On Friday, I left work early and went home so that I could catch the lightrail to the airport to pick up my mom. The lightrail was, of course, running late, so I was worried that I wouldn't make it on time to pick her up. I got to the airport right on time though. On the way there, a guy asked me where I was going, and it of course weirded me out, but he assured me that he wasn't trying to follow me or anything. Whatever. Gotta love public transportation. The ride to the airport was probably about 35 or 40 min long. When I got there, I just had to wait a bit until my mom called me a let me know where she was. I went to the luggage pickup where she was, and I saw her, and it was seriously just like the stereotypical thing you see in the movies in airports where people haven't seen each other in a long time, and they embrace, and it's totally wonderful! Yeah, that's how it was. It was great.
We rode the lightrail back home, and then I took mom back to my apartment. She liked my apartment for sure. That night, we went out to dinner to Kyro Pizza. It's a cute little pizza shot in Mt. Vernon that has a bunch of unique pizzas. Megan and I went there a week or two ago. Mom tried the Ballpark pizza. Which has hotdogs on it. Yeah, she liked it. Perfect pizza for her. Following our pizza adventure, we took the Charm City Circulator Purple Route and took the entire circle around so that she could see the city a bit more. She wanted to save her walking legs for the next day, so we used the Circulator bus as a sight seeing bus really. Both for people and for the city :) At this point, it was getting dark, so we called it a night and went back to my apartment.
On Saturday morning, we woke up fairly early (for me anyway) and got ready. We walked up Charles Street and caught the Hopkins Shuttle to the Hospital so that mom could see the lab where I work at. She said that this was her favorite part of the whole weekend. I'm not sure why, but I guess it was pretty interesting for her to see what I do. She got to meet some of the guys in the lab (the serious ones that come to work on Saturdays) and my PI as well.
We took the Hopkins Shuttle back and then walked to my favorite Indian restaurant for lunch. We had the lunch buffet so that mom could try everything and find out what she liked. I don't know if mom really loves Indian food, but I love it, so that's why she got to try it! We sat by a window seat on Charles street, and mom loved to look at all of the architecture out the window as well.
Then we took the bus down to the Inner Harbor. There we went around to all of the little shops that they had, and even stopped to get some ice cream.
We went to the Power Plant, and while we were at the Barnes and Noble there, mom saw one of her friends from SLC airport! Small world.
After that, we walked down the harbor a bit more and found a really fancy seafood restaurant. We had to eat some crabcakes!! We went in, and we didn't even know if we would like them or not. We ordered one order of crabcakes between the two of us. It came with fries and coleslaw as well (both of which I don't like...) but it was the experience that counted. The windows to the restaurant were right on the Harbor, and it was soo gorgeous! I like crab meat a lot, but I didn't really like the actual crab cake because I thought it was a little too mushy for my liking.
Mom really liked the Circulator tour from the night before, so we decided to take the Orange Route "tour" after the crab cakes. Again, more interesting people, and more fun things to see. I had never been on the orange route before, so there were some new places for me to see there as well.
After this, it was starting almost 6pm. Mom said that we could go to the Artscape Festival since the sun would start to be going down. It was crazy trying to get there, but we eventually did. The festival was crazy! There were soo many people! Artscape is an art festival in Baltimore that covers about 10 blocks (two streets completely closed off) that reminds me a lot of a farmers market kind of, just with more art than vegetables (it's not like the Park City art festival). I think half of the excitement of being there was just being around all of the crazy people! It seems like everyone was drunk, and half of the people had a beer in their hand. It was seriously so crazy. I can't believe I took my mother there. We did see some really cool things there though. Everything was so expensive. There were lots of earrings that I would have bought, but an average pair cost about $30. We stayed until the sunset, and at this point we were both so tired that we knew it was time to get home! We had to wait for the bus for a while before it came, but we got home eventually.
The next morning, mom went to church with me! We rode the bus to church since the girl who normally takes me on Sundays is out of town. Mom said that it was fun to go to a ward where the Relief Society lesson was with Young Single Adults (the lesson was on marriage today too...), and she was amazed at how few people there were in my ward, too (I had to remind her this was Baltimore, not Utah). We did get a ride home though, so we didn't have to take the bus home.
We enjoyed a fancy Sunday dinner of frozen pasta before my mom had to leave to catch her flight. I walked her to the lightrail station and then left her once the train came (it was almost 20 min off schedule...) to go to the airport. It was such a sad moment to say goodbye! It was such a wonderful weekend to spend with her though. I'm so glad that she came out to see me! I love my mother so much!
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