Flat Stephen Spotted in North Carolina

 We had such a fun time with Stephen! On his first day he helped my mom and I paint the kitchen. Second day He helped give Echo a bath!  Lastly we went out to eat sushi with Fable, mom, Alexis and me. The one in the car is our way back from dropping Alexis off at the airport!! He was very productive while he was here!!

Painting the kitchen

Giving Echo a bath

Meeting Fable Rose

Eating Sushi!

In the Car

Flat Bethany takes New York!

Here are pictures of Flat Bethany. She is now on her way  after visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art with me and having a NY hot dog and a NY pretzel!

Washington DC, Pensylvania and Delaware meet Flat Bethany!

Welcome to Washington DC Bethany! You're here for Memorial day weekend and our trip to Philadelphia and then to the Eastern Shore of Maryland. In this pix you are by our window in Georgetown looking SE.

Mike and Mary Jo

Here we are waiting for the 44 bus to downtown Philadelphia.

The 44 drops us at 30th St Station - the a nice walk along the bank of the Schuylkill River to the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Here we are at the museum. The Rocky steps are in the background.

Pretty hot today in Philadelphia so we're stopping at Reading Terminal Market to have an ice cream. Bassetts (est 1861) is the oldest ice creamery in the USA!

We're on a theme here. Lunch is at the 2nd oldest Italian restaurant in the USA (but the oldest operated by one family-Dispagno). It is in the Italian Market neighborhood. The oldest open air market in the USA still in operation!

Ralph's

We're heading South from Philadelphia - now in Delaware. At this rest stop we bought paper poppies - a traditional symbol of Memorial Day and in honor of Vets since WW I.

Now we're getting ready to kayak in MD. This is the outfitters. Their shop is in the oldest store on the eastern shore. It is near Harriet Tubman's birthplace. She was a slave and was hit by a slavemaster in this store and developed epilepsy. She later worked on the underground RR.

This is our kayak route-the Transquaking River. We paddled 5 1/2 miles and saw bald eagles, golden eagles, herons, osprey and other birds.

We're visiting the old Delaware State House. It is on a square designed by William Penn. Delaware auto licenses say "First State" because it was the first state to ratify the Constitution.

 

We're almost back home in our Georgetown neighborhood of Washington DC. Thought we'd snap a picture of you visiting our neighbor at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. 

OK, now we're home -- on 30th St Northwest between M and K streets. We are right next to the C and O Canal that runs from Georgetown to Cumberland Maryland. It is now a park but used to transport freight on canal boats. This is one of the locks that let boats go up and down grades.