Charm City Adventures!!

It's been a long time since I have been anywhere fun enough to blog about, but a couple of weeks ago I spent the weekend in Baltimore and I had so much fun that I want to share my adventures with you!

Perhaps this is something you don't know about me but I love BASEBALL! and one the things on my bucket list is to see a game in all 30 of the MLB stadiums. Before this weekend I had been to five of them;

• Yankee Stadium 
• Shae Stadium (Mets)
• Comerica Park (Detroit)
• Wrigley Feild (Cubs) 
• Safeco Feild (Mariners) 

So back in January I decided I was going to go to a game opening weekend at Camden Yard. I took the bus into the city, and then the train from there to Baltimore. Let me tell you, I have taken the train a fair number of times in my life and it is seriously the way to travel, and I meet the coolest people on the train. A couple of years ago I meet a bunch of gentlemen that were on their retirement-moon (they were 5 men who had been friends for years and had all retired at the same time) they were traveling around the country for a whole month visiting a bunch of the different ball-parks, I was so jealous. This time, the woman who sat next to me was also a baseball fan, and was taking the train on to Washington where she was meeting family to go see a Washington Nationals game. We talked for almost an hour about the game and it was so nice. When I got to Baltimore I dropped my bag off at the Hotel and then headed for the inner harbor which just so happened to be only two blocks from the hotel.

The inner harbor is beautiful, and there is so much to do down there. It was still early, and the game didn't start till 7 so I had plenty of time and decided to hit up some of the highlights of the inner harbor. First I went to the Aquarium

They had a bunch of cool exhibits, but it was under construction and there were a TON of people, I had to shove little kids out of the way in order to see the fish! After spending a couple of hours walking around looking at the different fishes I wanted to walk around the harbor and see all that was going on.

They have beach volleyball courts right near the Harbor!!!

If you look far off into the distance you can see Ravens Stadium

They even do Graffiti right here in Baltimore 

After spending the afternoon wondering around the harbor and chowing down on some Yummy Mac N' Cheese, I met up with a friend who came down to go to the game with me, and we headed to the ball park.

#4 is Earl Weaver's Number, he passed away this past winter.

The Orioles were playing the twins, and both teams played a wicked game. It was really cold though, thankfully there were a bunch of burly men sitting next to us and they did a great job of blocking the wind. As a Yankees fan, I have to say that Orioles fans are CRAZY, in a good way. Yankees fans are very dignified at games, we get into it certainly, but we do it with class and grace. At Camden yard however the fans were totally into it, and so emotional. It was a lot of fun to be a part of. Alas the Orioles did not win, but it went down to the wire. I was exhausted afterwards, since the game got over at 10:30 and I had been up since 4:30 in the morning., so we headed back to the hotel. The next morning after a quick breakfast I waved goodbye and headed out to explore some museums.

  One of the reasons I wanted to come to Baltimore is because it is the birth place of my all-time favorite player Babe Ruth. They have a wonderful museum here that I was very much looking forward to seeing.

Each one of these represents a home-run that the Babe hit

He was a handsome fella wasn't he!

I will admit that I get very emotional around baseball stuff. So this museum was small and there were not very many people there, I think it was me and one other family. It is run by a woman and her husband, as I was standing in front of an exhibit about old Yankee stadium- which is also known as the "House that Ruth Built" I started crying, and we are not talking graceful, girly tears, I was CRYING. After a couple of minutes of this the woman walked past me, and stopped to comfort me, "Are you OK dear?" she asked to which I blubbered about how much I love baseball and how the babe was my favorite player and how my fantasy team is always called Ruth's Babes. She continued to rub my back and comfort me, and then suddenly she was crying and talking about how much she and her husband felt the same way. When I finally calmed down she took me to meet her husband and gave me a special ticket from the museum (they are changing things around soon). We talked baseball for a little while before I waved goodbye and headed to the Sports museum @ Camden Yards. Even now just talking about it brings tears to my eyes, and this memory will always hold a special place in my heart. After the sport museum I caught a Taxi to the train station and headed back home.

It was such a fun weekend and a great escape from everything going on back home. It feels so good to check off another stadium from my list, which I plan to do a lot this summer already I have tickets to a Toronto game, plans to see the Washington Nationals and the Boston Red Sox's at Fenway Park.

Can't wait to share my other adventures with you!!