Talking Sweet About Nothing

Last weekend Katie and I celebrated our one-year anniversary. Luckily, because we were married on May 24, our anniversary will almost always fall on or near a three-day weekend (yay Memorial Day). We spent a couple of days doing totally touristy things around Baltimore. Seeing as how our wedding was all local and independent vendors, it seemed like fun to keep the party in our hometown.

We left our car in Linthicum and took the light rail downtown. A) We didn't want to have to think about parking all weekend, and B) we had the foresight to know that we might spend a good amount of time intoxicated, so we planned on just using public transportation and/or a cab to get around. We arrived at Camden Yards right around lunch time, so we walked over to Little Italy to have lunch at Isabella's.



What a perfect start to our weekend!



Katie finally got to see what all of the fuss was about, and couldn't help but agree that this pizza is tops. I think we'd both agree that we prefer Matthew's, but Matthew's really is it's own unique meal, and as far as an authentic artisan pizza, Isabella's is a standout in an otherwise mediocre pizza town.

After lunch, we walked back to the Inner Harbor to take a harbor cruise. This is that big boat that you see docked right in front of you when your at the stop light at Conway and Light St. as you're coming into downtown. The one that boards right next to the visitor's center building. Anyway, this cruise was totally awesome. Despite the obnoxiously loud speaker with pre-recorded narration, it was really fun to float around the harbor for an hour and a half and see the city from a new perspective.



After the cruise we railed (yes, it's a verb) uptown to our B&B to check in. We stayed at this totally cute rowhome B&B called Abacrombie in Mt. Vernon.


*photo courtesy of Abacrombie

We had an amazing dinner at their restaurant on the ground floor. In addition to a good number of vegetarian options (rare at most fine dining restaurants) all of the meat and produce are sourced from local, organic farms.

On Sunday we slept late, had a relaxing breakfast, and then took off for the zoo. Sunday was the annual Brew at the Zoo, featuring regional beer and wine vendors. Ticket price includes zoo admission, plus a free tasting glass for unlimited sampling of beer and wine.



Before entering the zoo, we spent some time walking around Druid Hill Park. While there we saw this totally awesome bird called a Red Winged Blackbird. We saw tons of them. Katie got this great picture.



After our day at the zoo, we made our way home, where we had wedding cake (Sweet recreated our wedding cake top as an anniversary gift). It was just as delicious as we remembered. Yay!