What says Christmas more than an 8-month old child surrounded by two loving parents and four grandparents. And LOTS of gifts, some sent by aunts and uncles. We also celebrated Hanukkah on the 24th.
Oscar accompanies his mommy and Nana (Sherry) and Pops (Murray) to a Christmas Eve service at a Baltimore church. Of course he wore suspenders and a bow tie.
Paul and I stayed at the downtown Hyatt. Here is our view. The room rates were very inexpensive, because of the holiday, I guess. The breakfast buffet was the best I've had at a hotel.
Gillian had to work so Ben and Oscar went with us to the Maryland zoo.
One day Paul and I were on our own so we went to the National Aquarium. We saw some areas that we had not visited before.
Then we walked around the city. We saw the homonym park.
We read about the history behind this National Katyn Memorial to Polish nationals by Soviet forces.
We had lunch at Faidley's in Lexington Market. World's best crab cakes?
There were many beautiful buildings to see, but some were in disrepair like this old theatre.
This image on a sign shows a bit of what the theatre used to look like.
The huge clown heads in this store front were frightening.
We planned to continue our walk to the Walters Art Museum but we had some trouble finding it and when we came across the Maryland Historical Society Museum we decided to go there instead. We are glad we got to see it. There were some wonderful exhibits of history, quilting and local art. Also there was a special exhibit called "Spectrum of Fashion. Here is a dress worn by Wallis Simpson. I love the monkeys.
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