was, at least, and both of us for early afternoon. We took in a couple of things at the Naval Academy - the chapel was hugh and beautiful and the museum with all the ships models, including some done by French prisoners of war during the 1700s and maybe early 1800s, made of bone (chicken and cow we were told). Such amazing work to make those timy models in such detail. Saw the tomb of Joh  Paul Jones who, I believe I remember reading, died in France kind of forgotten but his burial site was found and remains brought back to the U.S. and now rest in a pretty fancy sarcophagus (sp?) at the Annapolis Naval Academy.

Naval Academy makes its own sunlight

Maryland capital in the morning

John Paul Jones final resting place - marble

Before splitting up David and I had brunch (because it was no longer breakfast time) at Chick & Ruth's Delly. An event. Tiny spaces, Crowded. Loud. Reminded me of a mom & pop delli in NYC. Bright colors. Packed menu. Too much food. Too expensive. Weak, by our standards, coffee. Fun. Don't need to do it again. I did go back to buy some bread that they make daily. Pies, too, but who needs or has room for pie?!? Art photo #2 of the Storm Drain on the way out.

Art photo #2 - Fall Storm Drain

Upon departing from each other, David took off to the boat resale store and I took off to walk around the capital a bit more. Took in the State House which is the oldest in continual use in the U.S. So much marble! A couple of photos inside. There is the room where Washington resigned his Commisison as the head of the Army (wrong words, maybe), and was that so that he could be President? Anyway, looks like a GREAT dance floor to me.

Continental Congress chamber?? where Washington resigned his Army Commission
I really need to remember this history correctly, alas.

Another photo taken facing Mr. Washington's statue shows the balcony where women were allowed.

Woman, upper left corner, only abt 20 chairs for assembly-men
Great dance floor

Lots of walking and finally found where to be coffee by the pound, City Dock Coffee with wifi and electricity so I could charge the computer.

Lots of narrow, 2-story houses, some brick, many wood. Old town, this

The complaint of the day - I need to remember that David and I have separate agends running and have a very different sense of time. I was ready to leave the boat for tourist things around 9:30 this morning and didn't start any projects, enjoyed reading and reading and reading, thinking he'd be ready...soon. About 2 hours later....heavy sigh. And we did complete our absentee voting and we did complete our mail forwarding stuff so Shannon will have our mail delivered to her house rather than having to go to our mailbox.

Life is good. We travel tomorrow.