Baltimore with cousins

We were very excited to have our cousins come to MD to visit. They came and stayed at Grandma's house but we still got to see them quite a bit during their visit. On Monday we headed down to Baltimore's Inner Harbor to see the Sailabration. It is the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812, which was the war that the National Antham came from, written right out there in the waters of the Chesapeake Bay. It's kind of a big deal around here. Anyway, they had all of these tall ships sail in, as well as some grey hulled (?) ships. Right as we were entering they had some sand art on display.

 Most of the cousins in front of the sand art.

 It was a dreary, rainy, chilly day that day. But we had coats and umbrellas, so we survived.

 The lines for the most part were not too bad to get onto the ships, and the kids really loved being able to walk around and look, and touch things.

 All of the masts and riggings were quite impressive.

We had a picnic lunch, and right as we were finishing up, it started to drizzle again. This one has all of the cousins.

 After lunch we headed over to a Canadian War Ship. Yeah, I know, it's kind of weird that there is such a thing! We waited for like an hour and a half in line to get on. I don't know why we waited so long, but it kind of gave us the chance to let the kids run around and explore while others stood in line. It was pretty cool once we got onto it though. The kids got to sit in the Captain's chair.

In addition to the ships that were docked that you could go on, there were some ships that were sailing around in the harbor that all looked pretty cool too.

It was a fun little outing, although we were pretty exhausted by the time we got home.