Crabby McCrabberson Party of 4

It has been awhile since I've written here but it has been prety quiet on the travel front for us. I think we ventured out a couple times for some railfanning in April but nothing too exciting.

It is May and spring is in full bloom. May also means that my parents are in town for their annual vacation. They come down every May around their anniversary to spend a little more than a week with Eric and I. Today actually happens to be their anniversary (Happy 34th Mom and Dad) and Eric and I took them into DC and to Philip's Seafood Buffet for all you can eat...you guessed it....SEAFOOD! http://www.phillipsseafood.com/index.cfm?page=menus&id=11 I'm usually not a big fan of the kind of seafood you have to pull apart and break legs and work for the meat but man...those crab legs were soooooo delicious.

After we ate we strolled down to the Fish Market. This is a photo of one of the many vendors there at the market. You can get fresh fish and seafood to take home, you can get sandwiches, peel and eat shrimp and many other things to eat there in the market. It is such a cool place to just people watch too.



This is the view of the marina that is right there next to the Fish Market.



We strolled through the market and past all of the vendors. I like this picture of the (snow?!?) crab and the Maryland blue crab. Let me just say...the blue crabs are WAY too much work. ;)



They have everything from catfish to trout to crawfish and shrimp to large octupus and these baby octupus. For those of you from Michigan and you Red Wings fans...just think of chucking these little guys onto the ice. ;)



A coupe of booths down I decided to play with the color accent feature on my camera and took a picture of the blue crabs.



and then focused on the reddish/salmon color of the other crabs.



After we were done at the market we headed towards home by way of Maryland and White's Ferry. This is a ferry that runs across the Potomac River and ferries commuters and the like back and forth. It's $4.00 for a one way trip but truly worth it.

A few stops here and there and then we were home to relax and enjoy one another's company.