The World's Gonna Wake Up and See, Baltimore and Me!
So after a cross country trek we made it! Moving all of our stuff from Illinois to Charlotte was a very stressful and tiring journey, but completely worth it now that all of our stuff is here!
After the big move, Ryan's parents drove me up to Baltimore to visit Ellyn, my best friend from college who's in law school there. I was there from Tuesday-Saturday, and oh, what a glorious time was had. I took a lot of pictures, so I'll try and tell this more through visuals than just rambling on and on.
Wednesday we went to Five Guys for burgers, as Ellyn had never been there before. It was in what's called the Inner Harbor, so we hung out there for a little while, although we didn't spend much time outside, it was freezing!
Five Guys
Ships on the Harbor
The Biggest Barnes and Noble I'd ever seen!
After that, we went to a couple different stores and then went to Ellyn's favorite store, called Lush. It's a handmade cosmetic store that carries a lot of different bath and body things. We got samples of three different face washes (I've only used Dark Angels so far, and it's fantastic!) We then got some great champagne for the next night (Chandon, the same from my wedding) and headed back to the house. But first Ellyn took me to the place she gets her haircut and I got mine cut! Neil's place was a small shop that is run by 3 50-60ish year old gay men that sing you showtunes and LOVE Bette Midler. My kind of place! Neil, the owner, made me 2 cds, one of misc. Broadway mixes, and one of his best of the best of Gypsy singers. He took his favorite recording of each song from Gypsy and made a whole cd out of it. Amazing! My hair looks a lot better too, I got it over-thinned a couple months back and it needed to be finally fixed.
That night, we drank one of our bottles of champagne and watched Inglorious Basterds, which Ellyn hadn't seen yet. It was fun to watch again with someone who hadn't seen it and much less stressful the second time around!
Chandon and Inglorious Basterds - a great combo.
Thursday was New Year's Eve, and as Ellyn and I had been invited to a dinner party, we had to do our share and make dessert. We made "Car-bomb Cupcakes" that were Guinness cupcakes with Bailey's frosting. They were SO good!
Cupcakes!
After that, we got ready...
After that, we headed out to the dinner party. I had Butternut squash ravioli for the first time (which was amazing and something I'm hoping to make sometime this week!) and met a lot of really cool people.
After dinner, we headed over to a street in Baltimore that does crazy lights every year on all the houses on the block. They had rigged their own ball to go down at midnight, and we celebrated and drank champagne in the street with everyone else. It was definitely a great way to start a new decade!
Now, after we'd brought in the cupcakes to the party, we noticed that one of the cupcakes had frosting missing from it. We had no idea what had happened but decided to figure it out later. Friday morning, we got in the car to go get lunch and saw this on the inside of the car door...
Mystery Solved!
We spent Friday morning trying to find somewhere for brunch. We started at Paper Moon Diner but as they had a huge line and a horrible hostess (she wasn't seating anyone, just kind of looking around for about 20 minutes) we decided to cut our losses and headed to Cafe Hon instead, which was great. It boasts a 3 story flamingo outside and has about 30 flamingos hanging from the walls inside. They love beehives, Hairspray, and everything from that area. It was fun! The food wasn't the best ever, but the atmosphere made up for it.
Paper Moon Diner
Cafe Hon
Harry Potter Flamingo!
We spent the rest of the day hanging out, watching Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, making tacos, and having a great time. I loved having my sister back (Ellyn's my SAI sister) and staying up most of the night talking about nothing.
Saturday morning I had to head back to Baltimore via Amtrak.
The ride took about 12 hours, which was 2 hours longer than it was supposed to, but I kept company with my trusty computer and a great book (Girl with the Pearl Earring) so it really wasn't too bad. I'll throw in a few more pics of all the great buildings in Baltimore here as they don't really go in the rest of my narrative!
Ellyn shows the way...
So now I'm back in Charlotte, ready to find a job and get on with our life here. Hopefully I'll be able to go back up to Baltimore in the summer, it's a great place to visit!
You have to admit though, how can you not love coming home to these guys?
Love,
Jesi
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