For our fall foliage camping trip this year we traveled down south to Maryland. We spent one day exploring Baltimore and the next day sightseeing in Washington DC.
First stop in Baltimore: Babe Ruth Museum. Alexi is a HUGE baseball and New York Yankees fan, and Mateo throws a ball like a future NYY pitcher, so this was the perfect place for our family. It was fascinating to see the room where Babe Ruth was born - his mother had a home birth.
Of course we had to visit the National Aquarium in Baltimore. Sharon went there with her family during her first year in high school and David had never been. Mateo absolutely adores animals now (check out that duckies sweater) so he was thrilled to visit. They have some really cool exhibits, like the jellyfish pictured above.
These sea creatures definitely have personalities. Alexi and Mateo loved seeing "Nemo", especially after watching the movie "Finding Nemo" in Spanish in Spain this summer.
Bubbles AND the color blue: Mateo's two favorite things in the world! And a family at lunch is a happy family indeed...we are a total foodie family!
Our children love camping just as much as we do!!!
We spent the second day of our fall foliage trip in Washington DC. It was Alexi and Mateo's first time visiting our nation's capital. Here we are standing at the Mall-first in front of the Washington Monument and then at the WWII Memorial.
Alexi enjoyed exploring Washington DC (while Mateo napped through our whole time there). He gravitated toward his home state and walked away with one huge Benjamin!!!
While in DC we got to visit with my wonderful childhood friend Sharon and her beautiful and sweet children Andrew and Brendan. Sharon and I grew up together in New Jersey and lived just 6 houses apart from each other. We spent so much time hanging out at each other's houses and playing in the street (back when children could safely do that kind of thing) and I have very fond Girl Scout memories (Sharon's mom was our Troop Leader!). Sharon and her sons gave us New Yorkers an excellent and memorable tour.