Day #8 in DC: Outlets, Water Park, and Annapolis
[Photos from 06 August 2015, put online on 10 October 2015, or thereabouts! This entry was started while sitting in the Saga Lounge at Keflavik airport, about to head to Canada for a week, and finished quite a few hours later in a hotel room in Spruce Grove, Canada.]
On our second and last day out by the coast, we decided to split up the gang. Finnur and Elsa took all the kids to a water park (Jungle Jim’s) while Þráinn and I hit the outlet malls right next to it (separately, our needs didn’t exactly line up). I think it was three hours until Finnur asked to be rescued, at which point everybody got picked up, and we went back to home base.
There we packed our stuff into the car, and left for our other home base back in Bethesda. We stopped in Annapolis for dinner and a small stroll, which was lovely. (21 images total)
By the entrance to the water park.
While Finnur and Elsa were being fun parents, I wandered around this outlet cluster.
Yet again, there was hardly anything to have in XL, never mind XXL. I. Just. Want. Some. Good. Pants!!! I ended up finding decent pants at the Champion store, but the quality is a lot worse than the Nike or Under Armour stuff.
Picking up the tired water-parkers shortly before tea-time.
Surveying the map.
Back at our temporary home base, the kids got ice cream, while the adults packed and cleaned.
Cars being loaded up.
About to start crossing the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. I’m not sure how it’s safe to build so close to the water!?
Driving back across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. There are two spans that allow boats to pass under, this is one type…
… and this is the other type.
Bay side living.
It was close to dinner time once we got to Annapolis, so we decided to stop there and eat. It’s a quaint old town!
Random side street. It’s not all picturesque!
We ended up at the Iron Rooster, which sort of serves breakfast food all day long.
The view out the window was nice.
My chicken pot pie! The kids enjoyed coloring until the food arrived, hence the crayons.
Three peeps!
With the restaurant behind them.
Downtown shops.
Here be water.
More downtown.
It quickly became quite dark so we headed to the car, and kept driving to Bethesda.