our fun summer continued with a short weekend trip to Baltimore, only 6 + hours away in a never ending rain and tolls that take way to much, Pennsylvania thieves. Alla's school roommate lives there with her husband Eugine and their dog Dexter which was named after the serial killer in the show with the same name.
we left Friday and drove through the rain with only one Starbucks break and enjoying Humus we brought from home. we arrived kind of tired from our current unusually boring audio book. we had 2-3 hours till dinner that i should have used for napping but instead, Alla was catching up with Tanya and i was catching up with 2 episodes of Veronica Mars. somewhere near by (40 minutes away) is one of our favorites uncles, uncle Julio, which is a Mexican restaurant chain, but our hosts tell us that Mi Casa is much better and only 5 minutes away, so we go there and try the fajita which was good, as good? i need both side by side to compare since with didn't eat at Julio for a while (no such place in Cleveland). but no complaints it was good food. we met their friend and all decided independently (even me with my broken gaydar) that one of the guys was gay, he was there with his date ( a woman). when we talked about it in the car after wards (without the guy) everyone laughed , we all thought alike. after this place we went for deserts at a soft serve place (which is more of a custard) which results in a very good ice cream.
we returned to our host's home with one of the couples (not the gay one) and went to sleep a bit after pretty tired.
after late breakfast of eggs and toast we headed for down town Baltimore for Art Scape. a very big art fare. lots of booths displaying all manner of art, sculptures, jewelry, painting and more types of pretty and useless crap. it was raining still, but warm, so we had T-Shirts and umbrellas and walked between the various displays. this was a slow progress, it took us over 3 hours and we didn't even finish the stands. some displays were packed and some empty with artist looking like wet dogs (the look in their eyes, but i think they were dry). unfortunately we had lunch in the carnival food stands. I was hungry, but that was crap food, but filling. now we have a pet dragon hanging of a lamp, this is a cute outside thing but we hanged it inside, we also got some gifts for those with upcoming birthdays and a necklace for my butterfly.
Tania got a statue of Athena made of wire, very interesting. but the question was for what style of home this statue belongs? this type of conversation i have no clue about, and wished the closet gay guy would come in and give advice. Tania thinks she doesn't have a modern home, nor a traditional home, which makes it transitional, a term I didn't know existed. transitional or otherwise, a status of a goddess with a spear, shield and helmet is OK by me. oh, for the dragon piece, I actually negotiated, I guess the Thai looking saleswoman reminded me of previous abilities. we still over paid, but over paid less.
we returned to the transitional home and placed the transitional statue , next to the big flower pot, or perhaps on the other side, it should be in the center, no the other side,, in the end in was on the side with a knife in the middle , 2 sea shells and a big vase (all other items pre-existed).
and we played with the tiny serial killer Dexter, which is a mix of Cavalier something and poodle, a small dog, like to chase a ball around, lick you legs, and bite strings and loose items, but not hard, still a pup 6 months. i called this dog a mut, since, for me any non pure breed dog is a mutt, how ever, Alla knows that this dog was made by design, both parents known to create this specific creature. we discussed it and came to the conclusion that this was a designer mutt. when America got talent act showed a woman dancing with a dog, our dexter barked and jumped at the screen, it was so cute, link to video here.
oh i forgot, on the way from art scape we drove back thorough the bad part of town also known as baltiless, continued and later stopped at the same ice cream place....mmmm..
later, after a much needed afternoon nap, we headed back to downtown baltimore for seven west- it says its American cuisine with a Mediterranean twist- but it is actually a Russian place, we rarely go to such places, not that it is bad, just not our style. the food was very good, we ordered several things and shared and I had my quarterly drink with a pineapple schnapps, since this is a Russian club, dances quickly followed, but the dance music was not to my liking, i need lyrics... this was junk to me, but i was in the minority. so guys with better dance skills (also known as black guys) danced real impressive, with fancy break dance type moves, going on 2 hands, i got a video of that as well. in comparison, i was doing the white man shuffle, and wasn't really into it, need 80s music.
we returned late not stopping at any ice cream place (closed!) , woke up late and went for a near by diner for eggs Benedict breakfast and since this place is a walking distance from yes, that ice cream place...mmm..
we headed next for old eliccotte city, a cute street of cute shoppes, the reason was a fairy factory store, my kind of store, but this small street has three toy stores, 3 in the same block? well i cant complain, i got something in each one- a dragon , a gift and another dragon (the gift is not a dragon btw).
full from toys and ice cream we left this very cute street and drove home, 7 hours later we got home.
good night and have happy Ice Cream dreams
p.s- photos and videos are in the link below
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