Annapolis Weekend

This weekend we went to Annapolis to celebrate our seventeenth anniversary. We were able to purchase tickets to see this band on Saturday night (our actual anniversary). So we went fancy-pants on Friday night and had a great meal at Osteria 177. From the super-talented bartender to the fabulous waitress to the outstanding food, we couldn’t ask for a nicer dinner out.

On Saturday we wandered around town and had to stop for this:

While we enjoyed the Guinness, we ate fried oysters, fried corned beef poppers and crab cakes. The crab cakes weren’t fried so I can’t say that it was a total fry throw-down. But, it was close to that.

As we wandered around town, the better-half tried really hard to get a picture of the capital building. Like most cities that are from olden times (ha), all of the power lines are above ground. It was really difficult to get a shot that wasn’t a riot of electricity:

We finally came at the capital from a different direction and he got off a pretty good shot:

We decided that Annapolis is a high-speed collision between Williamsburg and Boston. There are tiny little colonial houses shoved in right next to large brick buildings. This is the view from our hotel room:

And, the house I called the scaly house. There’s one that’s similar in Austin right near the capital area there too. I really like the texture and the use of stained glass:

We went down to the harbor area a couple of times just to sit and look at the water. What is it about harbors that bring out every tacky t-shirt/ice cream/candy place?

The weather was sunny, cool and breezy but it was nice enough to wander all over the place on foot. The car was taken by the valet when we got there and returned to us this morning. There was no need to use it and the roads are built for horse and buggy so it was fine with me not to have to worry about parking or driving. No sooner did we get home than we saw snow flakes and now I think there’s a mix of rain and sleet. I’m glad the craptastic winter weather that won’t go away waited until we got home.