Day 26-30 - Baltimore, Maryland

It's been a while since I've posted. I've been bogged down (not blogged down) with homework and sickness.


On the 16+ hour drive from Tampa, FL to Baltimore, MD, we stopped in Florence, SC and stayed at a pretty nice hotel. I definitely made use of the pool and hot tub.

We spent Tuesday through Friday of last week in Baltimore at Nina and Michael's house. They recently bought and renovated the ballroom that we played in. Nina is a professional dancer and travels all over the world teaching dance. They live in the neighborhood of Baltimore that the drug trade portion of The Wire is set in (pictures of said neighborhood to come later).


I spent most of the time stuck up in their house doing homework. My one jaunt out of the row houses was to hang out with Bethany! She took the bus up from DC.

We took the bus downtown and went to the inner bay. While riding the bus, the woman across from us was being hit on by an older man. His winning pick-up line was, "You remind me of my daughter. It's a shame I'm too old to be in a relationship with a gorgeous girl like you." This went on for the whole duration of the ride, roughly 20 minutes.

The cannon on that ship went off and made us yelp.

Those are gummy worms from It'Sugar, a store full of novelty candy.

After eating, we went to the Baltimore Aquarium; it was pretty massive.

Then we rented a paddle boat... a dragon paddle boat.

Rawr!

The gig on Friday was honestly the best show we've done yet. The Baltimore dancers are really energetic and kind of crazy. It was a lot of fun playing for them. It was so much fun that I forgot to take any pictures. It's okay though... we're going back to the same venue for Halloween and I expect to take lots of pictures then.


Even though it was a sea of ghetto boarded up row houses, Baltimore probably was the best city we've played in.

Joke of the Day

What did the shark say to the other after they were done eating a clown fish?

I can't count how many times I heard a child say, "Look! It's a Nemo fish!" in reference to a clown fish. It's kind of sad that that name "clown fish" will be erased from our vocabulary in a few decades.