Happy Memorial Day

For those who have come home, for those to still come home and for those who will never come home. Thank you. Thank you for our freedom and thank you for your sacrafice. I am PROUD to be an American.

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.

Buy me some peanuts and cracker jacks....

eric jo field
Originally uploaded by jobean98

I do kind of care whether I get back or not as RFK is in SE Washington which during the day...not so bad. At night.....hide your children.

The Detroit Tigers came to our Nation's Capital and Eric and I could NOT pass up an opportunity to see our beloved Tigers in action. We scoured Craigslist, we browsed stubhub.com and tickco.com, scrolled through Ticketmaster and back to Craigslist. I was sitting at work when I hit refresh and there they were. 2 tickets behind home plate for a steal of a price. I emailed the seller for some additional information and talked it over with Eric and we made the promise of meeting in DC before 6pm on Tuesday the 19th. We had not exchanged money yet so if there were any problems or doubt in our mind we would not have been out the money.

I knew it was totally meant to be when traffic was a breeze getting into the city and manuerving through the streets. Eric dropped me off at the corner of Connecticut and 16th. I had to walk a block and half to the office building and made my way to the top floor. I examined those tickets as if I were picking out a diamond.

I had in hand my friends tickets and a parking pass to the game on Wednesday.

Our tickets included an all you can eat buffet before the game and all you can eat snacks delivered to your seat through out the game. Not a bad deal.

Our seats were awesome. We were 5 rows behind home plate and very close to the Tigers dug out.

Pudge Rodriguez, Jeremy Bonderman and the Tigers Pitching Coach meeting on the mound, originally uploaded by jobean98.

We got to see the racing President's during one of the breaks inbetween the top and bottom of the inning and just the buzz of being at the ballpark was exciting.

The Tigers won 8 - 4 that night sweeping the series with the Nationals.

I can't wait until our next ball game as we traverse the states to visit every major league ball park.

Obey the law....keep our roads safe.