8 posts tagged “baltimore”
I'm on DC Craigslist a lot and just last week I started checking out Baltimore CL, I'm finally seeing LOCAL things in the listings! If it's okay with the city of Crofton, I'd still like to associate myself with DC if it's okay. Nothing against Baltimore, it's just not home. But we do enjoy your harbor area, Charm City Cakes and Port Discovery.
Jason Knauer and I covered Heather and Doug's wedding in Baltimore a couple weekends ago and we had a great time! Heather and Doug, together and separately are wonderful people and they fit so well together. It was just a few days after the new year, we had mild weather for January and location after location in and around Baltimore was gorgeous. I'm so glad I was able to be a part of your day!
Congratulations you guys!!
That LaFianza's took a mini vacation these last couple days. We went to Port Discovery on Tuesday with the kids.
Yesterday the kids went to the sitter for a while and then hung out with Laura's Mom while we went on an eleven hour painting marathon with maybe an hour break each. If you've been to our place in the last year, you'll be glad to know that the burnt orange is gone... no more mexican cantena! We painted the kitchen, hallway, living room and a lot of the moulding and doors. We've gotten pretty good at painting over the last few years (this being the like seventh or eighth time we've painted!), we used a drop cloth sparingly and didn't even bother taping this time.
The whole idea was to gear up for winter and make the walls much lighter and calmer. We're now sporting a pale yellow with our accent walls a cool slate blue. I'll take pictures eventually. Today "mini-vacation" is over and it's back to work!
Perhaps I'm a delusioned Washingtonian... but shouldn't DC be in the top 25 popular travel destinations in the United States? Why is Baltimore #15 and DC isn't even on there? DC, home to the Smithsonian can be one of the cheapest and most educational vacations with all the museums and zoo (animal and political) open to the public for free (well...upfront anyway). Apparently, it's a decent site... I guess I'll get over the OBVIOUS error and check it out now. :)
I shot some more clips that would tied everything in together... but the clips were corrupted... oh well. It was so warm out today so the kids and I packed a snack and went to a park we'd never been to. It has a really nice view of the baltimore harbor on the other side of the Chesapeake but it was hazy and the camera didn't pick it up... oh well again!
Show us your to-do list.
As with all good to-do lists, they start out on my hand and later get transcribed into my Gmail... i wonder how many to-do lists i would find if i searched my gmail for them... i used to keep a steno pad to-do, but i would end up leaving it in the place i was not... i seem to always be around my hand and the internet...
and since my hand mentioned Neil... today's post wouldn't be complete without this portrait of him from yesterday... yes, good times indeed.
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+2 scene points to you for knowing who Sailor Jerry is... I recently emailed a tattoo artist about a potential barter for webdesign that i saw on craigslist. In the email I described my services and asking him what type of work he does. I said that I lean toward old school and Sailor Jerry designs... he wrote back and asked if Sailor Jerry works in Baltimore... umm... i didn't email him back.
Sailor Jerry... if you're in an industry, any industry, it's a good idea to know how things got to where they are...
I went over to Laura as we were exiting the gate of our plane into BWI... I was going to say "I feel like kissing the ground." She said that very thing before I was close to her.
It was a long trip home, it is so wonderful to be back on the east coast... it didn't feel different really being in Texas but it feels wonderful to be home. I have a shorelinemotorcars.com update to do and then it's off to bed!
We got to the airport in Houston late, went to the wrong concorse to check our baggage, our hotel didn't have a business center so we couldn't check-in online to save time.... we made it to our terminal TWO minutes before they boarded us. Thank God none of us were picked for super-pat-down-terror-alert check or we wouldn't have made it in time.
Eva freaked out screaming for the first ten minutes and then slept for the rest of the 150 minute ride! She was pretty sick and we had her doped up on tylenol, benadryl and calms forte.
I'd never seen the sunset while in the sky, it was very cool to see the cities below totally dark but still be able to see the sun from our vantage. The other remarkable thing to me was watching the mountains appear slowly. Texas was totally flat (at least where we were) and slowly from there to Georgia i watched flat land slowly have some hills and hills eventually grew into the Appalachians.
After being here almost a week we finally made it out the suburb we've been staying in (Tomball, TX) and went into Houston. We went to the "Downtown Aquarium", it was cheaper and SO much nicer than the Baltimore Aquarium. It was smaller but half the price and INCREDIBLY welll taken care of. They were open last night until 10p and we got there at around 8pm. The combination of Houston not being very touristy right now and it being a school night we were the ONLY people in the aquarium... Eva was able to get out the stroller and do her thing, it was great for her. Had i realized how freakin' cool the aquarium was i would have brought my real camera... but the point-n-shoot did pull off this one great image of the city skyline with the ferris wheel spinning.
I will still miss SONIC most of all... I'm sure i'd get sick of it very fast, it's probably best for us to have a long distance relationship. I promise we'll KIT! (umm.. ask an eighth grade girl... if you don't remember what KIT is.. although asking an eighth grade girl ANYthing might be seen as rather creepy).
The food here is amazing... Being so close to the border, mexican and tex-mex is a whole other world... Laura and I will usually go to the chain tex-mex restaurant when we actually get a date night back home... After eating here and tasting actually authentic tex-mex and mexican... it's going to be hard to go back to the imitation east coast stuff!
I can't wait to get into this wedding and edit and design their album... This might be the album i mass produce into sample "give-away" albums... we'll see how it turns out, but the images are incredible and in many different locations... I'm going to also be shooting Arianne and Jimmy at an abandoned Hospital when we get back home. It apparently was abandoned in the fifties when all the staff and patients got TB and died... The beds are still there along with many other creepy "ghost town" things... complete with paint peeling off the wall and broken windows. I can't wait to shoot there, hopefully we don;t get kicked out!
In about six hours we'll be on a plane home to the nation's capital... Eva, Laura and Myself are all sick... probably due to the huge change in climate.
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