A Busy Week

As I hoped, things are now very busy at our little house by the Bay. This past week, my brothers and their families came up to visit. The Perch were hitting very well off the dock, and both Creig & Michael caught fish. Even 2 year old Leah reeled one in! In addition to the Perch, we've seen several Cow-Nosed Rays swimming around the dock. Creig hooked one on his ultra-light outfit. We tried chasing it in the boat before it spun off all the line, but the Ray won the battle!

One evening we took the boat down to Cantlers. It's a very well known dockside crab house not too far from Annapolis. I like Cantlers for several reasons, the food and atmosphere being first, but also because the Cantler family has a very nice display of relics - dating from colonial times - that they've brought up from the bottom of the Bay with their oyster tongs and crab pots. We ordered a couple dozen crabs in addition to other seafood, and Dianne showed everyone her excellent method of cracking them. They were great. On another night we cruised up to Baltimore, around by ESPN Zone, Hard Rock Cafe, etc. then tied up beside a water-front restaurant in the Inner Harbor. Afterwards, we crossed over to Fell's Point for ice cream at Maggie Moo's. On the way back I swung very wide around the mouth of the Patapsco making sure not to repeat last weekend's mistake.

Another fun trip was an evening in DC where we visited the National Cathedral and Dianne provided her now famous "Monuments By Moonlight" tour. On their last day here we made a fruitless attempt at chumming for rockfish while the girls made a trip to Eastern Market. After we gave up on the fish, we cruised on down to the Annapolis City Dock. This week my Aunt Barbara and cousins Kris, Danny, & Colten are visiting. We have many more adventures planned! -S