Saturday - July 19

HAPPY 1ST BIRTHDAY, BLAIR

 

 

 

Our sweet birthday girl

 

Can't believe the Princess is ONE!     She's having a fun day with Mommy, Daddy, her brothers, Gram and Grand Bob at Lake James.....we are so excited that we can celebrate with

her in just 6 days!

The Birthday Cake....BEFORE

 

and AFTER...

Ohhhh, this is sooo good!

 

The whole gang joins in the fun

 

Hello from North Port Marina in Rock Hall, Maryland!     Started our day with Mark taking his bike and checking out the downtown Chestertown Farmer's Market and bringing back some yummy sticky buns from Evergrain.    Then we both walked around checking out all the produce, beautiful pastries (pies, breads, cinnamon rolls, caramel pecan rolls, and on and on.)    There were lots of artisans there with their wares - a nice display in Fountain Park (one more +++ for this neat little town).   Refrained from all the pastries (tough job) but did get some blueberries.

 

Left the marina at 10:15 and cruised  33 miles to Rock Hall.  So many pretty farms along the way and lots of boat traffic (course it's the weekend, including a big sailboat race).     No sun today, but just pleasant temps and lots of clouds.

 

Here are some pics....

Latte at "Play it Again, Sam" - cute coffee shop

Beautiful flowers outside Cornucopia where I shopped yesterday

Beautiful home in Chestertown

Several homes along this street had very low (1-step porches) built in the late 1800's 

 

Pretty flower box

 

Race on the Corsica River

 

Rock Hall has 1300+ residents and we are about 1 mile from the downtown.  Several marinas here - a happening place.   I walked and checked out some of the shops (last time we were here it was a Monday and several were closed).    Stopped at Java Rock for an iced coffee.    Mark joined me later and we walked a short jaunt to St. John's for 4:00 Mass.   Back to Catrina and had spaghetti, salad, garlic bread and wine!

 

Something that really impressed me about this little town of Rock Hall was Main Street where all the old-fashioned light poles have a banner hanging with picture of a serviceman/woman from here who are current military and listing their name, title and branch of service -  "Hometown Hero"!!!!  

 How neat is that?

Just one of many pretty flower gardens