May 17th, 1998

Sunday May 17th, 1998
No game
Gas:  No gas
Lodging: Elicott City, MD

Today we were sight-seers in our nations capitol (Washington D.C. for those who need to brush up on their geography).  Shana's family had recently moved from Bakersfield, CA to Elicott City, MD, a suburb of Baltimore, for Shana's dad's work at Nestle.  Christa had traveled out to visit Shana a few days before we arrived.  Our goal was to spend some together touring the eastern seaboard (Quick aside:  why do we call the east coast the eastern seaboard, but never the west coast the western seaboard?  Anybody have any ideas?).  Brian and I were tired from our long drive the night before, but Shana's dad Bob made us a great, big breakfast that was fabulous after eating so many meals on the road.  

We drove down to a parking garage in Silver Springs, MD and got on the Metro and went to Arlington.  We saw the ceremony at The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, walked around the cemetery and had our picnic lunch in front of the Iwo Jima Memorial.  We then traveled to check out the White House, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Vietnam Memorial.  After a very busy and packed day, we headed back to Shana's parent's house.

That night we had a wonderful lasagna dinner and dined out on the back deck of the house.  It was also the night we had a early birthday party for Brian.  The girls were kind enough to bake him a very nice baseball shaped cake.  That night we walked around Shana's house which was still out near the country and strolled around looking at all the deer that made their home in her backyard.  We also watched the 20000th Sportscenter, whose leadoff story was the perfect game pitched by the Yankees David Wells.