July 3, 2009

Adventures with Ann

After the morning chasing rockets and a nice lunch with Paul and Julie, we went to visit my cousin Ann in Baltimore. I have been reading her blog for a while and have been jealous of all the fun her visitors have. I have to say that our visit was everything that I had hoped it would be. It should have been a 1 hour drive but traffic made it take almost 2 1/2 hours. When we finally walked through the door we were greeted by hot cookies and milk, Yummy! Then we played frisbee in the park behind her house while we waited for the traffic died down. Then we drove into Little Italy to play Bocce Ball. Rebekah wowed us all with her amazing bocce skills. There were even some league players watching who commented on how good she was. After playing ball we needed some dinner. Kenneth asked about seafood, seeing that we were on the coast. Ann had a great idea and we went to Bo "something" (sorry we can't remember the name) for some crab. Kenneth ordered an oyster for each person and this was recieved with mixed and often humerous results. Then he ordered 50 "dollar crabs". The dollar crabs are missing a claw or light in weight , basically they are reject crabs. The table had paper on it and the crabs are steamed and spiced with "Old Bay", and dumped on the table. Everyone had a hammer and we were given a lesson on how to disassemble them. We managed to eat 42 of the crabs. They were delicious. Hazel and Kenneth ate the most. Hazel had a really hard time picking apart the crab so Ann most graciously sat and picked apart crabs for about half an hour and fed them to Hazel. We think Hazel ate at least 5 crabs.

















Hazel eats an oyster (kind of... It came right back out)


















Nate eats his oyster.


















Abby makes a show about eating her oyster.


















Waiting for the crabs to come, with a fine view of the Chesapeak Bay.


















Ann and Hazel and the Crabfest.

















Truman feeling "Crabby"

















Sydney feeling "picky".

















Rebekah and Ann and a claw.

1 comment:

Greg and Nicole Jensen said...

ahhh... Baltimore! Our old stomping grounds! You drove by our house on the way there. I know about where you were for dinner. Nice place.