Maryland, my Maryland!!!!

So, I last left you loyal readers (all 4 of you give or take) with the declaration that I was leaving Utah a week and half early to go back to MD with my amazing wife. Wow, has a lot happened since then. This post will be about our vacation, and the next will be about the fun that was awaiting us on our return.

My vacation was amazing in MD. I was still able to work from home for my one job doing web programming, and I was also worked for dad at a very lucrative wage :) I was rather happy about that. While Leslie was finishing her volunteering at PRMC and working at Fishers, I was working either from my computer or from my parents living room, helping my wonderful mother declutter her office and storage unit, aka the Bermuda Triangle. Life was wonderful.

One of the first places i went to eat in MD was the Old Mill Crab house. Can life get any better? All you can eat shrimp, fried chicken, corn on the cob, clam strips, hush puppies and Maryland blue crabs. Wow. Happy birthday to me!

We took a trip to NY with Leslie's parents and her aunt Jeannie. Again, absolutely wonderful. We arrived in NY at the perfect time, got tickets to a show (Mamma Mia!) right before the heavens opened and rain came flooding down. While in the show it stopped raining, making a perfect day to walk around and enjoy NY. The next day we went on a Water Taxi, where they drive you around the Hudson and you see the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, the Brooklyn Bridge and get to take a ton of pictures from the boat. Then we enjoyed a nice lunch in Little Italy, and even walked through Chinatown. then it was back to the car, and a long drive home from an action-packed 2 days in New York City.

Another highlight of my vacation was my first time surf fishing at Assateague Island. Unfortunately, the surf was too rough for any bites, so we didn't catch anything, but it was way fun. Especially the KFC :)

Towards the end of my sojourn in MD we received a phone call from Barbara Morgan, Leslie's professor she assists and neighbor. (Side note; as I write this me and Leslie finish our small bag of popcorn and I hit a record. only 4 kernals were unpopped and none of the other ones were burnt. go me!) This phone call was not exactly the birthday greeting I was hoping for. We learned that our apartment was flooded with 2 inches of backed up sewage from the manhole in the street. We couldn't wait to get back to Utah. cue the next post....