Where's Waldo?

In this case, Camille is Waldo. She's definitely in here somewhere. I'll give you a clue, she's in section 336.

Big News: My Family Has Arrived! Home finally feels like home again and we've begun to explore the area. The east coast is so much more interesting when there's someone to share it with! Pete and Mark - at least you have each other, right?

So, Friday night Sara and Tanner and I went to Family Night at the Orioles versus Braves game at Camden Yards in downtown Baltimore. It was Tanner's first ball game and we ate peanuts and cheered for the orange team. Little did he know, but his first game was in the very stadium where Cal Ripkin, Jr. set a record of 2,632 consecutive games (breaking Lou Gehrig's 1939 record). Yay!

Camden Yards is named because the field is situated on what used to be the rail yard of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Camden Station (you can see the old warehouse behind the scoreboard).

He enjoyed the game (as evidenced here by the bubbles), all except every time anyone scored a run he cried. We think it was because the loudspeakers were directly above us, so we gave him some gold beads to distract him. They were "less effective" and we left a few points later.


This is an ivory chess set that some President used to play with. We spent Saturday in DC for Sara's first time since she was little. I realized that we had a sweeeeet hotel location when we went for our Advocacy Summit. Parking is expensive! We paid $20 for the day (9 hours). I finally got to see Abe's hat and the Star Spangled Banner and we spent the rest of the day in the Holocaust Museum.


It was also nice to see DC with foliage. Really pretty, but much easier to get lost. You didn't really need a map in the winter because all the monuments are visible no matter where you go!


This was at a really cool marble outdoor amphitheatre thingy by the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. If you go onto the stage you pretty much get baked by the sun reflecting. We realized that's why the guards are issued sunglasses!