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October 4, 2012

Vacation, Day 2: Oh Say Can You See

We spent our second day of vacation in Baltimore. This was the day I was looking forward to the most, not just because of the Orioles game honoring Cal Ripken, Jr. that night but because Baltimore is my favorite city. I couldn’t wait to spend time there. Our first stop was the Inner Harbor. We grabbed lunch at Uno’s (one of my favorite restaurants) and ate outside overlooking the water. While we were eating, Lucy spotted dragon paddle boats, so we took her for a ride in the harbor. She had a blast, probably because she wasn’t the one...
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Enjoying our Nation’s Pastime in our Nation’s Capitol

September 13, 2012 in Baseball, Life, Lucy, Memories, Travel

We had quite the trip last week, and we were going, going, going every day except Saturday. Part of me feels like we should do all that we can on vacation while the other part just wants to relax! Since we did *so* much,...

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Meeting a Legend

September 6, 2009 in Baseball, Life, Memories, Sports

Fourteen years ago today, Cal Ripken, Jr. played in his 2,131st consecutive baseball game, breaking Lou Gehrig’s long-standing record. I remember that day like it was yesterday, and I was proud to call myself a Baltimoran. Since it’s the anniversary of the record being...

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Take Me Out to the Ballgame

August 17, 2009 in Baseball, Friends, Life

I don’t think I’ll ever be able to go to a baseball game again and sit in regular seats. Not after sitting in the plush *front row* seats at last night’s Atlanta Braves game. Joe got a set of four corporate tickets for last...

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Weekly Winners — 04/05/09-04/11/09

April 12, 2009 in Baseball, Cats, Weekly Winners

Go Braves! Nothing Beats Opening Day Baseball (The following were taken with my cell phone, hence the bad quality.) Have I Gained Weight? Cuddling Under the Covers Check out more Weekly Winners over at Lotus’ blog.

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Ohio Weekend, Part 1: The Colonel and the Cincinnati Reds

September 22, 2008 in Baseball, Family, Life, Marriage, Sports, Travel

Good afternoon! We pulled into the driveway at 6 a.m. and were up 5 hours later to head to Emory for my ultrasound. Needless to say, we are exhausted. Joe’s taking a quick power nap but, since we have to be up around 5...

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Moving On

September 11, 2008 in Baseball, Life, Travel

Well, I am definitely not pregnant. The timing of everything has actually worked out well, though, because now my cd 3 ultrasound will be on Saturday (obviously much easier to get to than one during the week), and my cd 12 scan will be...

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The Weekend that Was

September 7, 2008 in Baseball, Cats, Grrr, Life, Sports, Trying to Conceive (TTC)

I had a very lazy weekend, and I really enjoyed it. We slept in *really* late yesterday because Callie kept us up all night, and then after a quick lunch, Joe got ready and headed to Atlanta for Jon’s bachelor party. I settled on...

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Ohio Stopover

September 5, 2008 in Baseball, Life, Travel

We decided not to drive all the way to Cleveland the Thursday before Jon’s wedding. That’s because we’re now going to a Cincinnati Reds game! We originally had tried to see if we could fit a Reds game into our weekend but, as the...

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destination: progressive field

August 12, 2008 in Baseball, Life, Marriage, Travel

in a little more than a month, we’ll be headed north to cleveland. our main reason for going to cleveland is for jon’s wedding, in which joe is the best man. our secondary reason is to hit progressive field, home of the cleveland indians...

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